Bubba started out with nothing and still has most of it.
BP = beaches polluted
BP needs to do the right thing and stop worrying about its public image. Same goes with the poLIEticians.
June 14th is Flag Day and the only mention in the paper is in the comics?
Bubba’s dawg ate a bunch of mayonnaise. Fearing that he would be bad sick, Bubba took him to the vet who then referred him to the …….Mayo Clinic.
I think the Big 12 just became the Big 10 and the Big 10 is now the Big 12.
According to Facebook, June 15th is Man Day. Did they get Mrs. Redneck’s permission for this?
Like everything else, in college athletics the gap between the “haves” and the “have nots” is getting greater.
Joe Barton – you are fired!
God bless America – we need it.
You Can’t Make This Stuff Up
NAPLES, Fla. (AP) – Authorities arrested a 45-year-old man accused of kicking a fast food restaurant’s door after employees threw away his wine. Maurice Alfred Belmore faces charges of criminal mischief and trespass. He was jailed in Collier County on $3,000 bond. It was unclear if Belmore had an attorney.
According to deputies, a manager of a local Sonic Drive-In told investigators that an employee threw away wine that Belmore had left in the restaurant’s parking lot. Belmore started kicking the restaurant’s door after he realized the wine was missing.
Doubt that wine was worth $3,000.
Headlines
Obama official: BP agrees to speed up oil spill payments
All you gotta do is fill out the paperwork and go to Helen Waite.
After BP cleans up oil, it has to clean up its image
It has a long, long way to go on both accounts.
BP May Lose US Oil Leases, Contracts After Spill
Ya think?
Michael Vick on his dogfighting past: ‘I never thought it was wrong’
Betcha do now.
In First Oval Office Speech, Obama Seeks to Ease Political Damage of Gulf Crisis
Really more interested in getting the physical damange cleaned up.
Redneck Joke of the Week
Bubba, Earl, and Slick were stranded on an island for several years. One day Bubba found a Lamp on the beach so he picked it up and took it to show his two friends. As he started to hand it to Earl, Slick noticed it was dirty and he rubbed the dirt off.
Suddenly there appeared a Genie, who said, “I’ve been in that lamp for centuries so I will grant you each one wish for releasing me.”
Slick said he was in the oil business in Texas and had a big beautiful ranch. He wished he could be back on his ranch. POOF! Slick was gone.
Earl said he wished he could be a millionaire on a cruise ship. POOF! Earl was gone too.
The Genie then turned to Bubba and asked, “What is your wish?” After thinking for several minutes, Bubba just couldn’t make up his mind. He suddenly blurted out, “I wish Earl and Slick were here to help me decide.”
POOF!!! Earl and Slick were back!!!
Redneck Picture of the Week
Redneck Love Seat
Racin’
Hamlin won again at Michigan. At this pace (5 wins out of the last 10 races), every driver will be getting his ACL fixed. What did the doctors do, make him the bionic driver?
Sonoma is one of the tracks where the drivers will have to turn right some of the time instead of just turning left. It is also important to stay on the track.
The picks:
Jeff Gordon
Tony Stewart
Anybody but a Busch
Ain’t True
NEW PORT RICHEY, Fla. (AP) – A 32-year-old Pasco County man who called 911 to complain about his mother is facing criminal charges. According to a sheriff’s office arrest report, Charles Dennison told a deputy that his mother took his beer and he wanted her arrested. Dennison was reportedly “very intoxicated” when the deputy arrived at the New Port Richey home.
Dennison told the deputy that he would keep calling emergency responders if his mother wasn’t charged. He has been charged with making false 911 calls and was jailed on $150 bond.
Ain’t true that it is a good idea to ever blame your mama.
Redneck Song of the Week:
Matt Stillwell: Shine
Redneck Video of the Week:
Ray Stevens – Throw the Bums Out
Redneck Education Tip of the Week:
The Other Verses of Our National Anthem
Redneck Rebel Quote of the Week:
“It only takes 20 years for a liberal to become a conservative without changing a single idea.”
- Robert Anton Wilson
We have lost a legend. Coach Wooden was nothing but class. He coached men and along the way won some championships.
Too bad that college athletics has been taken over by money and boosters. We will never see the likes of Wooden or Bear Bryant again. Winning games is everything now.
If the Big 12 breaks up, does that mean that the football refs go away too?
The conference mess is all about football revenues, but what will it do to other sports especially women’s athletics?
Now that pictures of oil soaked pelicans are hitting the papers, it is drawing on the emotions of people. Folks, don’t forget that 11 people died in this accident!
Who is in charge of the oil spill? Nobody!!!
BP Is clueless! 50+ days since the accident and nothing seems to be getting any better. No sense of urgency either. Bet there would be a better response if it was on the shores of England.
The best things in life aren’t things!
For most of the world outside of the United States, the biggest athletic event starts this week – the World Cup. I guess it makes us even since we have the World Series and nobody else in the world really cares.
God bless our troops and God bless America!
You Can’t Make This Stuff Up
An injured soldier who spent a year recovering at Joint Base Lewis-McChord said the military gave him a Purple Heart–and a bill for $3,000, KIRO-TV reports.
Former Oregon National Guard soldier Gary Pfleider told the news station that the base billed him for equipment he allegedly lost. In 2007, Pfleider was shot by a sniper in Iraq.
“I remember grabbing a hold of my leg and pulling my hands out and realizing that I had blood on my hands. And from that point on, until I got loaded onto the Stryker, was just a big blur,” Pfleider said to KIRO.
Pfleider received a Purple Heart three days after he was shot. Two years later, he got a bill from the military for missing equipment, including clothing and grenades. Pfleider contends he lost the gear when he left Iraq and shouldn’t be responsible for it now, but the federal government is taking money from his disability check each month.
JBLM officials told the news station that the base is investigating the issue.
Hate to see the bill for a fighter jet lost in combat.
Headlines
Federal response to Gulf spill rated lower than Katrina efforts
Not Bush’s fault this time.
NCAA hands USC two-year bowl game ban, major scholarship reduction in football
Slap on the wrist. Shoulda got the death penalty.
Judge dismisses Arizona charges against polygamist
Guess the judge figured the poor boy had suffered enough having more than one wife.
ROMNEY: We need a leader, not a politician…
Amen, brother and in all levels of government.
Redneck Joke of the Week
Redneck Picture of the Week
Redneck Reason There Was No Looting in Nashville Flood
Racin’
Hamlin handled Pocono and this week we are racin’ at the 2 mile Michigan International Speedway – wide and fast. It is also home to the domestic car manufacturers, so there is a sense of pride on the line. The “Cat in the Hat” used to rule here, but hasn’t won anything lately. Can this be where it starts?
The picks:
Jeff Gordon
Jimmie Johnson
Kyle Busch
Ain’t True
RIVERHEAD, N.Y. — A New York couple has taken the plunge inside a shark tank.
April Pignataro and Michael Curry were lowered in a steel cage into the tank to exchange their wedding vows at Atlantis Marine World in Riverhead, N.Y, on Sunday.
She wore a white wet suit; he wore a black one.
The experienced divers spoke their vows into radio headgear transmitted to a minister outside the tank. About 75 guests watched from behind glass.
