Baby's First Christmas

How bad is the economy, really?

Merry Christmas

A little more on the Vegas taxi industry

WWE fan tossed for no good reason

Vegas cab drivers, leasing is in your future.

Wal-Mart death avoidable

Taxi Talk - Episode 1

The demise of the taxi industry

Gay rights = civil rights?

But, I did tell you so...

Well... Here we go.

Condolences to Barak Obama

Extremists getting all the press

Being called a racist by a white guy

So, I've had this manager position at the cab company for a couple of months now. I've really enjoyed the job for the most part, however there is one part of the job that leaves a real bad taste in my mouth... Firing employees.

I've had to let 7 people go so far. One for not grasping the job in a reasonable time, one got busted jacking money out a co-worker's purse, 3 for attendance issues. I even had one that was caught sniffing used tampons on the ladies room.

But there was one guy that I had all I could do not to send away on a stretcher. I actually didn't fire this guy. His stupidity got him in trouble with my supervisor, at the time.

It was really my first time having to deal with someone like him. Just GOOGLE paranoid and his picture will be on the first result. I mean, every day this dude came to work, he thought someone was out to get him. At first, I found it kind of funny, but after a while, it just got painfully old.

Well, now our company has been named in a lawsuit by this guy. While I don't know the particulars of the suit, I think it has something to with wrongful termination. I have heard through the grapevine, however, that Lori and I are mentioned by name. He claims that because of this website, I am a racist.

Now I didn't come out of hibernation from this blog to debate whether or not I'm a racist. I've locked horns with a couple of black folks, over the last year or so, that were unable to distinguish the difference between a redneck and a racist. But this guy that looks like a billy goat with a fishing lure stuck in his lip is as white as a flour tortilla.

Now, I've never been the type to rely on character witnesses, but I challenge anybody to talk to my staff, of which only a handful are Caucasian, if this self proclaimed redneck has a racist bone in his body.

Problem is, I just don't have a lot of faith in the legal system. Frivolous lawsuits still plug the courts and nobody seems to have the seeds to do anything about it. I'm not going to breath easy until this thing is dismissed...

...or when the asylum finally realizes that their star patient is missing.

Thanks for the heads up.

Taking a break from YouTube...

While I enjoy doing video rants, it's become obvious that potential critics are focusing more on my appearance and my labored breathing than on my message. I don't have a thin skin, it just gets old after a while.

I've also been a little busier at work. I recently got promoted to "Communications Room Manager," responsible for for dispatchers and call takers in our our office. I see big things happening in this position, and I look forward to the challenge.

I still have opinions, and over the following weeks, I will be spending more time typing on this blog. I may throw in an occasional video, but it's going to have to be a subject that's burning a hole in my gut, at least for now.

I want to thank my supporters on YouTube and on this forum, and just keep in mind, you can't keep a good fat redneck down.

More like Obama, Less like Nas

Jessie Jackson drops the "N-bomb"... Who cares?

By the way... Have you noticed?

Funny how a baby can change a man's perspective

I don't want to hear your music when I call you.

After what happened in Maryland...

In rasslin' terms, this election will be a squash

Now, real guns that look like toys???

R.I.P. - George Carlin

Are "black organizations" good for all Americans?

Offshore drilling... The only issue in which I disagree with Barack Obama.

Is the world a better place without Saddam?

The following is a reply I made to this video.

Thoughts on the one year anniversary of the Benoit tragedy.

It's ok to disagree...

Fatherhood

Gas prices... Brought to you by our wonderful free market society

Rush Limbawl and Sean Whaanity would tell you that our free market society is the envy of the world. Yet unless you make over $100k per year, can you afford to participate in this free market?

The dollar is proving to be worthless in this world market, and yes even the Canadian dollar is stronger than ours. You remember Canada, the country that takes care of its sick and elderly. Their economy is in better shape than ours.

Our wonderful free market system is letting already perversly rich individuals trade oil futures to ridiculously high levels, while the oil lobby throws millions at Congress to stifle funding for alternative energy solutions.

Meanwhile, poor schmucks like me can't afford to drive 50 miles out of town to go to the lake for the weekend. And we call this freedom.

