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Things on my mind recently…

• Who can be hurt by Palin's recent decision? Palin. Who will be hurt by Obama's actions? Everyone. Why the focus on Palin? #tcot #
• Secret to How Dinosaurs Got So Big Is Revealed http://tr.im/rxi6 65-million year old box of Wheaties discovered #
• Doctor: Michael Jackson Was an Addict http://tr.im/rxma That makes his fans addict addicts. Which explains a lot. #
• TiVo says it recorded Robot Chicken. When I play it, it's Squidbillies. Does TiVo hate me? Or Adult Swim programming department? #
• Now TiVo recorded Metalocalypse instead of ATHF. I think I'm paying a visit to Williams Street. #
• State Suit Challenges U.S. Defense of Marriage Act http://tr.im/rxr4 Suddenly, liberals agree with the 10th Amendment? #tcot #
• Atlanta traffic rated 3rd worst in nation, behind LA, DC http://tr.im/rxuH So why would I rather drive in Atlanta than Chicago? The drivers. #
• Who knows where the bodies are buried in Chicago? No one knows any more: http://tr.im/rxwL #
• Amazon cuts Kindle price http://tr.im/rxyo BK cuts cheeseburger prices http://tr.im/rxyF Strangest price war ever #
• No flyover for Christian festival http://tr.im/rxA9 Maybe if they were told it was for an Obama photo-op #tcot #
• FLOTUS carries $6000 purse http://tr.im/rxBc Apparently the economy is doing very well #tcot #
• Ohio family attacked because they are White http:/tr.im/ryw7 Hating Whites isn't a crime #tcot #
• Congress needs to learn: All throwing money at a problem does is make for an expensive problem. #tcot #
• 5-year-old man have witnessed parents' murder-suicide http://tr.im/rB8F #
• 5-year-old may have witnessed parents' murder-suicide http://tr.im/rB8F #
• More spelling errors plague Obama releases http://tr.im/rDWm Spelling skills no better than math skills #tcot #
• Yippie-ki-yay, you bad, bad person! #1stdraftmovielines #
• Frankly, my dear, I haven't though about it #1stdraftmovielines #
• I'm gonna make him an offer he'll probably agree to #1stdraftmovielines #
• Toto, I've got a feeling we're not where I'm used to being #1stdraftmovielines #
• All right, Mr. DeMille, I'm ready for you to bring the camera in all the way so my face takes up the screen #1stdraftmovielines #
• "Synthetic or semisynthetic organic amorphous solid materials suitable for the manufacture of industrial products" #1stdraftmovielines #
• "I'll get you, my pretty, plus that canine you have" #1stdraftmovielines #
• "Hello, Adrian" #1stdraftmovielines #
• "Shane. Shane. Please return!" #1stdraftmovielines #
• "We'll always have that city in France." #1stdraftmovielines #
• "Round up the usual people we round up." #1stdraftmovielines #
• "Love means never having to say 'oops, my bad.'" #1stdraftmovielines #
• "I really don't think you want to hear the truth" #1stdraftmovielines #
• What we've got here is … trouble understanding each other #1stdraftmovielines #
• Yes, it was the airplanes killed the beast #1stdraftmovielines #
• "Mom, Dad, Sis, and I really appreciate this." #1stdraftmovielines #
• "What a really awful-looking place." #1stdraftmovielines #
• "A boy's best friend is his psychotic personality." #1stdraftmovielines #
• "You're dead, and that's why I see you." #1stdraftmovielines #
• "I am traveling by foot across this intersection!" #1stdraftmovielines #
• "You know how to whistle, don't you? You just put your lips together and expel air at a high rate of speed." #1stdraftmovielines #
• The way ya lollygaggin' around here with them picks and them shovels, you'd think it was a 120 degree. And it might be. #1stdraftmovielines #
• "Forget it, Jake, it's the Hamptons." #1stdraftmovielines #
• "Secure your restraints, we may encounter some uneven circumstances this evening" #1stdraftmovielines #
• Trying to watch Warehouse 13. I hope it's better than the SciFi Channel's new name #
• TiVo has (in Suggestions) a History Channel show on Gamma Ray Bursts, and how they can destroy the Earth. I'll sleep comfy tonight. #
• 1939: Wizard of Oz, Gone with the Wind, Stagecoach, Mr. Smith goes to Washington; 2009: Transformers 2, Paul Blart: Mall Cop #
• When the legend becomes fact, print the talking points #1stdraftmovielines #
• Squeal like a kitten #1stdraftmovielines #
• Why don't ya come up some time and we'll have a nice little visit #1stdraftmovielines #
• My name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare for me to express my extreme displeasure. #1stdraftmovielines #
• You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means. #1stdraftmovielines They actually got that line right first time. #
• NOT TO FORTY-NINE! #1stdraftmovielines #