The tank is part of the Lost City of Atlantis shark exhibit. Ain’t true that the tank was full of lawyers.
Redneck Song of the Week:
“Bless The Broken Road” – Rascal Flatts
Redneck Video of the Week:
How Not to Exit an Airport
Redneck Education Tip of the Week:
“Southern Mama Wisdom for Grads”
(That the Rest of Y’all Should Know, Too)
Remember what you learned in Sunday school. Joy is found by putting Jesus first, others second, and yourself last.
Look people in the eye when they’re talking to you.
Take good care of the family name.
The world doesn’t owe you a living. Pull your britches up and get to work.
If you don’t have it, don’t spend it.
Don’t believe everything you hear. Trust and verify is a good idea across the board.
And in closing, graduates, don’t let your mouth overload your butt.
Redneck Rebel Quote of the Week:
“Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.”
- Thomas A. Edison
Bubba says that we all get heavier as we get older because there’s a lot more information in our heads. So he’s not fat, he’s just really intelligent & his head couldn’t hold more
I think that Oklahoma in Native American for “we always got our roads tore up”.
Ever notice that those folks with the fancy cars loaded with all the techno stuff are the least likely to use those things called a turn signal.
Feel for Armando Galarraga whose perfect game was busted by a terrible call by an ump with two out in the ninth. Bummer…………. At least the ump admitted blowing the call. Galarraga showed true class.
If you can’t take the heat, stay out of Texas!
Stop the oil spill by stuffing BP executives into the leaking pipe.
Mr. T pities the fool….(you get to insert your own – don’t worry there are plenty to go around)
At the National Spelling Bee, those young people are spelling without spell checker. How do they do it?
Pray for the troops, y’all!
You Can’t Make This Stuff Up
Maserati owner collected welfare benefits
LOS ANGELES, May 28 (UPI) — A Cerritos, Calif., woman was charged with welfare fraud for receiving more than $60,000 in benefits while hiding assets including a Maserati, officials say.
Tangela Ridgeway, 35, was arrested with eight others this week in a massive welfare fraud sweep for receiving benefits while concealing ownership of a home, business, a Nissan SUV, the upscale 2006 sports car
and other vehicles, the Los Angeles Times reported Friday.
The Los Angeles County district attorney’s office says she is charged with 16 counts of welfare fraud including aid by misrepresentation and perjury by false application for aid, and 14 counts of perjury by declaration.
In court Friday Ridgeway’s bail was set at $395,000. If convicted, she faces a maximum term of 19 years in state prison, the Times said.
Headlines
Al and Tipper Gore to separate after 40 years
Who would have ever thunk that the Clinton’s marriage would have outlasted the Gores?
Groups want FCC to police hate speech on talk radio, cable news networks…
Because we “hate” what they are doing and say so
$11 million slot jackpot a malfunction, casino says
Folks didn’t get the money. And you think losing a perfect game on a blown call was bad……………
Is the Government Trying to Take Over the News?
Along with everything else……………….
Redneck Joke of the Week
The boss of a big company needed to call one of his employees about an
urgent problem with one of the main computers. He dialed the employee’s
home phone number and was greeted with a child’s whispered, “Hello?”
Feeling put out at the inconvenience of having to talk to a youngster
the boss asked,” Is your Daddy home?”
“Yes”, whispered the small voice. “May I talk with him?” the man asked.
To the surprise of the boss, the small voice whispered, “No.”
Wanting to talk with an adult, the boss asked,” Is your Mommy there?”
“Yes”, came the answer. “May I talk with her?” Again
the small voice whispered, “no”.
Knowing that it was not likely that a young child would be left home
alone, the boss decided he would just leave a message with the person
who should be there watching over the child. “Is there anyone there
besides you?” the boss asked the child.
“Yes” whispered the child, “A policeman”. Wondering what a cop would be
doing at his employee’s home, the boss asked “May I speak with the
policeman”?
“No, he’s busy”, whispered the child.” Busy doing
what?, asked the boss. “Talking to Daddy and Mommy and the Fireman”,
came the whispered answer.
Growing concerned and even worried as he heard what sounded like a
helicopter through the ear piece on the phone the boss asked, “What is
that noise?”
“A hello-copper”, answered the whispering voice. “What is going on
there?”, asked the boss, now alarmed.
In an awed whispering voice the child answered, “The search team just
landed the hello-copper”
Alarmed, concerned and more than just a little frustrated the boss
asked, “Why are they there”?
Still whispering, the young voice replied along with a muffled giggle:
“They’re looking for me”
Redneck Picture of the Week
Might Get Mrs. Redneck to Camp If I Did This,
(But how long of an extension cord would that take?)
Racin’
Well a Busch bro won the Coke 600. Rats! This week the good ol’ boys tangle with the tricky triangle of Pocono.
The Picks:
Denny Hamlin
Tony “Smoke” Stewart
Anybody but a Busch
Ain’t True
SISSONVILLE, W.Va. – Kanawha County authorities said a marital spat over a late dinner has landed a man in jail on an arson charge.
Lt. Sean Crosier of the Sheriff’s Department said 60-year-old Guy Edward Jones came home Sunday and got angry because his wife, Beverly Jones, didn’t have dinner on the table.
Crosier said the couple fought and Beverly Jones ran to a neighbor’s house. Crosier said she turned and saw flames coming out of the basement and her husband exiting through the basement door.
Guy Jones was in the South Central Regional Jail on Monday afternoon in lieu of $50,000 bond. It could not be determined whether he had a lawyer.
Ain’t true around here. I have dinner ready every night so Mrs. Redneck don’t set no fires.
Redneck Song of the Week:
Ray Stevens – We The People
Redneck Video of the Week:
Red Bull – Akte Blanix II (Connecting flight)
Redneck Education Tip of the Week:
Balloon Daredevil Crosses English Channel
(or how to beat those stupid airline fees)
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Redneck Rebel Quote of the Week:
“There’s no trick to being a humorist when you have the whole government working for you.”
- Will Rogers
I get really irritated at baseball’s all-star voting. Taylor Teagarden, the Ranger’s catcher, has 108,000 votes and is 4th in the voting for catchers in the American League. He is in the minors after getting just one hit and batting .037. Vote for true all-stars that are performing this year!
The stock market charts look like an EKG. I just hope it doesn’t flat line.
North Korea just severed all ties with South Korea. Like the ties that they had meant anything.
Scariest thing I have heard in a while – BP says it is doing all it can.
Seems like everyone is blaming everyone instead of concentrating on fixin’ the problem.
Think inflation is coming! In the first 220 years of recorded financial records of the USA (i.e., 1789-2008), the nation had cumulative deficits of $5.3 trillion (i.e., outlays in excess of receipts). The combined deficits in the 3 years of 2009-10-11 (i.e., the actual deficit of $1.4 trillion in 2009 plus the government’s projected deficits in 2010 and 2011) are estimated to reach $4.2 trillion (source: White House).
Something just ain’t right about building a mosque at the site of the World Trade Center.
Somebody said that Obama finally admitted he was wrong about something. He said that he was wrong about thinking the oil industry was prepared for an accident. This will happen when Willie Nelson cuts his hair. Hey, wait…………
Memorial Day – the day we remember those that gave all so that we can have our freedom.
