tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-87836312012-01-29T14:03:12.274-08:00A blog is an unedited version of yourself.Trickish Knavenoreply@blogger.comBlogger5241100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8783631.post-53818605448169731362012-01-29T14:03:00.000-08:002012-01-29T14:03:12.286-08:00

Here is a lesson on cutting through the financial doublespeak from our politicians and getting down to the nitty gritty of our financial crisis by substituting the obscenely large numbers into something more tangible and relevant. U.S. Tax revenue: $2,170,000,000,000 Fed budget: $3,820,000,000,000 New debt: $ 1,650,000,000,000 National debt: $14,271,000,000,000 Recent budget

Trickish Knavenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8783631.post-84678608025658918712011-12-18T09:19:00.000-08:002011-12-18T09:25:28.218-08:00

Newt Gingrich is gaining momentum and losing headway on a daily basis and I am very surprised to hear anything about him at all. I remember in the late 80's and early 90's when he was an upcoming Minority Whip (and bouncing checks left and right) when he captivated us with his directness and ability to "tell it like it is", long before Oprah coined phrase with that loser Dr. Phil. But

Trickish Knavenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8783631.post-99137239069168252011-11-27T16:23:00.000-08:002011-11-27T16:24:13.468-08:00

It has been a few months now since the OWS crowd has descended upon our cities. At first, my preconceptions of them were "dirty, stinky hippies" since I could not fathom anyone with a job being able to hang out in parks all day and all night. Boy was I wrong. After caring enough to dig a little deeper into the movement I found that most of them in fact do have jobs. Granted there are only a few

Trickish Knavenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8783631.post-24867048658425410772011-11-01T08:27:00.000-07:002011-11-01T08:27:11.026-07:00

I can't even remember the last time I had the opportunity to post something ragging on the State of Hawaii. I don't keep up with the nonsense as much anymore and usually just laugh at the ridiculousness of the island mentality in some cases. But this recent story rekindled my belief that although people are stupid where ever you go, the people who live in Hawaii are a special kind of stupid.

Trickish Knavenoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8783631.post-43105087009170209282011-10-29T21:51:00.000-07:002011-10-29T21:51:29.486-07:00

I spent 20 years in the military and was subjected to random urinalysis. If I failed I would have been kicked out of the military with a dishonorable discharge. When I retired, I had to submit a urinalyis sample to start working at my current job. I work. I pay my taxes. The government distributes my tax money as they see fit to government assistance programs. Fine. Give my money to bums as you

Trickish Knavenoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8783631.post-27662838189564825302011-09-11T09:12:00.000-07:002011-09-11T09:15:56.833-07:00

I will not be watching September 11th stories today- in fact, I have never and I never will never call this day 9-11.  Pearl Harbor Day is not called 12-7 and I will not discredit the bravery of the American military with a catchy abbreviation. In my opinion, it is the equivalent of the internet and texting shorthand and it does not make me LOL.  I will not be scouring online news sources for

Trickish Knavenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8783631.post-5432732726916755202011-09-02T10:23:00.000-07:002011-09-02T10:23:36.931-07:00

Youch- 14 million Americans out of work with about 40% jobless for 6 months or more for the month of August.  To make matters worse, there was no increase in jobs for August - at all - and we remain stagnant at 9.1%. Whiskey Tango Foxtrot, over? The Times reported a few factors that contributed to this depressingly bleak outlook of the (once) great financially secure nation of the United States.

Trickish Knavenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8783631.post-69442465242946905352011-08-06T14:19:00.000-07:002011-08-06T14:19:04.554-07:00

Bad things happen in three's, this is especially true with celebrity deaths, but this week was a ringer for The Fates. First, earlier this week our debt ceiling was raised. It was a long process marred by sophomoric behavior on both sides and in the end the Democrats caved and Obama tried to pin the compromised on the American taxpayer under the guise of, "it has been your voices that have

Trickish Knavenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8783631.post-21968837904233399192011-07-04T10:55:00.000-07:002011-07-04T10:55:34.957-07:00

Happy Birthday America. It's been a hard 235 years and those familiar with our nation's history will know what I'm talking about. There were so many times during the fight for our country where the outcome rested on a single event that, had it not happened, would have changed the course for our country. I'm not just referring to the fight for our independence from Great Britain but all the fights

Trickish Knavenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8783631.post-52149274123090084522011-06-04T09:03:00.000-07:002011-06-04T09:07:24.315-07:00

Climate change is such a hot topic right now, no pun intended, and I have spent a long time sifting through both sides. The war between the deniers, the skeptics, the consensus and the alarmists is all based on evidence from both sides and both sides make compelling arguments. But that's not what I want to talk about since, at this point, you aren't going to sway either side. I recently found out

Trickish Knavenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8783631.post-78426902275371217482011-05-30T09:13:00.000-07:002011-05-30T09:17:52.718-07:00

Today is a time of remembrance when we pause, and in our own way, pay our respects to the men and women who have fought for this country, some even giving the  ultimate sacrifice for our freedoms. For some Americans ('some' being a conservative number) it is just another few-and-far-between three day weekend to get drunk, sleep and have an unexpected Valentine's Day baby while most consider today

Trickish Knavenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8783631.post-41519547037006872092011-05-29T18:17:00.000-07:002011-05-29T18:17:35.150-07:00

It appears that I have the only still photos of Mike Alessi's spill at Hangtown last weekend that left him KTFO for a few minutes. I missed the shot of him actually hitting as there was a sponsor sign in the way. But I also have the first shots of him lying on the ground with the first responders on the scene. Ha! Suck it pro MX photographers! 1. First pass 2. Airborne. First