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Things on my mind recently…

• They could still do the Michael Jackson tour. Leave him in that gold casket, add Bubbles and the Elephant Man, and tour like King Tut. #
• Wallet Stolen in 1982 Found in Central Park Tree http://tinyurl.com/mc6tl7 How could the victim not notice a tree stealing his wallet? #
• Secret Service Website taken out by Cyber attack http://tr.im/rl3z Thank goodness it didn't interfere with Jacko's funeral #tcot #
• Did SciFi change its name to SyFy because so many of their viewers couldn't spell "SciFi"? Or did they lose a bet with Spike? #
• Okay, first SciFi is now SyFy. Now, TiVo's CN/Adult Swim schedule is all buggered up. I blame the Jacko funeral coverage. #
• Google announces a new operating system, available in 2010, and runs on top of Linux http://tr.im/rlb6 Or you could just get Linux now #
• Need Some Weed? Just Check Twitter http://tr.im/rliR Does this mean that Twitter is a gateway app that could lead to (gasp) blogging? #
• Microsoft Warns of Serious Browser Security Problem http://tr.im/rlmq In other words, it's Tuesday #
• Daily Dose of Caffeine May Cure Alzheimer's, Scientists Find http://tr.im/rloB If true, I'm good until 2058 #
• Jesus is open for business http://sml.vg/5tozYG #
• Two Columbus escapees captured in Las Vegas http://tr.im/rnLQ Seems what happens in Vegas doesn't always stay in Vegas #
• Even T. Boone Pickens says wind power blows http://tinyurl.com/labmdk #
• Maybe they're sending Biden to Ohio to improve Obama's numbers, thinking Obama will look smart in comparison http://tr.im/rnSi #tcot #
• Just drove past a guy riding a bicycle, carrying a vacuum cleaner. Miss Gulch's brother has dumped the broom and gone high-tech. #
• I wonder how many people who say they wouldn't vote for Palin now, would actually have before last Friday anyway. #tcot #
• This must be the lines that carry the wood for Red Lobster's wood-fired grill. http://sml.vg/DIu6yd #
• Lunch at the Red Lobster. And they got Michael Frikkin' Jackson on the "news" channel on the TV. Life sucks. #
• Good news for Obama: His approval rating is still better than Hitler's. In most polls, at least. #tcot #
• Hey! If I drive across the river to Central Time, I'll be able to do 12:34:56 7/8/09 again! #
• "An exciting new Chevron is coming soon." And nothing says excitement like a Chevron station! http://sml.vg/4KzvUm #
• White House spells POTUS' name wrong http://tr.im/rsnZ They keep putting a "B" in place of the "S" #
• Dallas PD cuts security for home of former president Bush http://tr.im/rtDz But bankrupt LA can provide security for Jackson funeral #tcot #
• Naked man shows up for dental appointment http://tr.im/rtPH Dentist refuses to fill his cavity #
• Oscar Mayer dies http://tr.im/rtWF Will his body be carried to the cemetery in the Weinermobile? #