You Can’t Make This Stuff Up
Miami Company Creates “Gringo Masks” for Illegals
By TODD WRIGHT
Updated 10:11 AM EDT, Tue, May 25, 2010
If you are looking for a way to beat Arizona’s new immigration law, look no further than Miami’s new Gringo Masks.
The new product, brainchild of Miami advertising agency Zubi Advertising, guarantees the cops won’t be stopping you or your loved ones after you put your best white face forward.
The product is simple. Choose from a cut out of a blue-eyed, sandy hair-colored white guy or a green-eyed, blond haired white woman.
Cut the face to fit yours. Poke out the eyes. And presto! You don’t look like a “suspicious, potentially illegal” alien. Rubber band or green card not included.
Headlines
More older Americans start own businesses
Duh!.They were the ones most affected by the layoffs and older folks aren’t being hired.for the new jobs.
PRIVATE PAY PLUMMETS, GOVT HANDOUTS SOAR
Just like liberals like it.
Obama Approval Falls to New Low: 42%…
Surprised that he still has that many people fooled.
Obama: Government is in charge of oil disaster response:
Now I’m scared……..
Redneck Joke of the Week
Here’s a story that could’ve easily played out in any small town where
everybody knows everybody and they all know more than they should
about their neighbors. We’ll just say it happened in a courthouse
somewhere in the South and leave it at that. The way I heard it, a small-
town prosecuting attorney called his first witness, an elderly grandmother
type to the stand.
Once she was sworn in the attorney approached her and asked, “Mrs.
Jones, do you know me?”
Mrs. Jones rolled her eyes. “Why, yes, I do know you, Mr. Williams I’ve
known you since you were a young boy, and frankly, you’ve been a big
disappointment to me. I’m glad your granddaddy didn’t live to see this
day. You lie, you cheat on your wife, you manipulate people and talk
about them behind their backs. You think you’re a big shot when you
haven’t the brains to realize you’ll never amount to anything but a two-bit
paper pusher. Yes, I’d say I know you.” The lawyer was stunned! The
courtroom was silent. Not knowing what else to do, he pointed across
the room and asked, “Mrs. Jones, do you know the defense attorney?”
She again replied, “Of course. I’ve known Mr. Bradley since he was a
youngster, too. He’s lazy, bigoted, and he has a drinking problem. He
can’t build a normal relationship with anyone and his law practice is one
of the worst in the entire state. Not to mention he cheated on his wife
with three different women and the last one was your wife. Yes, I know
him.”
The defense attorney likta died. Before anyone had a chance to
recover the judge asked both counselors to approach the bench, and
in a very, very quiet voice he said, “If either of you asks her if she
knows me, I will throw both of you in jail!”
Redneck Picture of the Week
Another Use for Duct Tape
Racin’
The Coca Cola 600 is a marathon and the longest race of the year. It is a real test of the drivers, crews, and cars.
The picks:
Jimmie “I Own Charlotte Motor Speedway” Johnson
Kasey “Pretty Boy” Kahne
Martin Truex, Jr. – the other Martin and the other Jr.
Ain’t True
PHILADELPHIA — Airline officials are trying to figure out how a sleeping passenger was left aboard a flight for four hours after it landed in Philadelphia.
According to police and the Transportation Security Administration, the passenger didn’t wake up when her United Express flight from Dulles airport outside Washington landed shortly after midnight Tuesday. At about 4 a.m., a cleaning crew found her.
United Airlines says they’re working with a regional partner carrier to determine why the plane wasn’t cleared upon landing.
Ain’t true that the airline has to pay a $21,000 fine for violating the 3 hour rule.
Redneck Song of the Week:
SEVEN BRIDGES ROAD
Redneck Video of the Week:
Memorial Day – Arlington (Trace Adkins)
Redneck Education Tip of the Week:
It is
the VETERAN,
not the preacher,
who has given us freedom of religion.
It is
the VETERAN,
not the reporter,
who has given us freedom of the press.
It is
the VETERAN,
not the poet,
who has given us freedom of speech.
It is
the VETERAN,
not the campus organizer,
who has given us freedom to assemble.
It is
the VETERAN,
not the lawyer,
who has given us the right to a fair trial.
It is
the VETERAN,
not the politician,
Who has given us the right to vote.
It is the
VETERAN who
salutes the Flag,
It is
the
VETERAN
who serves
under the Flag,
Redneck Rebel Quote of the Week:
“Not everything that is faced can be changed. But nothing can be changed until it is faced.”
? James Arthur Baldwin
Bubba was last seen heading to the Horizon well in the gulf armed with duct tape and tie wraps.
The way the healthcare law is written it is much cheaper for many employers to pay the tax penalty than it is to offer health insurance to their employees. For example, AT&T spent $4.7 billion on medical costs but would have been taxed a much lower amount ($600 million) for not offering their 1.2 million employees, retirees, and their dependents’ health care benefits – a savings of $4.1 billion for the company. Think the law was written this way to drive everybody to gummit healthcare?
Hey Mr. Weatherman, this 20% chance of rain is flooding our street!
President Obama signed the Press Freedom Act, and then promptly refused to take any questions. Such irony!
I used to work all day and not think about it. Now if I think about work, I have to sit down and rest.
Don’t you just love the story about the shortstop that is paid over $ 10 million a year that was benched for not hustling on two plays. Now he is lashing out at his manager and refuses to apologize to his teammates. Go get a real job, Ramirez!
Hey poLIEticians! Can you hear us now? Anti-incumbent movement is working. Specter and Sestak are the latest to go. And this is just the primaries. Wait until November!!
What is it with this “I mis-spoke” business? You lied, dude!
Pray for our troops and may God bless America!
You Can’t Make This Stuff Up
BALTIMORE, May 15 (UPI) — Some residents of Baltimore’s Scarlett Place are balking at a plan to test every dog’s DNA to find the animal responsible for leaving poop at the upscale condo.
“It’s absolutely ridiculous,” said attorney Richard Hopp, who has lived in the condominium since 2006 with his dog Sparky. Hopp likened a plan to charge dog owners and guests with dogs $50 each to cover the DNA test and supplies to an episode of “Seinfeld.”
Dog owners would also be charged $10 per month to pay for collection of the poop by the building’s staff. The resident not cleaning up behind an offending dog would be fined $500.
The Scarlett Place condo board will vote on whether to mandate the doggy DNA testing at a hearing Wednesday, the Baltimore Sun reported.
“Some people think it’s funny. But you know, this seems to be a reasonable objective to say, ‘This is your poop, you’re responsible,’” Steve Frans, a condo board member, told the Sun.
Headlines
STUDY: Babies know difference between good and evil — at six months…
Unfortunately we seem to grow out of that.
OBAMA POINTS FINGER AT FINGER POINTERS…
Only because they are beginning to point at him.
Daily stress and worry plummet after age 50
Really plummet after retirement!
Napolitano Defends Spill Response: Gov’t has ‘limited capability and expertise’…
In any area……..
Redneck Joke of the Week
A redneck walks into a bar and says to the bartender (with a drunken slur), “Bartender, buy everyone in the house a drink, pour yourself one, and give me the bill.”