They say freedom isn't free. Bet your ass it aint. Freedom is the ability to come and go as you please, but when it costs more for a tank of gas than it does for a monthly electric bill for a one bedroom apartment, who can afford to go anywhere.

My my most favorite way relax is to go on short road trips. These days I can't even afford to drive to the suburbs to see an old friend. They call this freedom?

Fact is, the more money you have, the more free you are. Is that what our founding fathers had envisioned?

ECW... What am I missing out on

The Rasslin' Rant

Primary season is over... What's next for Obama and Clinton?

Budget Towing, St. Paul, Minnesota

Apparently, Mr. Carlson has viewed this video and is taking his frustration out on the employee who referred my wife to the job. For this, I'm sorry. However, I stand by every statement in this video.

In the future, I would appreciate ANYONE that has a comment about this or any other video THAT I MAKE to use the proper channels to contact me, instead of ranting to my wife for a half hour, when she had NOTHING to do with the content.

Thank you.

Primary lessons learned

Oil execs: "It aint our fault"

Priorities in school

Airline terror plot aimed for a bigger 9-11

Now someone tell me this is another US Government conspiracy.

Obama plans to draw down our nuclear arsenal

No touching in a Minnesota school... More "nanny state" garbage.

West Virginia doesn't like Obama, is this a problem?

More on the collapse of the Twin Towers

The collapse of the Twin Towers

My take on the Philadelphia police incident last Wednesday

One of the reasons I call myself a very lucky man.

I've crunched the numbers, Hillary has little to no chance.

See for yourself...

What if Hillary does win?

Why do I think gas prices are too high? Should we have the Strategic Oil Reserve?

Topics of discussion... I need your help.

Clinton/Obama ticket... Why not?

Gas Prices... When will we have enough of being pumped at the pump?

A very important political song...

Pink - Dear Mr. President

I've never been a fan of Pink (I'm just too friggin' old), but this is good stuff.

What I'd sing if I had more talent

Back in Minnesota...

So long, Arkansas...

What if Dr. King had lived?

Details on yesterday's robbery

National Enquirer fans more racial flames... Nationals fans boo President at opener.

Issues... damn it!!

The infatuation with other people's sex life.

Why I'm in favor of "universal" health care

Do you have the right to own a gun?

Discrimination in taxi industry

Has Obama ever been called by the N-word?

A Little about the Rock

Hate mail... I've made it to the big time!

Clinton wins Texas and Ohio... Now what?

Obama... a role model?

The McCain Affair?

Yet another campus shooting...

Hanoi Jane drops a C-Bomb

Why say nigger or nigga?

My answer...

That didn't take long...

The voters have spoken

All's well so far...

They just don't get it

Looks like Rush Limbawl and Sean Whaanity just don't understand... The people have spoken... They want John McCain as the Republican nominee in the upcoming election... Plain and simple.

The political winds are changing. The Reagan era died long before the Gipper himself did. I don't think people are ready for full blown socialism, but it's become painfully obvious that trickle down economics policies of the 80's are only benefiting the upper echelon of our society.

This is also a different world were living in. Hard core conservatives are still trying to live in the glory days of the last war (besides Grenada) that this country has decisively won (World War II). Fact is, the world just isn't interested in our role as international policemen anymore.

I myself don't care who wins the Republican nomination. While I'm favoring Obama, I will vote for Hillary if she is the Democratic nominee. That said, I don't think McCain would be a bad presidential choice.

As long as he is himself, not a wannabe Ronnie.

Arkansas tornado, February 5th

Welcome to Arkansas

The tornadoes that passed through Arkansas Tuesday missed us in Little Rock to the north and west. We did get some strong storms that uprooted some trees and knocked our cab company off line for a couple of hours, but there were no tornadoes right in the Little Rock area.

As of this time, there were 7 storm related deaths reported.

We made it

Well... We arrived around 5:30, Thursday morning. Didn't get in our room until after 10. That was fun...

Not a great first impression... Cold and rainy... Although, there was an impressive thunderstorm that ushered in all the muck. It's supposed to clear up today, I have some runnin' to do, so it will be nice to see the town without all that weather drama.