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Things on my mind recently…

• POTUS: The future does not belong to those who gather armies … or plant missiles http://tr.im/reKg Peace Moonbeam speaks in Moscow #tcot #
• Good news: Pizza Hut for lunch. Bad news: They have TV on showing Jacko's funeral. Good news: They are finally burying that SOB. #
• Some news head just said they'd be covering Jacko's funeral for "many more hours." #
• If Moses was trying to free his people today, he'd threaten Pharaoh with non-stop Michael Jackson funeral coverage. #
• As much as I've been fighting to stay awake in this meeting, at least they aren't showing PowerPoints of Michael Jackson. Yet. #
• Day-long Meeting From Hell is done. Anybody heard anything about Michael Jackson's funeral. Isn't it today? #
• New monkey discovered in Brazilian Amazon http://tr.im/rieq Brazilian Amazon really likes her new monkey #
• Wife has had a poopy day at work. I've been dealing with jackasses. Heading home, we're encountering every poopy jackass driver in town. #
• I have no idea what that song is playing in this Chinese restaurant, but I think the words go "the line broke, the monkey got choked…" #
• Wife wants to stop at PetSmart to get some fish conditioner. I don't know what that is, but I don't think Miss Clairol makes it. #
• 40 people watch Jacko's funeral at Columbus theatre http://tinyurl.com/n3dmt7 I'm happy there are only 40 of those idiots in town. #
• They have a Code*Adam sign on the door at PetSmart. Shouldn't they also have a Code*Lassie sign, too? #
• Hell! Even XM 70s On 7 is talking about Michael Jackson. Time to listen to Lionel Hampton and Artie Shaw on 40s On 4 #
• Would Michael Jackson's funeral have been a big a deal if it happened before he went ape-shit crazy? #
• There were some jackasses on the road this afternoon. I could hardly drive and Tweet without getting run over. Geesh! #
• I TiVo the two local news programs at 6:00 every night. Watching them now. Since when did Michael Frikkin' Jackson become a local story! #
• Sent Wife a text message earlier today: I <3 U. She wanted to know what the hell "I is less than 3 U" has to do with anything. #
• Wait until Al Sharpton finds out they didn't have a riderless horse at Michael Jackson's funeral. #
• Wife put some small plants in new aquarium a couple of weeks ago. It now looks like a Stephen King story in there with all that growth. #
• Watching Wizard Of Oz. Now, if I can only find my copy of Dark Side Of The Moon. #

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Things on my mind recently…

• Israel releases Cynthia McKinney http://tr.im/r2U7 See what happens when we piss Israel off? They release plagues upon us! #tcot #
• Former Atlantan happy as Fox News anchor http://tr.im/r2Zd I catch Special Report on my TiVo every day #
• UGA pays two frats $2.4 million to move http://tr.im/r30i Wouldn't it have been easier to put them on double-secret probation? #
• Neighbors complain about transgender prostitutes http://tr.im/r32S This is why Palin and Jacko are news. Otherwise, you'd be reading this! #
• TV and Obama: mutual love affair http://tr.im/r34p I say they can both go f**k themselves #
• 140 dead in riots; China government vs Muslims http://tr.im/r36e Who do you support in this? Capone or Moran? #tcot #
• Madonna pays tribute to Michael Jackson http://tr.im/r3CU Michael Jackson and Madonna in one story? I've died and gone to hell. #
• Wife an I have ordered the same thing from the same McDonald's each work day for the last week, and it's been a different price each time. #
• Yay! I won in the Michael Jackson memorial service lottery! My name was NOT drawn! #
• Biden: Israel free to set own course on Iran http://tinyurl.com/r9qdns How bad is this administration when Biden is the sensible one? #tcot #
• Michael Jackson to be buried without his brain http://is.gd/1pnuT Now we know why he played the Scarecrow in The Wiz #
• Michael Jackson's Doctor Couldn't Prescribe Cough Syrup http://tinyurl.com/nhc9yx No problem, since that's not what he prescribed for Jacko #
• Watching Harold and Kumar Go To White Castle. Life is good. #
• The nearest White Castle is 349 miles away. No, Krystal isn't the same thing. #
• Although the nearest White Castle is 349 miles away, they have frozen White Castle burgers at the Winn-Dixie. #
• Now, I'm trying to decide how bad I want a burger. Winn-Dixie is closed, so White Castle is out. Do I want to drive to town for a Krystal? #
• If I turn on a History Channel program on the TiVo, I'll be asleep soon, then I won't need to head to Krystal. So, TiVo, or Krystal? #

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It’s been a while since I reported serious news. That was a lifetime ago as a small-town radio reporter. But, I decided to sign up as a Citizen Reporter for PJTV. I mean, why not?

Anyway I decided to cover the Tea Party in Columbus today, and filed this report:

Transcript:
Columbus, Georgia’s third largest city, didn’t have the problems Atlanta had when it came to scheduling its Independence Day Tea Party. Although Atlanta’s was canceled, the Tea Party in Columbus went off as scheduled on July 4th.

The local event did not get a lot of publicity. Only one reporter from the local TV media, covering for the Fox and ABC affiliates, was seen covering the event.

Still, between 250 and 300 people, most from Columbus, but some from across the river in Alabama, braved the hot Georgia sun and temperatures in the 90s, and showed up in front of the Government Center from 4:00 to 6:00 PM to protest taxes and government spending, particularly focusing on health care, but also taking shots at cap and trade legislation.

Local pastor Dan Gates used his platform to call for continuance of the things that made this country great.

The spirit of Liberty that has burned in America for 233 years. In liberty’s true meaning, we see no reason for change! … Bless the strength of America’s people unpon which a nation unparalleled has been built. In those Americans, who echo the cry of free men, duty, and honor and country, we see no reason for change.

