... then this sick fuck should rot in jail.
According to the Corpus Christi Caller Times:
A 26-year-old Victoria man arrested last week in Robstown on misdemeanor charges of public lewdness and disorderly conduct could face more serious charges if authorities determine a dog was sexually assaulted.
District Attorney Carlos Valdez, who received the case on Wednesday, said he is awaiting DNA results taken from the female dog to show whether Eduardo Ramos III had any sexual contact with the animal and is researching possible charges.
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This just makes me want to hurl. I can't type fast enough to express my feelings here.
If this guy is convicted, he needs to go away for a long, long time. This may be at least as sick as having sex with a minor. (Back off... I'm not trying to lessen that offense)
Any person that would have sex with any animal should just be locked up for life, because they are are that much of a serious threat to society.
I've seen the pictures on line. I know this shouldn't be so shocking. I can't help it.
So lets play the what if game...
What if this fucker is lucky enough to find any human to have sex with. Can you imagine the potential threat of disease this "man" is passing on to a potential partner.
I need to stop before I spend a sleepless night over this shit.
Thursday, September 27, 2007
Am I just mellowing in my old age?
Just really don't seem like I have much to write about.
I've been posting allot on Cabbie Shack, but most of that is simple copy paste stuff.
I did see a story from Cincinnati about cab drivers that work the airport there having to shell out 60% of their fares to their company, plus pay a lease of a hundred bucks and all of their gas used. I sure hope there's something I'm missing in that story, or those guys are just plain hosed.
Otherwise, I really am having a case of writer's block. I'm sure there's still stuff happening that's pissing me off somehow, but by the time I get to the computer, I've forgotten about it.
I've stopped listening to talk radio for the most part. It's become the same old crap day in and day out. While I only get to hear the conservative crap here in Corpus, I'm sure the liberal crap is just as boorish.
I'm to the point where I just want to relax. I fought the good fight while driving in Vegas. Those guys have shown the ability to stick it to the establishment pretty well. I applaud their efforts.
Yes... I'm still here, and trust me, there will be some topic that lights my fire once again.
Someday...
I've been posting allot on Cabbie Shack, but most of that is simple copy paste stuff.
I did see a story from Cincinnati about cab drivers that work the airport there having to shell out 60% of their fares to their company, plus pay a lease of a hundred bucks and all of their gas used. I sure hope there's something I'm missing in that story, or those guys are just plain hosed.
Otherwise, I really am having a case of writer's block. I'm sure there's still stuff happening that's pissing me off somehow, but by the time I get to the computer, I've forgotten about it.
I've stopped listening to talk radio for the most part. It's become the same old crap day in and day out. While I only get to hear the conservative crap here in Corpus, I'm sure the liberal crap is just as boorish.
I'm to the point where I just want to relax. I fought the good fight while driving in Vegas. Those guys have shown the ability to stick it to the establishment pretty well. I applaud their efforts.
Yes... I'm still here, and trust me, there will be some topic that lights my fire once again.
Someday...
Saturday, September 22, 2007
Sign of the times
Indianapolis - Outside the Hope Baptist Church on the west side is a preview of this weekend's sermon - what some might consider an unusual subject - as the sign reads, "No tax-funded footwashing sinks."
The topic refers to plans to install footwashing basins on the Indianapolis airport property to accommodate Muslim cabdrivers who practice the ritual several times a day. But Pastor Jerry Hillenburg considers the plan "a violation of the constitution."
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I never thought I'd find myself siding with the Muslim drivers, but there is one thing not mentioned here.
While I don't claim to know this as fact, it's a pretty sure bet that these drivers pay extra for the "privilege" of working the airport. Where else does this money go? It really is high time that these cities use at least some the money paid to them in licence fees to benefit the drivers, regardless of their religion.
Thursday, September 20, 2007
Tuesday, September 18, 2007
Brings back memories
Of late, I have been reading and posting on a forum targeted to cab drivers in Las Vegas. RightInTheNuts.com is the latest site in a long list of likewise forums to attract the opinions of disgruntled hacks.
I ran a forum about 6 years ago called VegasCabbie.com. It's good to see that the tradition has not been dropped, as the internet has fast become the leading source of information available to anyone about any subject. I understand that RightInTheNuts.com is at the top of Google's list when searching for particular categories.
You couldn't pay me enough to drive a cab in Las Vegas again. The companies, the Taxicab Authority and yes, some of the drivers have absolutely ruined that market. There are over twice the number of cabs on the streets out there than when I started in 1998. I know Vegas has grown, but not that much.
I sense more desperation out there now. Drivers are even more frustrated than before I left in 2003. A well organized strike (wildcat... the union contracts have a no strike clause) would send a strong message to the companies that the drivers have had enough.
I sure wish them the best...