I will be on the road in a cab Monday. I like the look of this company.

I'll have more later...

Stallone says HGH ok

Sylvester Stallone says he used human growth hormone to get buff for the new Rambo movie and defends its use.

“HGH [human growth hormone] is nothing,” the 61-year-old actor tells Time magazine in its Feb. 4 issue.

“Anyone who calls it a steroid is grossly misinformed.”

Because it is nearly undetectable, human growth hormone has become a substance of great concern in major league baseball and other sports battling allegations of rampant doping.

“Testosterone to me is so important for a sense of well-being when you get older,” Stallone says. “Everyone over 40 years old would be wise to investigate it because it increases the quality of your life. Mark my words. In 10 years it will be over the counter.”

Stallone directed and co-wrote the new Rambo movie, which arrived in theaters Friday.

Congrats to Obama, wins SC primary

Almost all the pundants had Barak Obama winning the South Caralina primary. I'm not sure anybody figured it would be this big a rout.

According to CNN, Obama took 55% of the vote. Hillary Clinton ran a distant second with 27%. John Edwards (who?) managed 18%. Most of them were hair dressers.

The win gives Barak the momentum he needs going into "Super Tuesday," where voters in 22 states will cast their ballot for the Democratic nominee.

This next week will be critical to the Obama campaign. It will be important for him to focus on his message and not to get drug into the mud trap that former president Clinton will surly have waiting for him. Personally, I'd ignore the Clintons all together and begin to draw the differences between himself and either John McCain or Mitt Romney.

Good luck, Barak, and congratulations.

Keep your friends close...

...and your enemies closer.

I saw this pic, from what I think was last April, posted in a usenet group attributed to fans of Rush Limbaugh.

The post suggested that Obama was buddy-buddy with race huckster, Al Sharpton.

As noted, this image was posted in the New York Times last April, long before Obama announced his run for the White House.

I also remember hearing since that Sharpton is backing Hillary Clinton.

You have to remember, Sharpton has never met a photo op he didn't like. While supporting Clinton, mark my words, if Obama isn't your next president, "America is a nation of racists" will be the the battle cry from Sharpton's mouth.

I like Barack. I think he has the leadership skills to bring this country back together. I just hope there is not a cabinet post awaiting Reverend Al should he win the election.

Movin' on...

I know I've been using YouTube alot to get my point across instead of typing. Like I've said before, I can talk much faster than I can type. I do however, miss banging in the keyboard.

So here goes...

Lori and I are leaving Corpus Christi at the end of the month. We are going to attempt to settle in Little Rock.

Lori was having a hard time finding a job for her skill set (other than cab driving) that paid worth a damn. She already has some leads up there. As for me, I'm just going to do what I do best. Well... other than sleep.

I will miss Corpus. Unfortunatly, the economy is just a little too sluggish down here. The city has a world of potential. Hopefully, some day, it will realize it.

There will be a couple of things I won't miss. Corpus is going south... literally. Instead of redeveloping the area west of the bayfront, the city has sprawled southward into what once was farmland. Developers are building faster than sewer, water and road development can keep up. Meanwhile, the area due west of the downtown bayfront is full of abandoned buildings and transient motels that double as meth labs and crack houses.

One other thing that makes my skin crawl out here is the way people treat the public restrooms. In my line of work, using a gas station bathroom is a way of life. Unfortunately finding piss covered seats and tagged walls is all too common. (even in better neighborhoods) The worst though is finding a trash can by the commode filled with used toilet paper. Am I missing something here? Was this a tradition brought up from Mexico. Please...

Anyway... I look forward to the challenge of learning yet another city. Thank God for my Garmin.

Redneck execution

Bill Clinton & Monica Lewinsky apologize

What I don't understand is why he is still held with such high regard by some in the Democratic party.

End the dynasty

Had me up to the solution...

Ed Schultz on Bill Clinton's role

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I couldn't agree more...

Did candidate Reagan influence the delay of the hostages in Iran?

Cute...

Celebs... Give em a break

Problems with market based heath care... Obama on Reagan

Priorities of information

If this happened, funnier than shit...