Trickish Knavenoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8783631.post-48739342750199382602011-05-29T15:37:00.000-07:002011-05-29T15:48:43.245-07:00

Yes, it literally did. JR Hildebrand, 23 year old rookie from California, was poised to win the Indy 500 with just one lap to go and a good lead. Then, on the final corner of the final lap with the checker flag in sight, he effed it up in one of the most head shaking and unbelievable flubs as he crashed his National Guard sponsored car into the wall. That was all the time Dan Wheldon needed to

Trickish Knavenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8783631.post-73179404080096458342011-05-21T08:45:00.000-07:002011-05-21T08:47:57.388-07:00

May 21, at around 6 pm local time, was the predicted and calculated day of judgement by Harold Camping. I have friends in Australia, where it is well past 6 pm, and they are fine. No earthquakes, no bodies rising from their graves, no Rapture. Bummer, Harold. Disturbing that a site dedicated to saving people's souls and preaching the end wouldn't update its doomsday timer for 8 days previous to

Trickish Knavenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8783631.post-85994573036448778432011-04-30T08:52:00.001-07:002011-04-30T08:55:54.622-07:00

I enjoy reading The Huffington Post (HP) online and I am fully aware of their left leaning agenda. To be fair, and not present myself as a hard core conservative who will not listen to the viewpoints of others, there are some very good writers for HP who shed perspective on issues I may have already have an entrenched viewpoint who will cause me to step back and rethink my position. The reader

Trickish Knavenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8783631.post-72361053152915442382011-04-23T09:51:00.000-07:002011-04-23T09:51:34.236-07:00

Whenever I see a new site that attempts to define my political philosophy by asking 10 questions I just have to take the quiz. They all end the same- lumping me into the Republican category. Regardless of how "in-depth" the quizzes claim to be, however, they all suck. They suck because they do not take into account the people who do not have a yes or no position. I think many people do not really

Trickish Knavenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8783631.post-29616484842533269232011-04-10T10:12:00.000-07:002011-04-10T10:13:56.923-07:00

I was in the military when the first shutdown of my lifetime happened in November of 1995. The shutdown happened the day before payday and many civilians struggled for a week while both sides bickered about which items they would negotiate with as little backlash for future votes as possible.  The second shutdown happened in December of that same year and lasted almost a month. Needless to say,

Trickish Knavenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8783631.post-62803622455780008752011-03-20T09:32:00.000-07:002011-03-20T10:18:24.841-07:00

The people of the Middle East are fed up. All it took was a spark in Tunisia late last year to ignite a massive revolution a few months ago in Egypt. Now, the Libyans are fed up and realize that massing together to fight a tyrant is not such a bad idea. What amazes me is the hurried involvement of the United States and its Allies joining together to help the citizens of Libya. It didn't take the

Trickish Knavenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8783631.post-64060184784322167812011-03-17T10:38:00.000-07:002011-03-17T10:42:04.346-07:00

Stop buying iodide pills and geiger counters because a nucular (sic) reactor 5000+ miles away (from San Francisco) could have a meltdown. You are being stupid, ignorant and selfish. People in Japan need those pills more than you do. "But, Knave, you never know what could happen and it is better to be safe than sorry." Wrong- it is better to be informed than stupid. This is the reality of

Trickish Knavenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8783631.post-53621064892768002772011-02-13T11:29:00.000-08:002011-02-13T11:29:18.105-08:00

Time Saving Truth from Falsehood  and Envy, François Lemoyne, 1737  The fashionable trend of hating religion (specifically, Christianity) is almost as annoying as the Hollywood elite hating America. Atheists: Either get some new material or outsource your issue with religion to someone who can. Case in point, the atheist who used the truism "God helps those who helps themselves" to convince me

Trickish Knavenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8783631.post-70082151584217257822011-02-05T08:33:00.000-08:002011-02-05T09:10:55.929-08:00

We are just barely into February and already some local news has started to make way for a very long year. On top of a  year old boy who was kidnapped by his mother's ex-boyfriend last week (and later found dead in a canal), a Placerville, CA principal was shot to death last week by the school janitor. That last statement sounds like the beginning of a bad joke. Besides the tragedy of someone

Trickish Knavenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8783631.post-5031506169943989072011-02-01T08:15:00.000-08:002011-02-01T08:18:55.357-08:00

I was pleasantly surprised this morning to see that I had a comment to moderate on a post that I made back in 2004. It was about a trip to Hawaii my parents made and how I pointed out the baggies of sand you could buy at the airports and gift shops around the islands. A Hawaiian superstition states that it is bad luck to take sand off the islands for fear of angering Pele. Anyone remember the

Trickish Knavenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8783631.post-43399857182486538592011-01-23T08:56:00.000-08:002011-01-23T08:57:44.051-08:00

Don't always rely on Google Maps to get you somewhere quickly or by using the fastest route.  It would take about 35 days using the following route, although I don't know why the departure from the United States is in Washington state. San Diego would be a much quicker trip across the Pacific. Check out #31. Driving directions to Japan35 days 18 hoursI-84 W8,828 mi This route has tolls. United

Trickish Knavenoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8783631.post-20323789288470392052011-01-22T17:54:00.000-08:002011-01-22T17:54:45.116-08:00

In an effort to boost our economy, and ladle out of the poop pot what is left of this country, the President is pushing to open our trade with our foreign friends who own most of our economy (China owns 20% of the US Treasury). Obama has been wooing President Hu of China in an effort to have the country invest in the United States even further, and also request that China stop making us look like

Trickish Knavenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8783631.post-24728080761405697502011-01-02T11:58:00.000-08:002011-01-22T17:55:09.126-08:00