Speaker Josh McKoon, a Columbus attorney who is running for the Georgia State Senate, issued a warning to the Congress that the people have had enough regulation and taxes.

If you continue to allow more regulations and more taxes, then, by God, the people of this country are going to rise up in the elections that are coming next year and take this country back!

The two-hour event concluded with a march around the Government Center.

The Columbus Tax Party is planning a protest on the 17th of July at the office of Democratic 2nd District Congressman Sanford Bishop, who represents Columbus and voted for the Cap and Trade legislation.

Afterwards, Columbus Tea Party organizer Sandy Toth said she became involved in a political cause for the first time, protesting the spending of former president George W. Bush’s administration.

Going back to where the bailouts started last fall, under Bush, I was protesting all the spending, you know, and nobody’s listening. … After we had the change of administration, I continued to protest. And what really got me upset was that they, when they rammed the stimulus bill through, there was a bunch of health care provisions nobody discussed, nobody knew about.

Toth said that, besides the larger events, her organization is planning many small events around the area, trying to raise awareness.

We’re having mini-protests on street corners. Because for a rally like this, we have to get a police permit and everything, but if we just have a few of us on a street corner, we don’t need a permit, so we’re thinking about going out two days a week on a street corner with our signs. … We’re doing everything we can to try to spread the word to people to start learning the issues and fighting back.

IN CONGRESS, July 4, 1776.

The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America,

When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.–That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, –That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.–Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world.

• He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.
• He has forbidden his Governors to pass Laws of immediate and pressing importance, unless suspended in their operation till his Assent should be obtained; and when so suspended, he has utterly neglected to attend to them.
• He has refused to pass other Laws for the accommodation of large districts of people, unless those people would relinquish the right of Representation in the Legislature, a right inestimable to them and formidable to tyrants only.
• He has called together legislative bodies at places unusual, uncomfortable, and distant from the depository of their public Records, for the sole purpose of fatiguing them into compliance with his measures.
• He has dissolved Representative Houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly firmness his invasions on the rights of the people.
• He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected; whereby the Legislative powers, incapable of Annihilation, have returned to the People at large for their exercise; the State remaining in the mean time exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within.
• He has endeavoured to prevent the population of these States; for that purpose obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migrations hither, and raising the conditions of new Appropriations of Lands.
• He has obstructed the Administration of Justice, by refusing his Assent to Laws for establishing Judiciary powers.
• He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone, for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries.
• He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harrass our people, and eat out their substance.
• He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures.
• He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil power.
• He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his Assent to their Acts of pretended Legislation:
  • For Quartering large bodies of armed troops among us:
  • For protecting them, by a mock Trial, from punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States:
  • For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world:
  • For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent:
  • For depriving us in many cases, of the benefits of Trial by Jury:
  • For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences
  • For abolishing the free System of English Laws in a neighbouring Province, establishing therein an Arbitrary government, and enlarging its Boundaries so as to render it at once an example and fit instrument for introducing the same absolute rule into these Colonies:
  • For taking away our Charters, abolishing our most valuable Laws, and altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments:
  • For suspending our own Legislatures, and declaring themselves invested with power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever.
• He has abdicated Government here, by declaring us out of his Protection and waging War against us.
• He has plundered our seas, ravaged our Coasts, burnt our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people.
• He is at this time transporting large Armies of foreign Mercenaries to compleat the works of death, desolation and tyranny, already begun with circumstances of Cruelty & perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the Head of a civilized nation.
• He has constrained our fellow Citizens taken Captive on the high Seas to bear Arms against their Country, to become the executioners of their friends and Brethren, or to fall themselves by their Hands.
• He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has endeavoured to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Indian Savages, whose known rule of warfare, is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions.

In every stage of these Oppressions We have Petitioned for Redress in the most humble terms: Our repeated Petitions have been answered only by repeated injury. A Prince whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people.

Nor have We been wanting in attentions to our Brittish brethren. We have warned them from time to time of attempts by their legislature to extend an unwarrantable jurisdiction over us. We have reminded them of the circumstances of our emigration and settlement here. We have appealed to their native justice and magnanimity, and we have conjured them by the ties of our common kindred to disavow these usurpations, which, would inevitably interrupt our connections and correspondence. They too have been deaf to the voice of justice and of consanguinity. We must, therefore, acquiesce in the necessity, which denounces our Separation, and hold them, as we hold the rest of mankind, Enemies in War, in Peace Friends.