So, the bartender does just that and hands the man a bill for $57.00.
The redneck says, “I haven’t got it.”
The bartender slaps the guy around a few times then throws him out into the street.
The very next day the same redneck walks into the bar and once again says
(with a drunken slur), “Bartender, buy everyone in the house a drink, pour yourself one, and give me the bill.”
The bartender looks at the guy and figures to himself that he can’t possibly be stupid enough to pull the same trick twice, so he gives him the benefit of the doubt, pours a round of drinks for the house, has a drink himself and hands
the redneck a bill for $67.00. The redneck says, “I haven’t got it.”
The bartender can’t believe it. He picks the guy up, beats the living daylights out of him, then throws him out into the street.
The next day the same redneck walks back into the same bar and says (with a drunken slur), “Bartender, buy everyone in the house a drink, give me the bill.”
In disgust, the bartender says, “What, no drink for me this time?”
The redneck replies, “you!!?? No Way!
You get too violent when you drink.
Redneck Picture of the Week
Redneck Extended Cab Pickup
Racin’
This is the week of the No race – no points, no friends, no holes barred, no coming in second – NASCAR All-Star Race at Charlotte Motor Speedway. It’s checkers or wreckers. Fun race!!
The picks:
Kyle Busch
Kurt Busch
Kasey Kahne
Ain’t True
Man charged with faking his way into Harvard
WOBURN, Mass. — A Delaware man has been charged with faking his way into Harvard and duping the Ivy League school out of $45,000 in financial aid, grants and scholarships.
Adam Wheeler, 23, of Milton, Del., was admitted to Harvard and became a student in 2007 after he falsely claimed he had earned a perfect academic record at Phillips Academy in Andover and had studied for a year at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, prosecutors said Monday.
Ultimately, authorities said, Wheeler’s attempts to be an overachiever were his undoing: Harvard started to look into Wheeler’s background after he sought the school’s endorsement for Rhodes and Fulbright scholarships. A professor reviewing his application noticed similarities between Wheeler’s writing and that of a colleague, prosecutors said.
Wheeler was indicted on 20 offenses, including larceny, identity fraud and pretending to hold a degree. He was scheduled to be arraigned Tuesday in Middlesex Superior Court.
Wheeler, who was studying English, was trying to transfer to Yale and Brown when he got caught in the “web of lies and deceit,” Middlesex County District Attorney Gerry Leone said.
“This defendant’s actions cheated those who competed honestly and fairly for admissions and for the scholarships that this defendant fraudulently obtained,” Leone said.
A number listed to Adam Wheeler in Milton, Del., had been disconnected. Leone’s office did not know whether he had a lawyer.
In January, authorities say, Wheeler submitted transfer applications to Yale and Brown. In his applications, Wheeler said he was employed by McLean Hospital, a psychiatric facility affiliated with Harvard, even though he was not, Leone said. His transfer application included faked recommendations from an employee at the hospital and from his former Harvard dean, Leone said.
Harvard released a statement saying it could not discuss individual cases because of federal privacy laws and referred all questions to the Middlesex District Attorney’s office.
Before attending Harvard, Wheeler was a student at Bowdoin College in Maine from 2005-07, but was suspended for academic dishonesty, authorities said.
Ain’t true that he is running for President in 2012.
Redneck Song of the Week:
Craig Morgan – This Ain’t Nothin’
Redneck Video of the Week:
Redneck Solution for Oil Spill
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Redneck Education Tip of the Week:
Things Aren’t What They Seem Sometimes
Redneck Rebel Quote of the Week:
“The only difference I ever found between the Democratic leadership and the Republican leadership is that one of them is skinning you from the ankle up and the other, from the neck down.”
Bubba is celebrating Mother’s Day too since he says he has been called a mother a lot this year.
Y’all who don’t like the Arizona Immigration Law, change it. Until then, the state has the right to enforce the law.
Most don’t like the idea of profiling. Well, I get “profiled” for my senior discounts all the dang time. If you obey the law, you don’t have anything to worry ‘bout.
Wonder if you could invent a spam filter for snail mail?
Now that phone books are obsolete, we have been getting them from every company that prints them. What a waste.
I hope it is just a rumor that a stock trader’s typo of b for billion instead of m for million caused the stock market to go down a thousand points. The thought of my small fortune being in the hands of a fat thumbed trader is just too much to bear.
We reached a new low when four boys in California were sent home from high school on Cinco de Mayo Day because they wore “American Flag” shirts.
If the price of oil keeps going up, some of them Cajuns will be out in their piroguesscooping it up off of the Gulf.
Y’all pray for our troops!
You Can’t Make This Stuff Up
‘Lord Jesus Christ’ Run Over In Mass. Crosswalk
NORTHAMPTON (AP) ?
The victim has probably forgiven the woman who ran him down in a Northampton crosswalk.
The police haven’t.
Police say a Pittsfield woman has been cited for running down Lord Jesus Christ as he crossed the street in Northampton.
Officers responding to Tuesday’s incident checked the 50-year-old Belchertown man’s ID and discovered that, indeed, Lord Jesus Christ is his legal name.
He was taken to the hospital for treatment of minor facial injuries.
Police say 20-year-old Brittany Cantarella was cited for failing to yield to a pedestrian in a crosswalk.
Headlines
Group aims to stop spread of deadly bat disease
Hope they find a cure soon. There is a pandemic in the Texas Rangers’ dugout.
Fire blazes through Maine meat plant
Dinner’s ready!
Psychiatrists: Global warming fears seen in 28% of obsessive compulsive disorder patients…
Does this mean you are mentally ill if you believe in global warming?
Dallas ISD blog: No support at the top for a return to paddling bottoms
Until they do the inmates will run the asylum.
Redneck Joke of the Week
Bubba’s pregnant sister was in a bad car accident, which caused her to fall into a deep coma.
After nearly six months, she awoke and saw that she was no longer pregnant. Frantically, she asked the doctor about her baby.
The doctor replied, ”Ma’am, you had twins – a boy and a girl.”
“The babies are fine. Your brother came in and named them. “
The woman thought to herself, “Oh, no! Not Bubba; he’s an idiot!” Expecting the worst, she asks the doctor, ”Well, what’s the girl’s name?”
“Denise,” the doctor answers.
The new mother says, “Wow! That’s a beautiful name; maybe I was wrong about my brother. I really like the name ‘Denise.’ What’s the boy’s name?”
The doctor replies, “Denephew.”
Redneck Picture of the Week
Redneck Trike Outside of Wal-Mart
Racin’
Another great race in Richmond, although I wish somebody other than Kyle Busch would have won it. This week is the Southern 500 in Darlington, The Lady in Black, the track too tough to tame.
The picks:
Kyle Busch – using reverse logic here. Everybody I picks usually does bad
Jeff Gordon – been close, but no cigar.
Jeff Burton
Ain’t True
FARMINGTON, Maine – A forecast of sunny skies in April in Farmington, Maine, seems like the perfect time to put the top down. But a drive in an open-air convertible isn’t what female residents have in mind.
On Friday, nearly two dozen women marched topless through the college town to protest a double-standard that allows men to take off their shirts on a hot summer day.