Hello, Kettle? This is Pot. You're black! Evidently, the immigrants that are passing through Mexico (to illegally enter the United States) are putting a strain on the country's resources, except for the drug cartel slavery trade, of course.  The hardships migrants face in Mexico have long been a source of discomfort for a country that lobbies hard for better treatment of its own immigrants in

Trickish Knavenoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8783631.post-53954728277492154802010-12-29T09:32:00.000-08:002010-12-29T09:32:29.186-08:00

Husband Store: A store that sells new husbands has opened in  Toronto , where a woman may go to choose a husband. Among the instructions at the entrance is a description of how the store operates: You may visit this store ONLY ONCE! There are six floors and the value of the products increases as the shopper ascends the flights. The shopper may choose any item from a particular floor, or may

Trickish Knavenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8783631.post-65214455917231358412010-12-12T09:58:00.000-08:002010-12-12T10:01:20.298-08:00

I spent the first part of the morning sending out complaints to TSA- they actually make it very easy to do so and even categorize the complaints for you. Click HERE to send a complaint to a half awake scrub who randomly reviews the incoming emails. I filled out 3 different forms, 2 complaints and 1 security issue. The first complaint was to voice my disdain for the way TSA Agents in Phoenix 

Trickish Knavenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8783631.post-76310793175319597922010-11-26T11:16:00.000-08:002010-11-26T11:16:21.432-08:00

The Opt Out movement during the Thanksgiving Day travel was a bust, proving that people will give up a little personal freedom to get through a line quicker. There were no long lines because of people being maliciously compliant with the new TSA security measures, although TSA did flinch a little and shut down many scanners in large airports. This looks staged to me but even if it is legit, I

Trickish Knavenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8783631.post-71608797945989331382010-11-14T09:47:00.000-08:002010-11-14T09:47:13.911-08:00

I recently received an email chain from my Grandfather concerning a woman named Irena Sendler who died in May of 2008. She was a Polish Catholic woman who saved more than 2500 children from the Nazi death camps during WWII. In fact, Irena went door to door and talked women into giving up their infants because she knew the impending doom that awaited them. She is known as the Polish Oskar

Trickish Knavenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8783631.post-84553904575942107402010-11-13T09:01:00.000-08:002010-11-13T09:01:44.645-08:00

A mysterious vapor trail was caught on tape Monday night by a CBS helicopter crew. This contrail was about 35 miles off the coast of Los Angeles and it has already dropped off the radar- no pun intended. Tuesday morning the FAA said there were no planes in the area. Military officials were stumped. Correction: they told us they did not know what it was, but that it looked like it came from the

Trickish Knavenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8783631.post-16902954866304971732010-10-23T12:04:00.000-07:002010-10-23T12:04:17.182-07:00

It was quite a spectacle on Thursday as I watched a local mall ablaze. The Galleria Mall is a scant 5 miles away but the plume of black smoke was easily visible from my office window. I was surprised to hear that this fire made national news until I started reading/watching the coverage. You can easily search for many articles and news clips about the fire but here is the short version. The

Trickish Knavenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8783631.post-64723151389609885302010-10-10T10:06:00.000-07:002010-10-10T10:06:45.127-07:00

I watched the trials and part of the Fontana Race yesterday. It was in southern California and the trials were, well, trials. When Danica Patrick, returning to NASCAR after moonlighting on the IndyCar circuit for a while, finished in the mid 30's everyone was swinging off her jock. Patrick is not the first female NASCAR driver but it seems to me that she has been thrust into the forefront

Trickish Knavenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8783631.post-9295975522051920932010-10-04T20:39:00.000-07:002010-10-04T20:39:33.208-07:00

My brother-in-law is a fireman and I can't wait to run this story by him. Imagine that your house is on fire, the fire department refuses to show up and when they do arrive, they put out your neighbors house and then leave- with your house still on fire. This isn't fiction, and it happened in a small town in Obion COunty Tennessee last weekend. I read about it on ThinkProgress.com as I was

Trickish Knavenoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8783631.post-6940522324877483112010-10-02T11:41:00.000-07:002010-10-02T11:46:13.055-07:00

As the Obama administration continues its World Apology Tour 08-12, Secretary of State Clin-ton formally apologized to the Guatemalan people for human STD experiments that were carried out in 1946. For two years, and with the approval of the Guatemalan government, the U.S. intentionally infected people by offering some sexy time with infected prostitutes. Since it is almost impossible to get men

Trickish Knavenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8783631.post-52495392831796924902010-09-29T15:11:00.000-07:002010-09-29T15:11:54.373-07:00

Here is an excerpt from a Facebook conversation concerning the Matt Lauer's Sept. 27th interview with Obama. A friend of mine was concerned about her toddler's education following the interview- and rightly so. Here is a truncated segment of her post (name have been reduced to intitials) that highlights her posts (CC), my responses (TK) and a friend of hers (ML) who decided to chime in. Authors

Trickish Knavenoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8783631.post-47674783033941609902010-09-19T21:59:00.000-07:002010-09-19T22:00:08.429-07:00

After reading the article about Bill Clinton giving advice to Obama, it is all starting to come together. Late night at their home in New York: Bill:  Hey Hillary. Good to see yo— Hillary: Shut up and sit down. I just got off an 11 hour flight from Jordan and I am in no mood. My ass is killing me. Bill: Sure thing Hillary. What’s up? Hillary:  Look, I just set up an interview for you with

Trickish Knavenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8783631.post-17581659646022129452010-09-18T19:12:00.000-07:002010-09-18T19:35:48.313-07:00