PRESIDENTIAL hopeful Barack Obama claims to run a clean campaign, but someone in his camp took a swipe at Hillary Clinton through the candidate's theme song.

As Obama and his wife, Michelle, strolled triumphantly into his victory party in Des Moines, Iowa, on Jan. 3, Jay-Z's "99 Problems" was blaring — a song where Jay raps, "I got 99 problems but a bitch ain't one."

Most listeners took it as a not-so-sly reference to Clinton. "We didn't know he used that," a shocked Clinton spokesperson said.

Obama has no problem admitting he's a rap fan. "I tell you what. I can tell you the kinds of stuff that I love dancing to, and that is, I'm sort of, of the generation of Stevie Wonder and Earth, Wind and Fire," he told CNN along the campaign trail.

"But I'm sort of hip to the younger stuff. You know, like Beyoncé's 'Crazy in Love.' That's a good song to dance to. Eminem . . . although he curses sometimes." Clinton seems less committed to any theme-musical style. She made a "Sopranos" spoof video last year to unveil her official campaign song, "You and I," by Céline Dion. The lyrics go: "High above the mountains, far across the sea, I can hear your voice calling out to me." The song later disappeared from her campaign, however.

But maybe Clinton could use a rap number of her own. Lil' Kim's hit, "Can't [bleep] With Queen Bee," would have been perfect to celebrate her win in New Hampshire. It goes: "It's a new day, and all you . . . back-stabbing . . . haters, you're all history. So you can hate, or hail the Queen. I got a vision, I think for the future, baby."

Instead, she entered her New Hampshire victory party to "Ain't No Mountain High Enough" by Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell. But now, she's using the Big Head Todd and the Monsters rock song, "Blue Sky." The lyrics go: "Yes you can change the world, true love discovers. She stands, and she won't back down. Oh, yes, you can change the world. There is no other one, just see if you can find blue sky." "We use a variety of songs, those are the most recent," said Clinton's spokesperson.

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BET Founder Johnson Defends His Recent Criticisms of Obama

By Frank Ahrens
Washington Post Staff Writer

A day after his remarks about Sen. Barack Obama helped fuel a rancorous debate about race in the Democratic presidential contest, an unapologetic Robert L. Johnson described how frustrating it is to be on the other side of a candidate he compared to Teflon.

"We've always said we need a perfect, well-spoken, Harvard-educated black candidate who would prove we've transcended race," the billionaire African American businessman and supporter of Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (N.Y.) said in an interview yesterday. "Well, now we've got him and nobody knows how to campaign against him."

Johnson reiterated that he was referring to Obama's earlier career as a community organizer when he said during an appearance on behalf of Clinton on Sunday in Columbia, S.C., that the senator from Illinois needs to explain his past. And he elaborated on what he meant when he called Obama "Sidney," a reference to Sidney Poitier's well-mannered character in the film "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner."

"What has happened, in my opinion, is that what we have created is the quote-unquote 'perfect candidate' that's like in the movies, that has absolutely no blemishes," a vision that is unrealistic, said Johnson, who started Black Entertainment Television and has been a friend of the Clintons for two decades.

He said Obama has avoided talking about race, a tactic that Johnson said made him acceptable to the largely white electorate of Iowa. Obama won the state's Democratic caucuses on Jan. 3. "White America is saying, 'He's safe for us, he should be safe for you guys,' " Johnson said, referring to blacks. "We're letting other people pick our leaders."

"The Obama campaign -- win, lose or draw -- is going to have to address race," Johnson said. "If we don't have this debate about race within the Democratic Party . . . we could find ourselves with a division in this party as we go up against whoever the Republicans put up."

Johnson said that one of President Bill Clinton's political strengths was his ability to connect with black voters, and that it is an ability shared by his wife. "This is a fight between who's going to control the liberal soul of the party," Johnson said. "The people who don't like the Clintons have found the Clintons' worst nightmare -- a very dynamic, talented black man to run up against them."

Johnson is known within the media industry as a tough-dealing, visionary businessman, apt to take a high-stakes risk in a sometimes unpredictable fashion, somewhat like fellow media mogul Ted Turner. He launched BET in 1979 with $15,000. Johnson earned praise for creating a cable channel that catered to black viewers, but he also drew criticism for its raunchy hip-hop videos, which some viewers said reinforced negative stereotypes.

