Is idiocy catching?

I'm really getting sick of idiots. Anything from the hate speech from the far left types who are still complaining AlGore is the true president and savior of mankind to my relatives who argue for days over what to have for Christmas dinner and who should buy that particular item.

Idiots are all over the road. No one actually has to learn to drive to get a license. I live next to a 75mph highway and watch people just drive down the ramp at 50 or so and out into traffic. The thought of "merging" never enters their heads.

Idiots work in every store I have to shop at. Ring something up wrong? Have to call the manager because I'm too stupid to fix it. I've even seen a cash register with a video display on it showing a picture of the cash drawer with numbers on the compartments showing how to make change. Two from here, one from over there and now three of these. Thank you sir have a good day. They also don't know to put the coins into your hand first. They'd rather put them on top of the bills so they slide off, fall on the floor and delay things even more than they are.

No wonder we get idiots to run the country. Most of the citizens of this country are idiots so why not elect some one just like themselves?

Wednesday

It's that day of the week again. I'll head down there around 11 or so to see what's going on. Normally they have a hot dog cart there at mid-week with some of the best dogs I've ever had. He's been AWOL the last three weeks though claiming opening a real brick and mortar store was eating up too much of his time.

Beating Swanson to the punch

http://masstraveljournal.com/features/1101chrisban.html

Seems he fits right in with the Puritans. ;)

American Dream

Here's someone starting the American dream. Of course if you listen to the news outlets the dream is long dead but I don't believe it.

So called conservative friends of mine already hate the thought of the next president but they're still better than most liberals. I may be wrong but it seems most liberals actually hate the "man" rather than disagree with his policies.

This just doesn't make sense to me. I disagreed with just about any policy coming from Bill Clinton but still would have him over to the house for a drink and a cigar. I'd supply the cigar though.

Liberals on the other hand wouldn't have "W" within a mile of them. The biggest reason seems to still be the little war in Iraq. They seem to be unable to understand that every American man and woman over there is there because they want to be. All servicemen have either re-enlisted or enlisted while the war was being prosecuted so they all must want to be there.

Vacation Home

The stock market tanked a bit more today so I guess this is where we are heading according to the fear mongers. They blamed it on Obama not getting in front of the cameras to say what he's about to do to fix it. Now call me old fashioned but why blame him (and I don't like him at all) when he's not the guy in charge yet.

The good old days.

David has been talking about the good old days lately. This is all pre-internet days for most of us. I'm not certain if they were all that good and I know we were not that old. Mostly I remember the nights anyway.

Here's an old shot from back then just scanned from an old print. It's somewhere in 1975-1976 while I was stationed in Korea. Taken with a Yashica Mat 124G and most likely on Tri-X as that's almost all I ever used back then. It was a good camera and lots of fun with many hours spent in the darkroom. Would I go back to this? Not on your life. I'm all digital and will be that way until they invent the hand held hologram camera or something like it.

2009

The local diner for "Diners, Drive Ins and Dives for next year. No money left over after the new higher taxes for fixing the place up.