FROM THE OVAL OFFICEGood evening. It’s an honor to be speaking to you for the first time from the Oval Office.(Silence)Is it . . .  why isn’t it rolling? Thank you for letting me – CAN WE GET THE TELEPROMPTER WORKING???(Silence)CAN WE GET THE TELEPROMPTER WORKING???(Silence)OK, let’s just wing it. Thank you, my American fellows, for letting me into your homes, into your hearts, and out of your

Trickish Knavenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8783631.post-4130437194740744212010-09-16T21:13:00.000-07:002010-09-18T19:36:17.406-07:00

President Obama this morning is holding his first press conference in 35 years. Last night, I had a dream about how it would go. I warn you that my dreams always come true, like the one I once had about suddenly being able to eat anything I wanted without gaining weight. Well, actually, that one didn’t come true, and I should never have tried it. But here’s what I drempt last night. The Scene

Trickish Knavenoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8783631.post-58836824403295633322010-09-11T10:10:00.000-07:002010-09-11T10:11:33.755-07:00

Nine years have gone by since the attacks on American soil that killed 3,000 people. To this day, it is still the most vivid example of monstrous grotesqueness I have ever seen. I cannot help but to hold back tears. I do not have a long winded post for this anniversary, only pictures and a few short comments. First came Shock. Then the Horror. Then the Pain. Then Disbelief.Palestinians

Trickish Knavenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8783631.post-2817572865837191332010-08-28T10:18:00.000-07:002010-08-28T11:10:42.873-07:00

The media stir concerning the mosque near Ground Zero increased to egg whipping status last week as our Vacationer in Chief made a drive by disfavor before heading off to Martha's Vineyard for another lavish vacation at taxpayer's expense. It is old news by now that Obama will always side against America and Her best interests, (one of many examples: Hurting 100 million to help 9 million) but I

Trickish Knavenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8783631.post-54621714222582705302010-08-21T10:12:00.000-07:002010-08-21T10:12:29.567-07:00

While the Vacationer in Chief plays the back 9 in Martha's Vineyard this week, the housing crisis continues its tailspin. The housing market has been in decline since about 2007, the reasons being as varied as they are frustrating. The responsible parties are a different topic all together but the common denominator is that the housing lenders were very indiscriminate about whom they were

Trickish Knavenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8783631.post-19992383621902885262010-08-20T17:30:00.000-07:002010-08-20T17:30:13.553-07:00

Yes, you read that right- a video game addiction. Not heroin, ice, poi or crack but an addiction to the online game Lineage II, a game so lame that it throttles the imagination that anyone could become addicted to it. Craig Smallwood is filing a negligence suit against the game's creators because when he started playing (in 2004) there was no mention o the box of how a person with no life, no

Trickish Knavenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8783631.post-91229781063176293722010-08-10T18:23:00.000-07:002010-08-10T18:24:43.946-07:00

The blogosphere is alive with the headlines "Chivalry is Dead" over an Astro's fan who let a fly ball hit his date instead of catching it. I say they aren't reading into it enough. What happened to equal opportunity, to equal rights, to fairness? I submit that this fan was so enthralled with a fly ball heading his way that he declined to catch it, giving his girlfriend the rare opportunity of 

Trickish Knavenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8783631.post-75254404891719337362010-07-25T10:05:00.000-07:002010-07-25T10:05:54.345-07:00

Yes, you read that right. Nine legislators form Mexico came to AZ last week to complain about the strict AZ immigration laws. Evidently, Mexico ins't able to handle the influx of returning illegals. Excuse me while I guffaw.

Trickish Knavenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8783631.post-12350216541775558682010-07-24T15:06:00.000-07:002010-07-24T15:06:09.326-07:00

On December 9, 2009 Jason Green and his girlfriend, both New York City EMT's, were getting coffee and bagels in Brooklyn coffee shop when a 25 year old woman  who was 6 months pregnant began having a seizure. The EMT's, still in uniform, told the cashier to call 911 and left with their coffee and bagels. The woman and her baby died that day. The EMT's were suspended without pay and then faded

Trickish Knavenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8783631.post-77893645588762276552010-07-18T09:35:00.000-07:002010-07-18T09:35:15.618-07:00

Brutha's and sista's, let us pray for Obama using the following passage from the Good Book:  Psalm 109:8 "Let his days be few and brief; and let others step forward to replace him." Can I get an AMEN!

Trickish Knavenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8783631.post-84353837197234692692010-07-09T09:48:00.000-07:002010-07-09T12:45:36.372-07:00

Lebron James' announcement to switch to the Miami Heat has everyone who gives a flip about basketball (is it?) in a huge tizzy. Cincinnati is upset while in Miami there were reports of rioting, looting and dancing in the streets- just another normal day in Miami until they heard about the James decision. The full range of emotions can be found on Yahoo! Sports, the pinnacle of in-depth decisive

Trickish Knavenoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8783631.post-56655108780283048752010-07-09T08:26:00.000-07:002010-07-09T08:26:30.947-07:00

I found this link in my Inbox and decided to see what kind of smokescreen CBS's blog Political Hotseat was throwing down. The poll asks you to grade Obama, from an A to an F, in 10 different categories with the last category an overall grade for the President. Here are the issues: The Economy Foreign Policy Health Care Afghanistan Iraq Threat of Terrorism Energy and the Environment Social

Trickish Knavenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8783631.post-6240307695148774052010-06-26T14:33:00.000-07:002010-06-26T14:33:17.307-07:00

It was a good run United States. I didn't think they would get this far but we'll take all the cheezy goals we can get and all the ties we can squeek by with. I don't know what Coach Bradley said to his team at the half but perhaps he should have said it at the beginning of the game- it reminded me of the super lame Super Bowl 2008. I blame the candy ass soccer moms for this loss. Had you been