I ran a forum about 6 years ago called VegasCabbie.com. It's good to see that the tradition has not been dropped, as the internet has fast become the leading source of information available to anyone about any subject. I understand that RightInTheNuts.com is at the top of Google's list when searching for particular categories.
You couldn't pay me enough to drive a cab in Las Vegas again. The companies, the Taxicab Authority and yes, some of the drivers have absolutely ruined that market. There are over twice the number of cabs on the streets out there than when I started in 1998. I know Vegas has grown, but not that much.
I sense more desperation out there now. Drivers are even more frustrated than before I left in 2003. A well organized strike (wildcat... the union contracts have a no strike clause) would send a strong message to the companies that the drivers have had enough.
I sure wish them the best...
Sunday, September 16, 2007
A little history from 2002
Sunday, August 04, 2002Copyright © Las Vegas Review-Journal
Taxi driver uses Web site, radio show and column to share what cabbies are thinking
By JOHN PRZYBYS REVIEW-JOURNAL
To the locals and tourists who ride in his cab, he's John Shannon, who navigates the congested streets of Las Vegas so they don't have to.
To his fellow drivers, he's "Hound Dawg," top dog of the VegasCabbie.com Web site and host of the weekly radio show "The Dawg Shift."
Both the Web site and radio show represent narrowcasting in the purest sense, featuring news, advice, discussion and whatever else might be of interest to Southern Nevada's legions of cab drivers.
Shannon, 39, knows about the job firsthand. He's been driving in Las Vegas for about four years, and before that spent 17 years as a cab driver in Minneapolis.
In fact, Shannon and his wife, Diane -- also a driver, who operates a wheelchair-accessible cab -- became hooked on the city when they tied the knot here.
"I said, `We've got to come back here and live,' " Shannon said. "When I first proposed the idea, it was, like, `No way.' Now I couldn't get her to leave if I wanted to."
VegasCabbie.com started about 2 1/2 years ago as a hobby for Shannon, who figured the Web site would be a good way to work on his computer programming skills.
Originally, Shannon designed it as "kind of a tourist information site, maybe as a kind of link between cab drivers and potential passengers."
But, he said, "I wasn't getting a whole lot of play with that."
Shannon decided to focus the site toward drivers. Last September, he put up a message board on which cabbies could post their opinions, questions or comments, and VegasCabbie.com was off and running.
The site began at a time when Shannon was developing an interest in "the politics of the industry."
"I started attending (Nevada) Taxicab Authority meetings. I'd gotten myself involved with the Professional Drivers Association, which is a group that is representing taxi drivers' interests. I just saw a bunch of stuff that was happening and decided I'm obviously not the only one who had an opinion about this, and I wanted to hear everybody else's opinions."
Word of mouth and general Web-surfing have brought increasing numbers of contributors to the site, which Shannon said totaled at least 19,000 page views during July.
In mid-March, a companion radio show, "The Dawg Shift," joined VegasCabbie.com as a forum for valley cab drivers. The show airs at midnight each Wednesday night/Thursday morning on KLAV-AM 1230 and also can be heard via live Webcast and through archived shows available through the Web site.
"It's a little bit of something for everybody," said Shannon, who also writes a column for Trip Sheet, a local cab driver-oriented publication. "It's totally open to whatever the guys want to use it for."
Recent postings include opinion pieces about news issues, bits of Internet humor, even a note from a new driver seeking advice.
"There was a guy not long ago looking for a roommate. So it's little things like that," Shannon noted.
The most talked-about issue lately has involved strip club operators, Shannon said -- "who was paying, who wasn't paying and who started this whole deal with cutting off cab drivers from receiving tokes from strip clubs."
"One of the biggest things, too, now has been the overallocation of taxi cabs," he added.
Another issue is cab drivers who want to own their cabs. "The way it's set up here, it's not impossible to do so, but it's damn close," Shannon said.
Shannon also posts stories about issues that can affect cab drivers in less overt ways.
For example, "strip clubs are big news for guys out here," Shannon said, so, "we've been following the issue of the county trying to change how lap dances are done."
Shannon said he's so far found no need to delete the posts drivers contribute. "It's their opinion and it's their right to post it, and if I don't agree with it I'll reply to it, as will other people," he said.
"I'm not afraid to banter in discussion with anybody that wants to talk about an issue, whether they agree with me or disagree with me."
In fact, Shannon jokes, "I'm not above sarcasm and I'm not above, quite frankly, being a jerk sometimes over the air."
Shannon, who drives for Union Cab Co., said his own bosses "have never given me a lick of grief about anything I ever said on the radio, posted on the Web site or even said in Trip Sheet magazine," despite the fact he's occasionally taken the company to task over its radio dispatching.
While cab drivers remain VegasCabbie.com's primary audience, Shannon would welcome comments from cab riders, too.