We, therefore, the Representatives of the united States of America, in General Congress, Assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the Name, and by Authority of the good People of these Colonies, solemnly publish and declare, That these United Colonies are, and of Right ought to be Free and Independent States; that they are Absolved from all Allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political connection between them and the State of Great Britain, is and ought to be totally dissolved; and that as Free and Independent States, they have full Power to levy War, conclude Peace, contract Alliances, establish Commerce, and to do all other Acts and Things which Independent States may of right do. And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor.

Things on my mind recently…

• Got the day off today, and can sleep late. And here I am, up and about. Boy, am I a dumbass! #
• Scott Ott reads the Declaration of Independence http://tr.im/qKTJ #tcot #
• Since cable company reconnected us (after disconnecting us in error) some channels have terrible reception. I'm making a visit in person. #
• Do NOT attempt to put on a shirt while standing under a ceiling fan. Just sayin'. #
• I wonder why I haven't heard of Obama trying to take over the oil companies. Or did I just f**k up and give them an idea? #tcot #
• Apple blames iPhone overheating on weather http://tinyurl.com/kqa9zb Who knew it got hot in summertime? #tcot #
• I so much want to write a blog post about this: http://is.gd/1mrZ9 I even have the title: "Nigaz give me gas" #
• I know what a male is compensating for when he drives a too-big pickup. But what about a female? #
• Every time I put up a new mailbox, I forget to allow room for the door to open. Thankfully, no one is watching today. http://sml.vg/1nUQ6M #
• Cable guy just left. Getting all the channels now, and clearly. I didn't miss any breaking news, did I? #
• Maybe Palin is moving to Georgia to run for Governor next year. A guy can hope. #tcot #
• Any bets on Palin showing up on a cable news channel this fall (a la Huckabee)? #tcot #
• Here's a radical idea: Maybe Gov. Palin said what she meant and meant what she said. #
• Scrappleface: Palin Quits to Spend More Time with Couric, Gibson http://tr.im/qO4Z #tcot #
• Did Bill Kristol say Palin was "crazy like a fox?" Or "a crazy little fox?" #
• Powell airs doubts on Obama agenda http://tr.im/qOcI Thanks, General, for finally realizing what real conservatives knew all along #tcot #
• I heard Gov. Palin was depressed over Michael Jackson's death #
• Any word from David Shuster yet if Michael Jackson's musical future is "done?" #
• Disney adds robotic Obama to attraction http://tr.im/qOgw Still awaiting robotic teleprompter. Then no one could tell the difference. #tcot #
• U.K. Blind Man Sees Wife for First Time After Having Tooth Implanted in Eye http://tr.im/qOh8 Must have been his eye tooth #
• Mexican Midget Wrestlers Killed by Fake Prostitutes http://tr.im/qOif Finally! A story to take Jacko and Palin off the front pages! #tcot #
• Is Palin really going to move to the U.S. and run for president? #tcot #
• Is it true that Sarah Palin is starting a new political party? #
• The only thing wrong with politics is politicians #
• The only thing wrong with journalism is journalists #
• Obama to Avoid Father's Kenyan Homeland on Trip to Africa http://tr.im/qOwk I was hoping he'd seek out the manger he was born in #
• I heard Palin was tired of hunting moose, and was moving to Louisiana to hunt swamp sharks http://tr.im/qOxR #tcot #
• Reuters: Would you pledge your soul as loan collateral? http://tr.im/qOzg It worked for Obama #tcot #
• I'm still waiting on Sarah Palin to call and ask me to be her running mate in 2012 #
• If life was a western, Sarah Palin would be riding off into the sunset, and there'd be tears in people's eyes #
• Now that cable is fixed and channels are watchable I need to watch all the poor broadcast quality shows that TiVo recorded #
• PRNK fires two mid-range missiles http://tr.im/qPqR Attention Whore files missiles at home state of Attention Whore #tcot #
• Deer tramples pet dog in Westwood backyard http://tr.im/qPtQ Bambi gets revenge #
• Death of Sailor May be a Gay Hate Crime http://tr.im/qPuV Shocking! Imagine that hate may be involved in murder! #
• Jackson shared a bond with Diana Ross' http://tr.im/qPwj Also shared a nose, chin, and gender #
• New Delhi Lifts Ban on Gay Sex http://tr.im/qPyf Only taboos and sacred cows left in India are … wait for it … sacred cows #
• Tickets Available by Lottery for Jackson Memorial http://tr.im/qPzG Winners gets one ticket. Losers get two tickets. #
• Report: Obama to use NSA to monitor Net http://tr.im/qPAK Be careful what you say or you might suddenly dis… . . . #
• Incoming IAEA chief: No hard evidence Iran seeking nukes http://tr.im/qPBX Ahmadinejad saying so isn't enough proof #tcot #
• Much-needed tax refunds delayed from Ga. to Calif. http://tr.im/qPG9 East of GA and west of CA, you're okay. #
• Microsoft withdraws offending 'puke ad' http://tr.im/qPIL Why can't we get TV like that in the U.S.? All we get is 24/7 Michael Jackson #
• Foo Fighters to Rock White House Fourth of July Bash http://tr.im/qPJu To play official Obama administration song, "Long Road to Ruin" #tcot #
• Remember, Jim Brown had many more years of football in him when he decided to walk away #tcot #