Trickish Knavenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8783631.post-67629208148155838342010-06-21T16:16:00.000-07:002010-06-21T16:16:52.364-07:00

The disgust of the Iraqi head of sports came to a climax when it was discovered that Uday, one of Saddam's sicko sons, tortured and murdered Iraqi professional athletes who lost games. In 1980 Iraq sent 46 athletes to the Olympic games; in 2000 they sent just 4 to the Games in Sydney. Hmm, right after Uday took over people stopped wanting to play sports for the country of Iraq. I wonder if the

Trickish Knavenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8783631.post-74830128450623385542010-06-08T19:27:00.000-07:002010-06-08T19:27:16.072-07:00

I recall going to my son's T-Ball game a number of years ago and watching his team beat the living piss out of the opponents. Granted, they were all 5 or 6 years old but it was still fun to watch. It had been a long time since I had witnessed a "Mercy Rule" in any game and was surprised to see the Umpire call the game only 25 or 30 minutes into the game- I think they were up 15 to 1 when the game

Trickish Knavenoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8783631.post-64657791786007697102010-05-30T10:22:00.000-07:002010-05-30T11:28:47.337-07:00

It has been 6 weeks since the Gulf oil rig Deepwater Horizon exploded killing 11 people. Had this horrible leak not happened perhaps we would hear a little more about them? Millions of gallons of oil have belched out of the crack in a pipe 5000 feet on the Gulf floor. Here is a link to a depressing live feed of the spill if you would like to see what oil looks like as it exits the earth: Oil

Trickish Knavenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8783631.post-16077997476002099002010-05-15T10:49:00.000-07:002010-05-15T10:49:18.054-07:00

I first learned of this story from Michael J. Totten's blog post A Most Disturbing Moment of Clarity. I would recommend reading MJT post as he is a brilliant writer and spent a considerable amount of time in the Middle East. I first started reading Horowitz about 6 years ago when I became interested in the Israeli-Palestine conflict. I knew the U.S. supported Israel and I thought it odd when a

Trickish Knavenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8783631.post-41652748411794721822010-04-29T22:20:00.000-07:002010-04-29T22:20:30.998-07:00

Arizona is hoping to do what the Federal government cannot by passing a controversial law intended to try and relieve the illegal immigrant problem within their state lines. I say controversial because that is the label it has been given by the majority of the morons in this country who get their news from Comedy Central or the 60 second radio snippet on their way to work. The 17 page document,

Trickish Knavenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8783631.post-28663744159902627492010-04-11T20:29:00.000-07:002010-04-11T20:29:47.507-07:00

I was going through some old files and had to install a Word Perfect converter to read an old archive. Many years ago I used to write at Gibe.com, in fact it is where I first started to write pseudo commentary (long) before Aloha Dump. I came across this gem in which I was in rare form and let someone named Horizon have it with both barrels. He was anti military, as evidenced by his post, and

Trickish Knavenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8783631.post-25022778569727004742010-04-10T10:46:00.000-07:002010-04-10T10:50:10.171-07:00

Here is a link to some of the most immersive photographs of the war theaters I have ever seen. The Pacific and Adjacent Theaters in WWII U.S. Marines Storming Iwo Jima February 1945

Trickish Knavenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8783631.post-1166630474031540382010-03-26T16:06:00.000-07:002010-03-26T16:06:42.135-07:00

"America's Sweetheart", Sandra Bullock, was apparently the last person to find out her husband was cheating on her. Why does news this surprise anyone and why do stories like this continue to dominate the headlines? And please, for the love of God, stop comparing Bullock to Tiger Woods' wife. At least everyone was shocked when the Tiger scandal surfaced; even as full as we were from the

Trickish Knavenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8783631.post-52182118443239030762010-03-17T20:03:00.000-07:002010-03-17T20:03:42.389-07:00

When Obama won the Presidency with the help of the LEFTIST Media, Hollywood and Entertainment Liberals, Ethnic Socialists (ACORN), Stupid Non-Business Professionals and Bush Haters, I wrote: It won’t take 6 months until the people figure this guy out and realize how horrible a mistake they’ve made. And when they come to that realization, the damage to the United States of America will be so

Trickish Knavenoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8783631.post-86676001275970125232010-03-14T11:57:00.000-07:002010-03-14T11:57:26.280-07:00

It has been almost a month since Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad told the U.N. and the rest of the World that the Holocaust was a crock of poo-poo, that Israel is a regime that "won't last long" and then continued on to talk about Iran's full-speed-ahead nucular (sic) program. That takes a gigantic set of balls, even bigger than self proclaimed genius and world proclaimed douchebag Kanye

Trickish Knavenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8783631.post-13367233849963727942010-02-27T09:11:00.000-08:002010-02-27T09:11:19.809-08:00

No, it isn't an Aesop Fable (Google it, you teenage turds, if you don't know who Aesop is) but a struggle between 2 animals in the dead of Winter. These shots were taken by a hunter in Montana with a cell phone camera. I would love to get images like these with my good camera. SOunds like a manly weekend in the making. I was going to try and craft something witty using these photos, like the

Trickish Knavenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8783631.post-80070723084917908082010-02-26T17:22:00.000-08:002010-02-27T09:19:53.374-08:00

Here is the statement from the latest sponsor of Tiger Woods Inc. to drop the poor guy. He and Sad Panda can hang out together. Sponsor says goodbye to Tiger

Trickish Knavenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8783631.post-82552650821236019752010-02-13T09:31:00.000-08:002010-02-13T09:31:47.201-08:00