It’s already legal for women to bare their chests in public in Maine. But the protesters want it to also become socially acceptable.
Friday’s event was organized by University of Maine at Farmington student Andrea Simoneau. She participated in a similar event earlier this month in Portland and decided to try it in Farmington.
Ain’t true that the cops looked the other way on this one.
Redneck Song of the Week:
Josh Thompson – Way Out Here
Redneck Video of the Week:
FROM THE RED GREEN SHOW – BEER HOLDERS
Redneck Education Tip of the Week:
“10 Poorest US Cities”
City, State, % of People Below the Poverty Level
1. Detroit , MI 32.5%
2. Buffalo , NY 29.9%
3. Cincinnati , OH 27.8%
4. Cleveland , OH 27.0%
5. Miami , FL 26.9%
5. St. Louis , MO 26.8%
7. El Paso , TX 26.4%
8. Milwaukee , WI 26.2%
9. Philadelphia , PA 25.1%
10. Newark , NJ 24.2%
U.S. Census Bureau, 2006 American Community Survey, August 2007
What do the top ten cities (over 250,000) with the highest poverty rate all have in common?
Detroit, MI (1st on the poverty rate list) hasn’t elected a Republican mayor since 1961;
Buffalo, NY (2nd) hasn’t elected one since 1954;
Cincinnati, OH (3rd)…since 1984;
Cleveland, OH (4th)…since 1989;
Miami, FL (5th) has never had a Republican mayor;
St. Louis, MO (6th)…..since 1949;
El Paso, TX (7th) has never had a Republican mayor;
Milwaukee, WI (8th)…since 1908;
Philadelphia, PA (9th)…since 1952;
Newark, NJ (10th)…since 1907.
Einstein once said, ‘The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.’
It is the poor who habitually elect Democrats—yet they are still POOR !
Bubba’s weather rock blew away. Must be a little windy.
I saw a car hold up another car in a construction zone for maybe 5 seconds. The second driver blared on the horn, bumped the back of the other car, and flipped the bird. Think we have lost all civility.
It’s about we not just about me.
I am getting motion sickness from the stock market again.
The Arizona immigration law thing is because the state is sick and tired of footing the bill for illegal aliens. Illegal is the key word here.
Want to stop illegals from crossing the border – stop the jobs and the free give away programs.
Bubba wants to be a pro at procrastination. He will start maybe next week.
The news was talking about the Big Slick and I thought they were talking about Obama.
Does Toyota have a model that hasn’t been recalled?
Find it amusing that Congress is accusing the financial companies of lying and misleading. Takes one to know one.
God bless our troops!
You Can’t Make This Stuff Up
COLUMBIA, Tenn. (AP) — A Middle Tennessee horseback rider was jailed after being charged with running into a crowd of people at the Mule Day festivities in Columbia. The man, 32, was charged with two counts of reckless endangerment and public intoxication.
According to The Daily Herald of Columbia, witnesses told investigators that the man rode the horse Saturday into a restricted area that had been closed to animal traffic at the county park and was asking pedestrians for beer. A Maury County sheriff’s report said the man dismounted and then attempted to get back on, spooking it.
Two people were then hit by the horse, and one required hospital treatment. Bond was set at $10,500.
Real life story of being drunk on his ass.
Headlines
Obama Earth Day Flights Burned More Than 9,000 Gallons Of Fuel…
Eco-friendly? Please if you are going to talk the talk then walk the walk.
Geithner: ‘I Never Had A Real Job’…
And neither have your buddies in this administration. Still don’t……….
Turkey population ruffles feathers in urban areas
Especially the turkeys in DC.
‘This Is Alabama. We Speak English’
Well sorta English. We call it Southern English.
Redneck Joke of the Week
Four men were bragging about how smart their dogs were.
One man was an engineer, the second man was an accountant, the third man was a chemist, and the fourth was a government worker.
To show off, the engineer called to his dog. “T-square, do your stuff.” T-square trotted over to a desk, took out some paper and a pen, and promptly drew a circle, a square, and a triangle.
Everyone agreed that that that was pretty smart.
The accountant said that his dog could do better. He called to his dog and said,
“Spreadsheet, do your stuff.” Spreadsheet went out into the kitchen and returned with a dozen cookies. He divided them into four equal piles of three cookies each.
Everyone agreed that that was good.
The chemist said that his dog could do better still. He called to his dog and said, “Measure, do your stuff.” Measure got up, walked over to the fridge, took out a quart of milk, got a ten-ounce glass from the cupboard, and poured exactly eight ounces without spilling a drop.
Everyone agreed that that was pretty impressive.
Then the three men turned to the government worker and said, “What can your dog do?”
The government worker called to his dog and said, “Coffee Break, do your stuff.”
Coffee Break jumped to his feet, ate the cookies, drank the milk, claimed he had injured his back while doing so, filed a grievance report for unsafe working conditions, put in for worker’ compensation, and went home for the rest of the day on sick leave.
They all agreed that that was brilliant!
Redneck Picture of the Week
Racin’
After the thrilling finish at Dega last week that got Harvick happy again, it is off to Richmond, a fast ¾ mile short track.
The picks:
Hobblin’ Homeboy Hamlin
Jr.
Clint Bowyer
Anybody but Kyle Busch
Ain’t True
While economy crumbled, top financial watchdogs at SEC surfed for porn
At the SEC, all they thought about was SEX.
The country’s top financial watchdogs turned out to be horndogs who spent hours gawking at porn Web sites as the economy teetered on the brink, according to a memo released Thursday night.
The shocking findings include Securities and Exchange Commission senior staffers using government computers to browse for booty and an accountant who tried to access the raunchy sites 16,000 times in one month.
Their titillating pastime was discovered during 33 probes of employees looking at explicit images in the past five years, said the memo obtained by The Associated Press.
It says 31 of those probes occurred in the 2-1/2 years since the country’s financial system nearly crashed.
The report was written by SEC Inspector General David Kotz in response to a request from Sen. Charles Grassley (R-Iowa).
Among the startling findings:
- A senior attorney at the SEC’s Washington headquarters spent up to eight hours a day looking at and downloading pornography. When his government computer ran out of hard drive space, he burned the files to CDs or DVDs. He later agreed to resign.
- An accountant was blocked more than 16,000 times in a single month from visiting “sex” or “pornography” sites, but still managed to amass a collection of “very graphic” material by using Google to bypass the SEC’s internal filter. He wound up with a 2-week suspension.
- Seventeen of the randy employees were “at a senior level” earning salaries of up to $222,418.
- The number of cases jumped from two in 2007 to 16 in 2008. The cracks in the financial system emerged in mid-2007 and spread into full-blown panic by the fall of 2008.
California Rep. Darrell Issa, the top Republican on the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, said it was “disturbing that high-ranking officials within the SEC were spending more time looking at porn than taking action to help stave off the events that put our nation’s economy on the brink of collapse.” An SEC spokesman declined to comment last night.
You would think that they all got fired. Ain’t true!
Bubba says that if everything is comin’ your way, then you are in the wrong lane!!
Retired, Earned it, Living it, Loving it
Ever noticed that you keep stuff for years and throw it away just before you need it?
Since Tiger moved from Buddism to Bootyism, he ain’t playing as good.