"It's not just for drivers, but also for people who come into contact with drivers as well," he said.
"I've encouraged people on several different occasions, people who have had dealings with cab drivers, `If you've gotten a bad ride or something like that, tell us about that. If you have something on your mind, we'd sure love to hear about it.' "
Taxi driver uses Web site, radio show and column to share what cabbies are thinking
By JOHN PRZYBYS REVIEW-JOURNAL
To the locals and tourists who ride in his cab, he's John Shannon, who navigates the congested streets of Las Vegas so they don't have to.
To his fellow drivers, he's "Hound Dawg," top dog of the VegasCabbie.com Web site and host of the weekly radio show "The Dawg Shift."
Both the Web site and radio show represent narrowcasting in the purest sense, featuring news, advice, discussion and whatever else might be of interest to Southern Nevada's legions of cab drivers.
Shannon, 39, knows about the job firsthand. He's been driving in Las Vegas for about four years, and before that spent 17 years as a cab driver in Minneapolis.
In fact, Shannon and his wife, Diane -- also a driver, who operates a wheelchair-accessible cab -- became hooked on the city when they tied the knot here.
"I said, `We've got to come back here and live,' " Shannon said. "When I first proposed the idea, it was, like, `No way.' Now I couldn't get her to leave if I wanted to."
VegasCabbie.com started about 2 1/2 years ago as a hobby for Shannon, who figured the Web site would be a good way to work on his computer programming skills.
Originally, Shannon designed it as "kind of a tourist information site, maybe as a kind of link between cab drivers and potential passengers."
But, he said, "I wasn't getting a whole lot of play with that."
Shannon decided to focus the site toward drivers. Last September, he put up a message board on which cabbies could post their opinions, questions or comments, and VegasCabbie.com was off and running.
The site began at a time when Shannon was developing an interest in "the politics of the industry."
"I started attending (Nevada) Taxicab Authority meetings. I'd gotten myself involved with the Professional Drivers Association, which is a group that is representing taxi drivers' interests. I just saw a bunch of stuff that was happening and decided I'm obviously not the only one who had an opinion about this, and I wanted to hear everybody else's opinions."
Word of mouth and general Web-surfing have brought increasing numbers of contributors to the site, which Shannon said totaled at least 19,000 page views during July.
In mid-March, a companion radio show, "The Dawg Shift," joined VegasCabbie.com as a forum for valley cab drivers. The show airs at midnight each Wednesday night/Thursday morning on KLAV-AM 1230 and also can be heard via live Webcast and through archived shows available through the Web site.
"It's a little bit of something for everybody," said Shannon, who also writes a column for Trip Sheet, a local cab driver-oriented publication. "It's totally open to whatever the guys want to use it for."
Recent postings include opinion pieces about news issues, bits of Internet humor, even a note from a new driver seeking advice.
"There was a guy not long ago looking for a roommate. So it's little things like that," Shannon noted.
The most talked-about issue lately has involved strip club operators, Shannon said -- "who was paying, who wasn't paying and who started this whole deal with cutting off cab drivers from receiving tokes from strip clubs."
"One of the biggest things, too, now has been the overallocation of taxi cabs," he added.
Another issue is cab drivers who want to own their cabs. "The way it's set up here, it's not impossible to do so, but it's damn close," Shannon said.
Shannon also posts stories about issues that can affect cab drivers in less overt ways.
For example, "strip clubs are big news for guys out here," Shannon said, so, "we've been following the issue of the county trying to change how lap dances are done."
Shannon said he's so far found no need to delete the posts drivers contribute. "It's their opinion and it's their right to post it, and if I don't agree with it I'll reply to it, as will other people," he said.
"I'm not afraid to banter in discussion with anybody that wants to talk about an issue, whether they agree with me or disagree with me."
In fact, Shannon jokes, "I'm not above sarcasm and I'm not above, quite frankly, being a jerk sometimes over the air."
Shannon, who drives for Union Cab Co., said his own bosses "have never given me a lick of grief about anything I ever said on the radio, posted on the Web site or even said in Trip Sheet magazine," despite the fact he's occasionally taken the company to task over its radio dispatching.
While cab drivers remain VegasCabbie.com's primary audience, Shannon would welcome comments from cab riders, too.
"It's not just for drivers, but also for people who come into contact with drivers as well," he said.
"I've encouraged people on several different occasions, people who have had dealings with cab drivers, `If you've gotten a bad ride or something like that, tell us about that. If you have something on your mind, we'd sure love to hear about it.' "
Saturday, September 8, 2007
Much ado about nothing
I guess I'm not sure what all the commotion is about, pertaining to Vanessa Hudgens' nude photo that has popped up on the internet. I would hope that there is no great outcry to remove her from her popular show on the Disney Channel, "High School Musical."