Just inside one week after the Saints won Super Bowl XLIV (that's 44 if you didn't pass the 8th grade) the first Olympic Games of the new decade launched yesterday in Vancouver, Canada. Sorry, Chicago. Coincidentally, I had a short layover in O'Hare yesterday and all I could think about was how much different this airport would have looked had they not been bumped in the first round. I thought

Trickish Knavenoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8783631.post-73948482920196027672010-02-03T19:47:00.000-08:002010-02-03T19:47:38.337-08:00

Finally, an animal story worth reading about. This thing has predicted at least 50 deaths, even one where the doctors got it wrong, and sits with the person during the last day or so. Too bad it doesn't cause death as I have a few odd jobs for it. Oscar the Death Sniffing Cat

Trickish Knavenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8783631.post-2532993536521759742010-01-01T09:37:00.000-08:002010-01-01T09:38:20.858-08:00

Another year has gone by, another decade has flown by and now we will all have to get used to writing 2010 on our checks without double zeros.  Have we decided on how to say 2010? "Oh ten" sounds dumb so I think we will be stuck without an abbreviated year for a very long time. "Ten" just doesn't have the same pizazz that "Nine-seven" or all the other years had leading up to the changing of the 

Trickish Knavenoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8783631.post-9935159030736680262009-12-31T11:06:00.000-08:002009-12-31T11:06:41.475-08:00

It appears that my eagerness for racial profiling at airports really doesn't matter since we can't even rely on people to check the dates on an expired Visa. The school administrator who arranged for a taxi to take Umar back to the airport told reporters the taxi was the end of their responsibility for the Nigerian who came to Yemen to learn Arabic. To learn Arabic? Of course in hindsight that

Trickish Knavenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8783631.post-1929995321812226762009-12-27T10:03:00.000-08:002010-03-26T15:40:03.272-07:00

I bet Tiger Woods is glad the attempted Northwest Airlines flight 253 to Detroit made the headlines- maybe it will take the heat off him for a while. I am a little pissed, however, at the people who let Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab get on the damn plane in the first place. All the signs were there that this extremist lunatic should not be outside a cemetery let alone an airplane. Let's list them: 1

Trickish Knavenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8783631.post-19148937955219509442009-12-24T07:53:00.000-08:002009-12-24T07:53:15.958-08:00

While listening to the Christmas segment for this show I heard Dora's grating voice talking to Santa. I went to the television when I heard the singing and once again realized how much this show sucks. Up yours Nickelodeon. Santa Claus is not a Latino and he does not sing Feliz Navidad. He is a fat white guy with Type 2 diabetes and red cheeks. I know this is true because I saw him at the mall.

Trickish Knavenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8783631.post-54366047731560844382009-12-12T09:31:00.000-08:002010-03-26T15:42:30.324-07:00

I have restrained comment on the media fueled hysteria about Tiger Woods until now because, until the recent admission by the golf legend, it was all here say. My initial reaction was, "Great, here we go with all these bitches coming out of the wood work (no pun intended) to get their 15 minutes." I still believe that to be the case and that these mistresses are pulling a Lewinski- the only

Trickish Knavenoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8783631.post-41096428752104572682009-11-24T08:39:00.000-08:002009-11-24T08:39:19.237-08:00

Why is is ok for all these horny 30-40 year olds to swoon over the 17 year-old werewolf clown from this pseudo vampire gagger flick but when a man makes a comment about Hanna Montana he is labeled a pervert? I can't wait to hear how these "werewolves" act, especially since in the Twilight series the "vampires" sparkle like fairies when sunlight touches their skin. I am guessing this Latino wolf

Trickish Knavenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8783631.post-20882941115982969782009-11-21T08:02:00.000-08:002009-11-21T08:02:42.924-08:00

Chicago lost the bid for the 2016 Olympics and now they are losing Chicago based show The Oprah Winfrey Show. The one spiritual icon housewives have turned to for the last 24 years for all their news, what to buy, what to wear, who to show pity towards and who to despise and, last but not least, what the fuck book to read. Any bets on how long it will take the Obama's to comment? I echo Oprah's

Trickish Knavenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8783631.post-90972339461337916502009-11-11T10:46:00.001-08:002009-11-11T10:58:17.982-08:00

So long, asshole. Say hi to Saddam for me. My only regret, much to the despair of capital punishment opposition, is two-fold: 1) It took 7 years to finally execute this human detritus 2) He wasn't beaten to within an inch of his life and then given a slow-drip IV of Clorox. Lethal injection was too mild- an injection of Twinkie filling comes to mind. People at the execution were showing all

Trickish Knavenoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8783631.post-41576089641018594582009-11-05T15:13:00.000-08:002009-11-05T18:37:09.260-08:00

This 20 minute mini movie is a great ad for milk. Yep, milk. Dude reminds me of Zaphod Beeblebrox. Click on the title to get to the link. ...