Now that you done paid your taxes, do you feel like you got your money’s worth?
Wish that Toyota would recall Kyle Busch’s car?
Did all the cabinet members pay their taxes this year? Just checking…
How do all those telemarketers always call everybody just as they sit down to eat?
Best T-Shirt of race weekend at Texas Muddy Speedway:
I’d rather have a daughter in a whorehouse as to have a son that is a Kyle Busch fan
Y’all pray for the troops!
You Can’t Make This Stuff Up
Police find suspect neck-deep in liquid manure pit
The Associated Press
ALBION, Ind. — Police said that officers searching for a man wanted on methamphetamine charges found him hiding neck-deep in a liquid manure pit at a northeastern Indiana farm. Noble County sheriff’s deputies thought they’d lost the man until an officer spotted him in the tank beneath an outbuilding floor on the farm near Albion.
Chief Deputy Doug Harp said the man, 52, had been neck-deep in the combination of hog and dog feces for at least an hour Tuesday evening. He later became combative and had to be shocked twice with a stun gun.
The suspect was treated at a hospital for hypothermia before he being taken to jail.
A Steuben County magistrate on Wednesday ordered the suspect held without bail because he missed court hearings in February and March.
Headlines
ARIZONA POLICE TO BEGIN ARRESTING ILLEGALS…
‘Bout time we started arresting people that break the law.
Clinton sees danger in angry anti-government rhetoric…
He sees a lot of poLIEticians losing their jobs.
3D-TV health warning: Tuning in ‘can cause confusion, nausea and even fits’…
That’s because of the programs, not the 3D-TV.
Pew Poll: Trust In Government Hits Near-Historic Low
Wonder how that happened?
Redneck Joke of the Week
A little boy wanted $100.00 very badly and prayed for weeks, but nothing happened. Then he decided to write God a letter requesting the $100.00.
When the postal authorities received the letter to God, USA, they decided to send it to the President.
The president was so amused that he instructed his secretary to send the little boy a $5.00 bill. The president thought this would appear to be a lot of money to a little boy.
The little boy was delighted with the $5.00 bill and sat down to write a thank-you note to God, which read:
Dear God: Thank you very much for sending the money. However, I noticed that for some reason you sent it through Washington, D.C., and, as usual, those turkeys deducted $95.00 in taxes.
Redneck Picture of the Week
Coulda Used One of These at Texas Muddy Speedway Last Weekend
Racin’
Limpin’ Denny Hamlin cowboyed up to win the Samsung Mobile 500 at Texas Muddy Speedway on Monday. Rumor is that all the drivers are going to get their ACLs operated on.
This week we are Alabama bound to the restrictor track at Talladega. The picks:
Dale Jr.
Kurt Busch
Anybody but Kyle Busch
Ain’t True
COLUMBUS, Ohio — Two cows got loose on the Ohio State University campus, leading some students to skip classes to watch a roundup that lasted more than 90 minutes.
Police say the pair of Belted Galloway cows got away Wednesday afternoon as their owner was trying to take them into the university’s veterinary medical center to have their hooves trimmed.
They made their way onto a soccer field, where one of them was lassoed as students cheered “Ole!”
The other ran across traffic on a bridge and settled in under a grove of trees. It was caught after a Columbus Zoo veterinarian hit it with a tranquilizer dart.
The owner took the cows back home. A police officer was treated for a shoulder injury.
Ain’t true that this would have happened at a real agricultural school. The students would have been riding them.
Redneck Song of the Week:
Alan Jackson – Remember When
Redneck Video of the Week:
Obama Says: “Whether We Like it Or Not, We Remain a Dominant Military Superpower”
Redneck Education Tip of the Week:
TMS Nation in the Pits- Texas Motor Speedway
Redneck Rebel Quote of the Week:
“An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.”
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Bubba heard that you are what you eat. He is now eating only rich foods.
Gas prices are up. Must be to benefit Obama’s rich oil buddies.
One lesson from retirement: working is lots more enjoyable when you wanna versus when you gotta.
Sure hope the jet dryers don’t lead the most laps this weekend at Texas Motor Speedway.
Bubba used to eat natural foods until he realized that most people die of natural causes.
Congrats to Phil for winning the Masters, but I am not about to say that this was a victory for the family man. Call me a cynic, but you just never know anymore.
Gotta love the airlines. First, they charge for checking a bag, so you carry-on, which they get no money and there is no room to stow it. Now Spirit wants to charge for carry-ons too. And you wonder why people hate to travel?
Just filed my federal taxes. I paid one heck of a lot less taxes than two years ago. Wanna know the secret? Retirement!
Ol’ Big Ben from the Steelers has been saved twice now for his indiscretions. Don’t think that the third time will be the charm. Note to Ben: keep your willy zipped.
We are the home of the free because of the brave. God bless our troops!
You Can’t Make This Stuff Up
Pornographic magazine for the blind launched
A pornographic magazine for the blind has been launched – complete with explicit text and raised pictures of naked men and women.
The book, the brainchild of Lisa Murphy and called Tactile Minds, is designed to be ‘enjoyed’ by the blind and visually impaired – and is on sale for £150.
Among the 17 raised images include a naked woman in a ‘disco pose’, a woman with ‘perfect breasts’ and a ‘male love robot’.
Canadian Lisa says that she made the book to fill a gap in the market, adding: “There are no books of tactile pictures of nudes for adults.
“We’re breaking new ground. Playboy has an edition with Braille wording, but there are no pictures.”
She said that she made the book after realizing that the ‘blind have been left out in a culture saturated with sexual images’.
Between 1970 and 1985 Playboy printed copies of its famous magazine in Braille – but without raised pictures.
Headlines
Dow ends at 11,000 for first time in 18 months
Must be Bush’s fault.
Kyrgyz president ‘offers to resign’
Maybe this is the start of a trend.
Obama’s disregard for media reaches new heights at nuclear summit
Better be careful there Barak. They are support you. If they turn against you, you will be like Bush.
Gore: ‘What is your reaction to Arctic ice increasing?’
It’s Bush’s fault.
Redneck Joke of the Week
A cowboy from Texas attends a social function where Barack Obama is trying to gather support for his Health Plan. Once he discovers the cowboy is from President Bush’s home area, he starts to belittle him by talking in a southern drawl and single syllable words.
As he was doing that, he kept swatting at some flies that were buzzing around his head. The cowboy says, “Y’all havin’ some problem with them circle flies?”
Obama stopped talking and said, “Well, yes, if that’s what they’re called, but I’ve never heard of circle flies.”
“Well, sir,” the cowboy replies, “Circle flies hang around ranches. They’re called circle flies because they’re almost always found circling around the back end of a horse.”
“Oh,” Obama replies as he goes back to rambling.
But, a moment later he stops and bluntly asks, “Are you calling me a horse’s ass?”
“No, sir,” the cowboy replies, “I have too much respect for the citizens of this country to call their president a horse’s ass.”
“That’s a good thing,” Obama responds and begins rambling on once more.
After a long pause, the cowboy, in his best Texas drawl says,
“Hard to fool them flies, though.”