This needs to be seen for what it is. A young lady (over 18) who wanted to send her boyfriend (also over 18) a sexy photograph of herself via e-mail. As we all know, e-mail is not as private as we'd like it to be.
So now the whole world (those who care) knows what Ms. Hudgens looks like in the buff.
Big deal!
This photo (yes I've seen it) isn't pornographic by any means. It wasn't really all that provocative. She is a cute young lady with a nice body. My God, how many fit that description?
The best part is that hardly any of us would have known about this if the National Enquirer hadn't broke this "huge" story. Isn't it a shame? That rag sells better than most of the nation's newspapers. It just goes to show what is important to our voyeuristic society. A society that can't wait to see the career of this young lady go up in flames.
Just where are our priorities?
This needs to be seen for what it is. A young lady (over 18) who wanted to send her boyfriend (also over 18) a sexy photograph of herself via e-mail. As we all know, e-mail is not as private as we'd like it to be.
So now the whole world (those who care) knows what Ms. Hudgens looks like in the buff.
Big deal!
This photo (yes I've seen it) isn't pornographic by any means. It wasn't really all that provocative. She is a cute young lady with a nice body. My God, how many fit that description?
The best part is that hardly any of us would have known about this if the National Enquirer hadn't broke this "huge" story. Isn't it a shame? That rag sells better than most of the nation's newspapers. It just goes to show what is important to our voyeuristic society. A society that can't wait to see the career of this young lady go up in flames.
Just where are our priorities?
Thursday, September 6, 2007
Ok... I'll write something constructive
I know it seems of late that all I'm doing is shilling a line of t-shirts with stupid little sayings.
Well, you're right...
Fact is, things are going pretty good these days. Not much to complain about. I haven't even recorded a rant in about a month.
This is a sad time of year for me. Summer's winding down, baseball season is almost over and this town goes into shutdown mode as the tourist season comes to a close. Sure, the winter Texans will soon be here, but they just don't provide the same energy to the landscape or the economy.
Fall is a beautiful time to visit the coastal bend area. Temps are still in the mid to upper 80's and beach traffic is considerably less congested.
Football season is upon us. I don't care for it as much as baseball, but I still follow the Cowboys and Texans (that's the team in Houston these days). I even have found myself paying attention to the Texas Longhorns. I never liked watching college football until seeing Texas' incredible season of 2005 culminating in a national championship. Last year was a little disappointing, but I think they can turn it around this year.
With Fred Thomson's announced candidacy for President, it reminds me that I still have no clue who I'm going to vote for. I'm in a tough spot. I support the war effort as long as we continue to fight to win. I am in favor of stronger border security which includes building a wall. You would think any Republican candidate would make for an easy choice.
Not so fast...
I also am in favor of some form of universal health coverage. I think that a system that everyone participates in would make costs lower for all. The cost for this would be based on your current health, not on your income. Fat guys like me and smokers would be expected to chip in more than the healthy folks. Unfortunately, it would have to be a payroll deduction to guarantee compliance, but an individual would still have the choice of the type of coverage and deductible to suit their needs.
Yes, I'm beginning to ramble here. I'll close it out for now.
Remember to buy a t-shirt.
Well, you're right...
Fact is, things are going pretty good these days. Not much to complain about. I haven't even recorded a rant in about a month.
This is a sad time of year for me. Summer's winding down, baseball season is almost over and this town goes into shutdown mode as the tourist season comes to a close. Sure, the winter Texans will soon be here, but they just don't provide the same energy to the landscape or the economy.
Fall is a beautiful time to visit the coastal bend area. Temps are still in the mid to upper 80's and beach traffic is considerably less congested.
Football season is upon us. I don't care for it as much as baseball, but I still follow the Cowboys and Texans (that's the team in Houston these days). I even have found myself paying attention to the Texas Longhorns. I never liked watching college football until seeing Texas' incredible season of 2005 culminating in a national championship. Last year was a little disappointing, but I think they can turn it around this year.
With Fred Thomson's announced candidacy for President, it reminds me that I still have no clue who I'm going to vote for. I'm in a tough spot. I support the war effort as long as we continue to fight to win. I am in favor of stronger border security which includes building a wall. You would think any Republican candidate would make for an easy choice.
Not so fast...
I also am in favor of some form of universal health coverage. I think that a system that everyone participates in would make costs lower for all. The cost for this would be based on your current health, not on your income. Fat guys like me and smokers would be expected to chip in more than the healthy folks. Unfortunately, it would have to be a payroll deduction to guarantee compliance, but an individual would still have the choice of the type of coverage and deductible to suit their needs.
Yes, I'm beginning to ramble here. I'll close it out for now.
Remember to buy a t-shirt.
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