Trickish Knavenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8783631.post-34868054720017997912009-11-04T20:35:00.000-08:002009-11-04T20:35:19.232-08:00

I debated on whether to commemorate this day by showing all the things Obama promised us a year ago when he took office or by writing about the jackass I followed today with a console DVD player in his car. I went with the latter only because it is just too easy to show how much of a turd this president has turned out to be. I rolled up behind a small car tonight on my way home and, since the

Trickish Knavenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8783631.post-70080080341415001822009-10-18T09:35:00.000-07:002009-10-23T18:36:37.503-07:00

I was in Dayton when the Balloon Boy hysteria hit and I just read caught up on the events leading up to today. This is a crock of shit story and I think the parents definitely have something fishy going on. What kind of a sicko launches a Roswell inspired balloon into the air and then tells the world a little boy is inside? Even more disturbing are the people in the balloon's flight path who

Trickish Knavenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8783631.post-7954916745112319812009-10-11T10:09:00.000-07:002009-10-11T10:11:24.822-07:00

Obama recently won the Nobel Peace Prize and the world is patting us on the back while internally Americans are ripping each other apart. The announcement from the Norwegian Nobel Committee caught the media off guard and non stop coverage ensued. There are definitely mixed feelings about the award and frankly, I couldn't care less. That award hit rock bottom for me when Yasser Arafat claimed 1/3

Trickish Knavenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8783631.post-42595073869110824692009-10-09T12:56:00.000-07:002009-10-09T12:56:08.217-07:00

A very large American manufacturer and its equally large Japanese competitor decided to hold a canoe race down the Detroit River, with the winner securing bragging rights for the following year. Both teams were given 30 days to develop their strategy and prepare their teams to reach peak performance before the race. On the big day, Team Japan won by a mile. Team America, very discouraged and

Trickish Knavenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8783631.post-73670640080719216882009-10-08T20:21:00.000-07:002009-10-08T20:21:37.236-07:00

When you pull in to San Diego, a trip south of the border is a must. I saw many street side "zebras" many years ago during an overnight romp in TJ- poor burros were painted and then laden with boxes of chicklets. Here is a story about a Gaza zoo who's owners used hair dye and masking tape to turn a donkey into a make shift zebra. WHy would this crazy Palestinian do such a thing? His reasons are

Trickish Knavenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8783631.post-15371186213955443242009-10-07T19:03:00.000-07:002009-10-07T19:03:31.765-07:00

Trickish Knavenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8783631.post-51791973132176343532009-10-04T15:49:00.000-07:002009-10-07T19:07:46.599-07:00

It appears Obama is pretty shaken up about it. I read the decision by the Olympic committee to dump Chicago in the first round. Watching the Obamas try and convince the committee to come to the U.S. was absolutely pathetic. That meeting was supposed to be about money, logistics and convincing the committee that Chicago could handle the swarm of people from around the world, not about having to

Trickish Knavenoreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8783631.post-85847976103303260912009-09-27T14:36:00.000-07:002009-09-27T14:36:39.611-07:00

For some reason I have felt very civic minded the last few weeks and after reading an article on the front page of Yahoo, More school: Obama would curtail summer vacation, I felt that I had to send a letter to the President. Obama has managed to piss off adults with his poorly planned and poorly executed programs over the last 9 months, but now he is going to piss off children, the future voter

Trickish Knavenoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8783631.post-22513778944092808932009-09-26T12:44:00.000-07:002009-09-26T12:44:30.276-07:00

If you would like to read some of the most ignorant, uninformed and unmoderated dialogue on the Internet then please, go visit Craigslist Politics forums. I only read the SFO metro and Sacramento boards but I would imagine the rest of the country has just as useless, racist and bigoted posts. And please, do not respond to these curiosities of natural selection because you will just get even more

Trickish Knavenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8783631.post-73204871984943796012009-09-26T09:47:00.000-07:002009-09-26T09:47:27.624-07:00

As I was reading about Obama's testicles finally dropping long enough to tell the anti-American world that they will be on their own from now on, I came across the story of a kindly Census worker, Bill Sparkman, who was found hanged to death in a Kentucky cemetery. How random is that? The police do not know if Sparkman was going door-to-door for work and came across some ignorant, backwards-ass,

Trickish Knavenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8783631.post-33981252558227231062009-09-23T19:22:00.000-07:002009-09-23T19:22:08.154-07:00

There has been significant study over the course of many decades trying to figure out why, statistically speaking, children born in the winter months have harder lives than those born in warm months. Believe it or not, it took a couple of economists to shed light on this phenomenon. Here is the link: The Plight of Winter Babies. Here is my Reader's Digest Condensed version: Babies concieved in

Trickish Knavenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8783631.post-55769367218550745372009-09-23T08:40:00.000-07:002009-09-23T08:40:57.630-07:00

Governor Schwarzennegger, I am writing to show my support and concerns for the Bill 962 that was passed on September 11, but awaits your signature to become law. I fully support the concept of full identity disclosure when buying ammunition and/or fire arms, however it seems that the law abiding citizens always suffer when strict laws are enforced. Tight restrictions do not seem to affect

Trickish Knavenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8783631.post-68121470704820572772009-09-22T20:32:00.000-07:002009-09-26T09:48:55.064-07:00

September 9, 2005 I have the midwatch now and it is going pretty slow. I had an interesting dream oncoming about zombies. I was beating them down with a tomahawk and a baseball bat. I was really kicking some zombie ass until I was awakened by someone yelling at Zach to get up for his training. Lower level berthing is just too small for people to be yelling like that. I got up about an hour later

Trickish Knavenoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8783631.post-15048957841153867972009-09-12T08:43:00.001-07:002009-09-12T11:22:32.473-07:00

During a televised speech to Congress in which Obama was discussing his new health care reform, South Carolina Representative Joe Wilson yelled out, "You lie!" when Obama stated that illegal immigrants will not be covered by the new plan. I'm glad that Wilson got that off his chest and expressed what millions also feel about this health care joke that this administration is trying to force feed

Trickish Knavenoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8783631.post-24394044591909894172009-09-05T16:02:00.001-07:002009-09-05T16:24:37.461-07:00

I recently acquired an Eagles discography which has every song they did from 1980 to the present. There are a lot of 'best of' albums in the list which bear a lot repetition but I do not mind burning up the disk space.I was very interested in finding the a cappella song Eagles performed called Seven Bridges Road. To my surprise, it is very hard to find. Wikipedia:The song was recorded live by

Trickish Knavenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8783631.post-22417589714976225262009-09-02T21:46:00.001-07:002009-09-02T21:51:35.511-07:00

Apparently, BP has found a billion barrel oil reserve in the Gulf of Mexico. How conveeeeeeeeeeeeeeenient....