Unbowed, Johnson and his wife, Sheila, became billionaires when they sold BET to Viacom in 2000 for $3 billion. The couple later divorced. Sheila Crump Johnson, now president of the Washington Mystics WNBA team, is backing Obama.

Johnson, 61, met the Clintons at a weekend retreat two decades ago at the Martha's Vineyard home of activist Marian Wright Edelman. He reconnected with them in 1988 and joined other prominent blacks from business and entertainment in backing Bill Clinton's presidential run in 1992, donating to the campaign and the party. "But I never got to stay in the Lincoln Bedroom," Johnson said.

Since 1990, Johnson has donated $2 million to congressional and presidential candidates, and 99 percent of that has gone to Democrats, according to the Center for Responsive Politics. He has given $14,800 to Hillary Clinton since she first ran for the Senate in 2000. He gave $4,500 total to Obama during the 2004 and 2006 cycles, but none so far during this campaign, the CRP reports.

After Bill Clinton left office, he and Johnson traded professional favors, Johnson said. When Johnson was bidding to buy the Charlotte Bobcats NBA team, he asked Clinton to call league Commissioner David Stern and put in a good word for him, which Clinton did.

Likewise, when Hillary Clinton was considering her presidential run in late 2006, Johnson got a call from her staff, asking if she and her husband could use Johnson's vacation home in Anguilla. Johnson said he was staying there at the time but left to make room for the Clintons.

Staff researcher Richard Drezen contributed to this report.

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Could it be that just maybe, there our more important issues facing our country than race?

BTW... I'm still looking for someone to help me bankroll WET (White Entertainment Television) We'd start with David Allen Coe videos and reruns of The Dukes of Hazzard an My Name is Earl. Maybe a little Jeff Foxworthy and Larry the Cable Guy for the weekends.

I'm sure Barack will get around to addressing race. When he does, will Bob Johnson listen? Or does he think he's not black enough to know from which he speaks?

America...Think For Yourself...

Well said...

I would have had more respect...

...if he would have stood by his word.

Not that anyone would, but if someone were to publish a newsletter in my name, I'd be damn sure I read every word before it hit the streets. If you think about it, was anything attributed to this newsletter wrong?

Even if the the words in these newsletters were were written by Ron Paul himself, it does not make him a racist, it makes him a realist. Now maybe there was a little sarcasm mixed in, but the point made was right on the money.

It's about time that ALL Americans get their head out of the sand, and understand what's really happening in our inner-cities.

Father of Slain Teen Girls Upset That Daughter Dated Non-Muslim, Police Records Show

DALLAS — AP

A man on the run from police since his teenage daughters were found shot to death in a taxicab on New Year's Day had threatened to hurt one of the girls for dating a non-Muslim boy, according to police documents.

Authorities deflected questions Wednesday about whether the sisters, who had both a Christian and Muslim memorial service, might have been victims of an "honor killing."

"There's a lot of speculation out there right now," Irving police spokesman Richard Gilmette said. "We have no solid information."

Amina Said, 18, and her sister Sarah, 17, were found shot multiple times in a cab outside a suburban Dallas hotel. Police found them after one of the girls called 911 from a cell phone and said she was dying. A capital murder warrant has been issued for Yaser Said, 50, who has not been seen since the Lewisville High School students were found dead.

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Gail Gattrell, the sisters' great-aunt, has called the deaths an "honor killing," in which a woman is murdered by a relative to protect her family's honor.

According to a police report released Tuesday, a family member told investigators that Yaser Said threatened "bodily harm" against Sarah for going on a date with a non-Muslim.

The police documents, first obtained by Dallas television station KXAS, also show that Patricia Said fled with her daughters in the week before the girls were killed because she was in "great fear for her life."

She asked police if she needed to do anything to prevent her husband from getting information about the girls when they enrolled in a different school, according to the documents.

Gilmette said police had no information on the father's whereabouts. The department on Wednesday taped a segment for "America's Most Wanted" in hopes of finding him, Gilmette said.