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Things on my mind recently…

• Former South Atlantic League president John H. Moss has dies http://tr.im/qAgO In minor league baseball, he's a celebrity #
• Got called in to work early (3:55 AM). Good news is I got the Early Bird price on breakfast at the canteen. Bad news is the 3:55 AM thing. #
• Every time we idiot-proof something, along comes a bigger idiot. #
• Black socks, shoes, pants, shirt, tie, even underwear. The folks at work don't want to mess with me today. #
• The answer to concerns about the census is easy: lie your ass off. #tcot #
• In full Darth Vader mode today. Not the wimpy "I miss Padme," but the "I find your lack of faith disturbing" Darth Vader. #
• Unemployment rate hit 9.5 percent, the highest in nearly 26 years http://tr.im/qFv5 There's that Hope And Change! #tcot #
• Only $25 to attend the Michael Jackson funeral http://tr.im/qGFB Get them now and sell 'em on eBay, kiddies! #
• Israel has Cynthia McKinney in jail http://tr.im/qGNX This proves that Israel is our greatest friend #
• Helen Thomas criticizes White House http://tr.im/qGPn That's like Peanut complaining about Jose Jalapeño On A Stick http://tr.im/qGSY #tcot #
• Congress is doing lots of traveling http://tr.im/qGW5 The problem isn't their trips, it's that they come back from them #tcot #
• Obama Says He Gets Daily Prayers on His BlackBerry http://tr.im/qH5Z Receives them at 3:49, 5:47, 1:12, 5:08, 8:37, & 10:35 #tcot #

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John H. Moss died yesterday.

Okay, some of you — heck, probably most of you — are saying, “Who is John H. Moss?”

Well, he’s a celebrity. To me, anyway.

Sure, you’ve heard about the passing of Ed McMahon, Farrah Fawcett, Billy Mays, Karl Malden, and, of course, Michael Jackson.

And, each in their own way, were celebrities.

However, I never purchased a single thing from Billy Mays.

I never filled out an Ed McMahon envelope, though I did prefer The Tonight Show With Johnny Carson when Ed was there.

I have owned just one Karl Malden movie (Patton).

I did own one Farrah Fawcett poster. You know the one.

And I owned two Michael Jackson LPs (Off The Wall and Thriller), but no CDs.

However, I have a John H. Moss bobblehead. I have a John H. Moss baseball card. I have an autographed baseball, signed by John H. Moss.

So, who is John H. Moss?

He’s the former president of the South Atlantic League. Originally the Western Carolinas League, the league changed its name to the South Atlantic League in 1980, resurrecting the name that the Southern League had used until the early 1960s.

During his 50 years a president of the WCL/SAL, Moss guided the league into one of the premier organizations in all of baseball. When he retired, the league had 16 teams in 8 states. And I had the pleasure of attending his last game as league president: Game 3 of the 2007 South Atlantic League championship series.

During his term as league president, many players that played — or still play — Major League baseball spent time in the South Atlantic League.

I’d say that John Moss has had a larger positive impact on more people than any of the other celebrities you’ve heard about this week.

To a minor league baseball fan, such as me, John H. Moss was a celebrity.

Things on my mind recently…

• So, which car is driven by the ass? The one on the left? Or mine on the right? http://sml.vg/OQkwsy #
• Karl Malden died http://tr.im/qvTr Another celebrity dies on Obama's watch #tcot #
• Found out that, while my work is taking Friday off as a holiday, Wife's is business as usual. It's usually the other way around. Heh. #
• This actually explains the liberal mindset http://tr.im/qyqu #tcot #

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