Redneck Picture of the Week
Have a motorcycle without an engine. How about a running Ford Escort with T-bone-itis? Need to get you’re 80s three-wheeler trailered somewhere? Boy have we got a solution for you. Feast your eyes on this camouflaged Escort trike.
his beast was spotted in Amite county Mississippi, where curious onlookers couldn’t help but gape in a combination of awe, wonder, and fear. The builder is no-doubt a strong contender for the upcoming Redneck of the Year Awards, and rightly so, it takes a certain kind of genius to chop the entire center section of a Ford escort out, weld the front and back together, then affix a motorcycle frame to the front end. Not only is this thing put together with a disturbingly high level of quality, it’s probably pretty fast too — note the spoiler on the hood/trunk to keep things stable.
The entire picture is complete when the owner and his significant other come out to take off. Trailer full of three-wheeler in tow. That right there folks is American ingenuity at its finest.
Racin’
Rocket Ryan Newman returned to the winners circle in Phoenix last week saving us from Kyle Busch winning another one. Now it is a home race for us here in Texas. The new spoiler will be truly tested at high speed in traffic. Let’s just hope we don’t hear the dreaded words “aero push”.
The picks:
Matt “The Brat” Kenseth
Mark “Old Man” Martin
Kevin “Happy” Harvick
Ain’t True
Man flies above N.C. in balloon chair
SANFORD, N.C., April 13 (UPI) — A North Carolina man traveled about 50 miles across the state during his trip in a chair attached to about 40 helium balloons.
Jonathan Trappe, a member of the Wings of Carolina Flying Club in Sanford, departed Saturday afternoon from the Sanford-Lee County airport in the specialized cluster balloon chair as part of an event for the club, the Raleigh (N.C.) News & Observer reported Tuesday.
WRAL-TV, Raleigh, said Trappe, who reached a top altitude of 7,000 feet, landed shortly after 7 a.m. Sunday in Fremont, N.C.
“Flying a gas balloon is unlike any other experience. There is no sound. No propellers, no jet engines. No burner, no heart-thumping rotors of a helicopter. Not even the wind that gliders experience. This is true, silent flight,” Trappe wrote on ClusterBalloon.com.
Trappe complied with Federal Aviation Administration rules during his flight by bringing along two-way aircraft radios, an altitude encoding transponder that caused his craft to appear on radar, a GPS device, an emergency locator beacon and other safety equipment.
The Wings of Carolina Flying Club said Trappe is planning a cluster balloon flight above the English Channel during the summer months.
Ain’t true that he charged a fee for luggage.
Redneck Song of the Week:
Can’t Take My Eyes Off You – Lady Antebellum
Redneck Video of the Week:
Texas Stadium Demolition & Implosion
Redneck Education Tip of the Week:
IDIOT SIGHTINGS
We had to have the garage door repaired. The Sears repairman told us that
one of our problems was that we did not have a ‘large’ enough motor on the opener. I thought for a minute, and said that we had the largest one Sears made at that time, a 1/2 horsepower. He shook his head and said, ‘Lady, you need a 1/4 horsepower.’ I responded that 1/2 was larger than 1/4. He said, ‘NO, it’s not.’ Four is larger than two.’ We haven’t used Sears repair since.
My daughter and I went through the McDonald’s take-out window and I gave the clerk a $5 bill. Our total was $4.25, so I also handed her a quarter. She said, ‘You gave me too much money.’ I said, ‘Yes I know, but this way you can just give me a dollar bill back. She sighed and went to get the manager, who asked me to repeat my request. I did so, and he handed me back the quarter, and said ‘We’re sorry but we could not do that kind of thing..’ The clerk then proceeded to give me back $1 and 75 cents in change. Do not confuse the clerks at McD’s.
I live in a semi rural area. We recently had a new neighbor call the local township administrative office to request the removal of the DEER CROSSING sign on our road. The reason: ‘Too many deer are being hit by cars out here! I don’t think this is a good place for them to be crossing anymore.’
From Kingman, KS
My daughter went to a local Taco Bell and ordered a taco. She asked the person behind the counter for ‘minimal lettuce.’ He said he was sorry, but they only had iceburg lettuce. – From Kansas City
I was at the airport, checking in at the gate when an airport employee asked, ‘Has anyone put anything in your baggage without your knowledge?’ To which I replied, ‘If it was without my knowledge, how would I know?’ He smiled knowingly and nodded, ’That’s why we ask.’ Happened in Birmingham, Ala.
The stoplight on the corner buzzes when it’s safe to cross the street. I was crossing with an intellectually challenged coworker of mine. She asked if I knew what the buzzer was for. I explained that it signals blind people when the light is red. Appalled, she responded, ‘What on earth are blind people doing driving?!’ She’s a probation officer in Wichita, KS
At a good-bye luncheon for an old and dear coworker who was leaving the company due to ‘downsizing,’ our manager commented cheerfully, ‘This is fun. We should do this more often.’ Not another word was spoken. We all just looked at each other with that deer-in-the-headlights stare. This was a lunch at Texas Instruments.
I work with an individual who plugged her power strip back into itself and for the sake of her life, couldn’t understand why her system would not turn on. A deputy with the Dallas County Sheriff’s office, no less.
When my husband and I arrived at an automobile dealership to pick up our car, we were told the keys had been locked in it. We went to the service department and found a mechanic working feverishly to unlock the driver side door. As I watched from the passenger side, I instinctively tried the door handle and discovered that it was unlocked. ‘Hey,’ I announced to the technician, ’it’s open!’ His reply: ‘I know. I already got that side.’ This was at the Ford dealership in Canton, MS
Redneck Rebel Quote of the Week:
“The way to secure liberty is to place it in the people’s hands, that is, to give them the power at all times to defend it in the legislature and in the courts of justice.”
Obama’s opening day pitch at the National’s game was wild and to the left. At least he is consistent.
Dang! Butler almost did it. What a game! What if that last shot had gone in?
If I am told by a doctor that I have two minutes to live, I hope it is the last two minutes of a basketball game and I have all my time-outs left.
Tiger came back this week? How did I miss that?
I am pulling for TW in the Masters this week – Tom Watson.
Tiger cheats and loses millions. His “women” also cheated and are becoming famous and rich. Just saying………
Time for spring cleaning. Let’s start with the House and then move on to the Senate.
Are Jon and Kate taking care of the eight?
God bless the troops!
You Can’t Make This Stuff Up
Hank Johnson and a ‘capsizing’ Guam
Don’t it just make you proud to know that this is one of America’s leaders that is making decisions for you?
Headlines
Obama: Give health care law time enough to work
That’s what I am afraid of. I don’t want to see his way work.
Finally! Job growth returns
Must be Bush’s fault.
Dow nears 11,000 after better economic reports
Must be Bush’s fault.
Ryanair confirms pay-to-pee fee for its fliers
Suddenly the carry-on baggage fee doesn’t seem as bad.
Redneck Joke of the Week
One day a florist went to a barber for a haircut. After the cut, he asked
about his bill, and the barber replied, “I cannot accept money from
you; I’m doing community service this week.” The florist was pleased
and left the shop.
When the barber went to open his shop the next morning, there was a
“thank you” card and a dozen roses waiting for him at his
door.