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I wonder why this doesen't get more attention. According to the The United Nations Population Fund, the annual worldwide total of honor-killing victims may be as high as 5,000 women.

The worst of this is that Yaser Said had to go through a pretty heavy background screen in order to drive a cab in Irving. I'm sure nothing came back that would have indicated that he was any more than a normal father of 2.

I've also heard that there might have been indications that Said may have been verbally abusing his daughters to the point that they were afraid of him. Why was there no intervention. Were they afraid to ruffle feathers? I mean...these days, you can't discipline a child with someone calling CPS. If these girls were openly afraid of their father, why was there no intervention?

On a much lesser note, this really gives my industry a black eye. We have a bad enough reputation. I wonder how many people won't take a cab now because the driver may be another Yaser Said.

What I'm looking for in a presidential candidate

Bill takes off the gloves

Man... He looks ticked... He seems to forget that Obama's campaign mirrors his from back in '92.

Obama New Hampshire Rally

You just can't help but to like this guy.

Barack Hussein Obama... What's in a name?

Iraq We Are Sorry

No... this is not my video.

Yes, it does make you wonder why we invaded Iraq. Were they a direct threat to this country? To our "interests?"

It's no doubt that the US was looking for a fight after 9-11, and smoking the Taliban out of Afghanistan was just too easy. But, why Iraq? Osama was not there, was he?

In my opinion, we lost focus. Instead of stopping at nothing to find Osama, this country opted for "shock and awe" in Iraq, and yes, many innocent people died.

Now one could make the argument that our presence in Iraq drew al-al-Qaeda "out of the wood work," but I still think we should have continued to pursue them in Afghanistan and maybe Pakistan. But, I'm sorry, I still think Iraq was a mistake.

One we'll be paying for, for a long time.

ABC News : 20/20 : Ron Paul : Is War Justifiable?

It's a shame this guy is dismissed as a nut job.

Hypocrite Huckabee Leaves His Cross in Iowa

The Nation -- It is no secret that Southern Baptist preacher Mike Huckabee positioned himself as a "Christian leader" to win Thursday's Iowa Republican presidential caucuses.

Huckabee's campaign featured a glowing cross in one television commercial and the ancient Christian symbol of a fish as the backdrop in another. And he slipped Biblical quotes and paraphrases into his campaign rap -- even suggesting when he pulled an attack ad that he did so because "we want to do unto others as we wish they would do unto us."

It worked in Iowa, where evangelical Christians have been prime players in Republican politics for three decades.

A CNN survey of Republican caucusgoers Thursday found that six in 10 identified themselves as "born-again" Christians. Huckabee won the support of 46 percent of them, while just 19 percent backed Romney.

So it was that, while he was outspent by what he estimated to be a 15-1 margin, and while he faced a withering attacks from rival Mitt Romney's camp and independent groups, Huckabee was able to hold his position and score a remarkable statewide win in Iowa.

Iowa Senator Chuck Grassley, a Republican who did not endorse a candidate, bluntly said after Huckabee beat Romney by 10 points that the victory of the former Arkansas governor could be attributed to "loyalty from evangelical Christians."

To Grassley's view, Huckabee's scripture-sampling campaign was a smooth "fit" with Iowa evangelicals -- both stylistically and emotionally.

But now the campaign moves to New Hampshire, a state where the religious right has never enjoyed a political foothold. New Hampshire Republicans are anti-tax and anti-government crusaders, but they have never been Christian crusaders.

They also vote in a primary, as opposed to caucuses that favor campaigns with committed supporters who are willing to give not just a vote but a full evening to the cause.

So the Huckabee campaign is retooling itself fast.

Suddenly, the "Christian leader" is just a "leader."

Huckabee arrived in New Hampshire Friday morning with new literature that drops the religious references used in Iowa and plans for a television advertising campaign that will eschew the crosses and fish that meant so much to his Iowa base.

Huckabee is nothing if not consistent. Sure, he losing the religious trappings that served him well in Iowa, but he's remaining every bit the crassly calculating and cynically manipulative politician that he has proven himself to be from the start of this campaign.

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Maybe so... At least he hides it better than Hillary.

Ok truthers... I've seen the video.

The importance of Rush Limbaugh