Trickish Knavenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8783631.post-84965163901863115582009-09-02T20:08:00.000-07:002009-12-28T19:40:19.086-08:00

West Pac 1999 USS Los Angeles (SSN 688) July 1 – December 29, 1999 I found another green flip notebook this weekend affectionately referred to as a pocket brain. I kept a pocket brain with me all the time to keep notes and to jot down ideas etc. I found one from WestPac 1999, a few deployments before I started keeping an actual journal, complete with the obligatory profane statement on the side,

Trickish Knavenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8783631.post-77600938788284123782009-08-30T22:01:00.000-07:002009-08-30T22:07:15.821-07:00

I am a pack rat. A big fat sentimental pack rat. Two 60 quart Rubbermaid bins, stacked in my garage and a continuing eye-sore to my wife, are testament to my obsession to save anything with just an ounce of nostalgia- and those bins are just my Navy crap (that I can fit into those bins).I rummaged around in 2 other bins today to try and locate a network interface card for my new motherboard and

Trickish Knavenoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8783631.post-49092300904707362682009-08-26T09:31:00.000-07:002009-08-26T09:44:29.279-07:00

Senator Edward Kennedy from Massachusetts passed today from brain cancer, the first Kennedy in a while to actually die from natural causes, and I have mixed feelings about his passing. I really tried to like the guy over the last few decades but there was just something about him that I could never really warm up to. It isn’t the fact that he hauled ass from his car accident in 1969, leaving his

Trickish Knavenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8783631.post-18995168577800497002009-08-24T19:49:00.000-07:002009-08-24T20:53:12.903-07:00

There was a fight across the street from my house, much like the fights I used to see outside my lanai off of Salt Lake Blvd. in Honolulu. This one was different though- I am at ground level now and do not have the safety of elevation and discretion when it comes time for me to dispense vigilante justice at these hoodlums.I remember many a night (morning?) when I was awakened by the mischief of

Trickish Knavenoreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8783631.post-32643703315437631582009-08-24T16:19:00.000-07:002009-08-24T16:25:05.850-07:00

In a nutshell:"H.R. 3200 is a massive reordering of America’s health care services with a heavy bias toward injecting the government’s judgment in place of doctors, installing bureaucratic control in place of patient discretion and enacting significant tax increases in hopes of stemming the deficit busting costs of the new programs."Here is a great breakdown of the current revision of H.R. 3200,

Trickish Knavenoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8783631.post-45386619022474911472009-08-23T18:37:00.000-07:002009-08-23T18:48:57.182-07:00

It appears that some members of our government are having a momentary lapse of reason and are admonishing Obama to slow down and tackle one thing at a time. Senator Joe Lieberman must have caught Ben Stein's piece.

Trickish Knavenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8783631.post-16339467579400532052009-08-23T16:56:00.000-07:002009-08-23T16:59:40.138-07:00

I don't know whether this is funny or sad, but while Googling my blog I came across a cake with the same name.Aloha Dump Cake

Trickish Knavenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8783631.post-48128322293827855372009-08-23T09:04:00.000-07:002009-08-23T09:42:49.618-07:00

I will never admit to being a Star Trek purist but I watched the television show as a kid and all the movies. I don't really care for The Next Generation and all the spin offs, but they are not that bad to watch. I rarely see movies in the theatre and prefer to sit in my own home and wear whatever I want, all the while eating my own cheapy Scooby Snacks. I really liked the new Star Trek movie.I

Trickish Knavenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8783631.post-14705556887702886402009-08-22T10:21:00.008-07:002009-08-22T11:12:18.002-07:00

Old news by now, but I have been out of the country on business and just didn't have time to comment on the recent release of "Abdel Basset Mohamed al-Megrahi, the only individual convicted in the 1988 bombing of Pan American World Airways Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland." When this disaster happened I was just into my first year in the Navy, and had just met my first boat in Guam when a

Trickish Knavenoreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8783631.post-84437905865218733372009-08-17T12:53:00.004-07:002009-08-17T13:19:45.059-07:00

It had to happen sooner or later, Tiger's impresssive record run at winning the PGA Championships came to a halt today. South Korea is shitting in their collective pants as Y.E. Yang becomes the new rock star for the country. I'm sure Kim Jong Il is pissed at the win because South Korea is in the spotlight. Asshole.Yang finished 3 strokes ahead of Tiger and made some incredible shots. Tiger's

Trickish Knavenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8783631.post-62509861768797166472009-08-15T18:48:00.003-07:002009-08-15T19:01:47.119-07:00

A Bajan proverb (loosely) states: The higher the monkey climbs a tree, the more he shows his ass. I can't think of a better proverb-to-practice than this video clip of our Secretary of State, Horseface Clinton, shitting all over someone in Congo. Yes, Congo. Jon Stewart had a great piece on the translater faux pas but here is the real story.I suspect that she will run like a Kennedy from a car

Trickish Knavenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8783631.post-10844529120404492702009-08-14T20:04:00.006-07:002009-08-14T20:28:30.697-07:00

I read an article about the blasphemous posting of 500 pictures of Obama with an eerie touch up to look like The Joker. Aboslutely brilliant. I would have to agree with the author of Atlas Shrugs that it is becoming more and more difficult to get away with disagreeing with the President. Freedom of speech doesn't seem to apply when it makes him look bad. For example, this picture was deemed "

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