Later, a police officer came in for a haircut and, when he tried to pay
his bill, the barber again replied, “I cannot accept money from you;
I’m doing community service this week.” The officer was happy and
left the shop.
The next morning when the barber went to open up, there was a “thank
you” card and a dozen donuts waiting for him at his door.
A Congressman came in for a haircut and, when he went to pay his bill,
the barber again replied, “I can not accept money from you; I’m
doing community service this week.” The Congressman was very happy
and left the shop.
The next morning, when the barber went to open up, there were a dozen
Congressmen lined up waiting for a free haircut.
And that, my friends, illustrates the fundamental difference between the
citizens of our country and the politicians who run it.
Redneck Picture of the Week
Racin’
After a week off for Easter, its back to swappin’ some paint at Phoenix’s one mile flat track.
The picks:
Mark Martin
Kevin Harvick
Anybody but Jimmie Johnson
Ain’t True
Virginia Governor Reinstates Confederate History Month
RICHMOND, Va. – Confederate History Month is coming back to Virginia for the first time in eight years, but while some people are happy, other say it sends the wrong message.
Alabama already designates April Confederate History Month and now Gov. McDonnell says he will reinstate the designation as a way to honor Virginia’s history.
Bryan Helton says it’s important to honor history. His family fought on both sides of the Civil War and his 23-year old son is a soldier.
“My son last year went to Iraq, and I was so proud of him,” said Helton.
Helton grew up in Northern Virginia and now wants his six-year-old to know the commonwealth’s role in the war.
“That’s where we came from.That’s who we are as Americans, no matter which side you’re on,” Helton said.
But Megan Hoelter, who visits many civil war battlefields with her family, takes issue with the name.
“I think the Civil War History Month would be an excellent idea, but I don’t think just singling out the Confederate side would be beneficial,” Hoelter said.
In fact, many black leaders are outraged.
“It seemed like he was kowtowing to a right-wing extremist component that still supports the confederacy and with that in mind it was responsible. He is the governor for all the people of Virginia,” said Hilary Shelton with the NAACP (.
But for most families at the Manassas battlefield Wednesday, with Stonewall Jackson looking on, there was overall support for Governor McDonnell’s decision.
“I think it’s a good initiative by the governor. It’s one that brings the Confederacy into the forelight,” said Joe Boyle, Virginia resident.
“It’s part of our history. It’s got to be acknowledged,” said Eleanore Godfrey.
Ain’t true that it is about hate! It is about heritage.
Redneck Song of the Week:
Chris Young – The Man I Want To Be
Redneck Video of the Week:
Extreme 4×4 trucks
Redneck Education Tip of the Week:
Have you ever looked at a map of the world? Look at Texas with me just for a second. That picture, with the Panhandle and the Gulf Coast , and the Red River and the Rio Grande is as much a part of you as anything ever will be. As soon as anyone anywhere in the world looks at it they know what it is. It’s Texas . Pick any kid off the street in Japan and draw him a picture of Texas in the dirt and he’ll know what it is. What happens if I show you a picture of any other state? You might get it maybe after a second or two, but who else would? And even if you do, does it ever stir any feelings in you?
In every man, woman and child on this planet, there is a person who wishes just once he could be a real live Texan and get up on a horse or ride off in a pickup. There is a little bit of Texas in everyone.
Texas is the Alamo . Texas is 183 men standing in a church, facing thousands of Mexican nationals, fighting for freedom, who had the chance to walk out and save themselves, but stayed instead to fight and die for the cause of freedom. John Wayne paid to do the movie himself . That is the Spirit of Texas .
We send our kids to schools named William B. Travis and James Bowie and Davy Crockett, and do you know why? Because those men saw a line in the sand and they decided to cross it and be heroes.
Texas is Sam Houston capturing Antonio Lopez de Santa Ana at San Jacinto .
Texas is huge forests of Piney Woods like the Davy Crockett and Sam Houston National Forests .
Texas is breathtaking mountains in the Big Bend .
Texas is the unparalleled beauty of bluebonnet fields in the Texas Hill Country.
Texas is floating the rivers of the Hill Country on a hot summer day.
Texas is the beautiful, warm beaches of the Gulf Coast of South Texas .
Texas is beaches you can drive on and have many memorable bon-fires with close friends.
Texas is that warm feeling you get when someone asks where you’re from.
Texas is the shiny skyscrapers in Houston and Dallas.
Texas is world record bass from places like Lake Fork .
Texas is Mexican foods like nowhere else, not even Mexico .
Texas is chicken fried steak and world famous Bar-B-Q.
Texas is the Fort Worth Stockyards, Bass Hall, the Ballpark in Arlington and the Astrodome. (guess now, the Reliant Stadium too)..
Texas is larger-than-life legends, like Michael DeBakey, Ann Richards, Denton Cooley, Willie Nelson, Buddy Holly, Gene Autry, Audie Murphy, Tommy Lee Jones, Waylon Jennings, Farrah Fawcett, Janis Joplin, Sandra Bullock, Kris Kristofferson, Tom Landry, Eva Longoria, Darrell Royal, ZZ Top, Eric Dickerson, Earl Campbell, Nolan Ryan, Sam Rayburn, Howard Hughes, George H.. W. Bush, Lyndon B. Johnson, and let’s not forget GEORGE STRAIT- PANTERA, the Big Bopper, Tex Ritter, George Jones, Clay Walker, Mark Chestnut, to name ONLY a few.
Texas is great companies like Dell Computer, Texas Instruments, EDS and Compaq, Whataburger, Southwest Airlines, Bell Helicopter and LOCKHEED MARTIN AEROSPACE, Home of the F-16 Jet Fighter and the JSF Fighter, Valero.
Texas is NASA.
Texas is huge herds of cattle, beautiful horses and miles of crops.
Texas is home to the world famous King Ranch.
Texas has its own power grid.
Texas is home to the most amazing sunsets of gold over an empty field.
Texas is hundreds of deer running around neighborhoods and fields.
Texas is skies blackened with doves and fields full of deer.
Texas is a place where towns and cities shut down to watch the local high school football game on Friday nights and for the Cowboys on Monday Night Football, and for the night In Old San Antonio River Parade in San Antonio.
To drive across Texas , is to drive 1/3 the way across the United States .
Texas is ocean beaches, deserts, lakes and rivers, mountains and prairies, and modern cities.
If it isn’t already in Texas , you probably don’t need it.
No one does anything bigger or better than it’s done in Texas .
By federal law, Texas is the only state in the U…S. That can fly its flag at the same height as the U.S. Flag. Think about that for a second. You fly the Stars and Stripes at 20 feet in Maryland , California , or Maine , and your state flag, whatever it is, goes at 17 feet. You fly the Stars and Stripes in front of Klein Oak High or anyplace else at 20 feet, the Lone Star flies at the same height – 20 feet. Do you know why? Because it is the only state that was a Republic before it became a state.
Also, being a Texan is as high as being an American down here. Our capitol is the only one in the country that is taller than the capitol building in Washington , D.C. And we can divide our state into five states at any time if we wanted to!We can become a republic again at any time the voters of Texas choose, and we included these things as part of the deal when we came on.
Redneck Rebel Quote of the Week:
“I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crises. The great point is to bring them the real facts.“
