Mustang's Corral

As an icon of weird story telling, Stephen King has made our skin crawl and our hearts pound, but not like mine is now! Why? Because I'm hopping mad at this goober!  Read the quote below, watch the clip and join me below that.

At a writers symposium for high school students Stephen King said...

"I don't want to sound like an ad, a public service ad on TV but the fact is that if you can read, you can walk into a job later on.  If you don't, then you got the army, Iraq, I don't know, something like that.  It's not as bright.  So that's my little commercial for that."

http://www.redlasso.com/ClipPlayer.aspx?id=6c734921
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WHAT THE HELL WAS HE THINKING? Is he really calling our troops illiterate and stupid? This is the kind of elitist crap that fills the liberal left! This bobbleheaded bookworm owes his very livelihood to people willing to defend his freedoms to the death if necessary! I know Mr King has suffered head injuries lately but has his brain slid out of an open wound or something? A few years ago I reached a point where the brainless boobs of entertainment caused me to make a list (in my head) of the people I just wont watch or patronize anymore. You know, your basic Alec Baldwin, Barbara Streisand, Rosie O'Donnell types. Welcome to my list Mr King! You are among the best of the worst now!

WE ALL HAVE TOO MUCH MONEY!

Now that I have your attention, let me explain what I mean.

I hear a lot of people moaning about not having health insurance. Has anyone ever stopped to think how much money people waste these days on frivolous crap? By crap I mean,

Cell Phones,

Computers,

Internet (broadband),

Video Games,

DVDs,

MP3 Players,

Big Screen TVS, 

Cable TV,

Cell Phones for KIDS,

Eating out 4x a week,

and all the other stuff we just dont need to have!

That's right, we dont need to have these things! Buy them if you want but when you dont have the money to buy health insurance, go look in your livingroom at your new 61" Sony and tell me if it's worth it!

Our parents and grand parents, didn't have all the extra crap we now see as a "must haves"! They also had plenty of money  for things like insurance and a word most people have never heard of.......SAVINGS! I don't have a cell phone, my video game is a used PS1 and my TV is a 18 year old 27" Sony with a great picture on it! My only luxury is this PC and my FiOS. Ok ok, I do a classic car in the garage but I have had it for 28 years! So when it comes to money for insurance, I have nothing to moan about.

LIVE WITHIN YOUR MEANS PEOPLE!

Now if you'll excuse me, I have to go put some money in my savings account!

I was watching TV the other night and this commercial came on for a new  heartburn drug called "AcipHex".  Looks like something you would name a drug right? That is until you hear how they pronounce it in the commercial. I swear it sounds like they are saying "Ass Affects"! What boardroom bozo approved this name and worse yet the TV commercial? I really do think they are running out of names for these new drugs! What's next? A hemmorrhoid cream called "SphincterAll"? *LMAO*

Today, I read something a little creepy.

The crown prince of the United Arab Emirates of Dubai has bought a female camel for a record 2.72 million dollars, from an organiser at a camel beauty pageant!

Let me repeat part of that ....."camel beauty pageant"......HUH? What?

This explains a lot!

Today I'm reading a news story about a new proposed tax that California voters are being asked to approve.

 I find it hard to even type this next bit without smashing my keyboad so please bare with me. ***taking several deep breaths....and continue***

The new tax is to help fight ***gulping air*** GLOBAL WARMING! The "climate change mitigation and adaptation fee" as it's being called is to fund public transportation and they claim it would generate some $400 million dollars a year.  The fee would be generated from, get this part, gasoline taxes of $.09 per gallon at the pumps or an EXTRA $90 in vehicle registration! Just when I think they have lost their minds out west, they prove me even more right! 

I have been more than clear in my blogs that I think global warming or whatever they call it this week is a load of crap. My question now is if asked, what would you say to a tax like this? You all know it's only a matter of time before we are asked to do the same thing. As much as I like Gov Charlie Crist, ( I voted for him and would again), he has fallen for this myth and I'm sure he'll propose or back such a tax here.

So, I'll ask again, would you approve it? Or would you tell them where to stick their global warming tax?

Here's a gift for Mr Rickles (you know who you are)*lol* http://blog.wired.com/cars/2008/04/should-drivers.html
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Tonight, Saturday March 29th the world will participate in "Earth Hour". That is to say, more than 20 cities around the world will switch off their lights for one hour at 8:00pm EST, in a climate change awareness event. WHAT? You have to be joking? This is what you get when hippies grow up! Meaningless garbage designed to make those who join in feel good. They claim this event will "Raise Awareness" of the subject of Global Warming. Note that they now call it Climate Change because they have warn out Global Warming. But anyway, do they really think that people haven't heard of this topic and need to be made aware? Unless you live in the the middle of the African savana and have no access to news, I'm sure that EVERYONE KNOWS ABOUT IT! Also, you wouldn't have lights to turn off to show you are now aware, so what is this going to achive? NOTHING! Another thing that shows how meaningless this is, they only have about 20 cities taking part. 20 cities out of thousands of cities world wide? That's a huge joke!

If you are as sick of the Global Warming wackos as I am, this is what I want you to do.

TURN ON ALL YOUR LIGHTS!

I don't care if it cost me another $10 in electric tonight, I'm going to do it! Let them know when they see your lights burning that you haven't fallen for this crap that's being shoved in our faces day in and day out!

I'm calling this event "Anti-Earth Hour!" Not that I'm anti-Earth, because I'm not. I'm just anti this meaningless hour of feel good mumbo jumbo!

I just saw this disturbing report on the here on the Fox 13 website. It's about the push to make bullying illegal. WHAT? Are you kidding me? They want to make illegal, and I quote, "Teasing, humiliation, excluding someone from the group"! WHAT? Are you kidding me? I mean come on people. I know kids have a few more techno gadgets to bully that my generation never had, the internet and Myspace etc but this is too much. 

Teasing, humiliation, excluding someone from the group are not crimes. It's normal for people and or groups to do this. It might not be right and friendly but it's not a crime!  The first two are wrong under any situation but the last one, excluding someone from the group is the right of the group. If I or a group I belong to, don't want to associate with someone for any reason, that's my right. There were a lot of groups I wish i could have been in but wasn't welcome. I didn't cry about it or shoot up a school or worse yet, do myself in. I remember this kid in high school that didn't bathe too often. No one wanted to be around him except the other stinky kids. If this new law goes into effect, would a group have to associate with him even if they dont want to? If we had this law when I was in school, would Stinky be able to get us arrested or fined just because we didn't want him in our group? Thinking about that more, just what will the punishment/s be?

We have laws against asalt and slander and that enough to protect our kids from bullies. It's up to parents to raise their kids with enough backbone to stand up to bullies and have enough self worth to shrug off the barbs that EVERYONE faces from time to time.   This proposed legislation is just plain stupid! And I'll tease anyone who thinks otherwise and not let you in my group! *lol*