Sunday, April 10, 2011

Shut it Down

Tax time this week. I am self-employed so I have to write a check at this time every year. Since I am getting killed financially I have to actually charge it this year. What a kick in the groin that is. Thanks for the hope and change.

Then it’s up to Maine for a couple of shows Thursday and Friday night. A high school fund-raiser is followed by my third appearance at the U of Maine and their Relay-For-Life marathon.

But I have a problem now that the girl is gone; I have to find someone to take care of my dog. It is not cool that the dog has to suffer in this way because of what happened. I am not happy about this at all. I mentioned the other day that I prefer to keep him stress free but now it seems like I am left with no choice but to leave him with a friend of mine who has two large German shepherds. That can only cause stress for him. I hope they don’t eat him.

The Rays Manny Ramirez retired the other day all of a sudden. His career is now shut down because of what ,on the surface, appears to have something to do with the leagues drug policy.
Ramirez was one of the most feared hitters in baseball for nearly 18 years and he retires with 555 career homeruns.
He will be on a growing list of recent baseball stars who will need to get judged by the Hall of Fame committee who had either admitted to using, or had been found to have used, performance enhancing drugs to help them at some point in their career.

Let those debates rage forward.

How about them Orioles? They handed the Rangers their first loss of the season and matched their record so far at 6-1. But then the Rangers got revenge with a 13-1 win in a make-up game.
How about Cliff Lee getting boinked around by the Braves? I’m telling you that the Phillies fans have so much penis envy about New York that they have forgotten about the Braves, the team that I still think is the team to beat. They did pull the series even with Oswalt on the mound in game two.

Red Sox nation is a bit happier now. The blow of that 0-6 start was softened by the first win of the season coming against the Yankees. Then they were miserable again as they got pounded in game two.

So with baseball it’s like that…you win one, you lose one. The best teams in baseball lose a lot of games every year. The best players strike out and the best pitchers give up homeruns. That’s why those debates about who is the best player and which team is the best are never ending.

But there is no debate that the departure of Manny Ramirez is the most news worthy item in the league this week.

At http://www.marshcast.com/ two new shows are posted. There are now four shows worth of audition tapes with a few more coming. I think it’s interesting to hear this show, Dungeon of Manlove, get created and grown right in public like this. I literally welcome people into my studio and sit them down in front of the microphone, press record, and start talking. I chop out bad audio and dead air and the occasional poorly judged remark, but its basically raw tape. And it is so much fun. It is exactly what I have needed to do to push through a block of mine here.

It also helps me vent some real frustration and some growing anger. There is plenty of it to unleash with more piling on every day.

For example, since I paid $3.85 for a gallon of regular gas the other day I decided to experiment with something. It got pretty sunny and windy at the same time the other day and so I rolled my car out of the driveway and onto the street. I sat down in the driver’s seat and prepared myself for my trip.

I waited and I waited. Time kept passing. Sure enough, I ended up on the verge of being late so I had to turn on my car, hit the gas pedal and go.

So what it the moral of the story? We have a bunch of idiots claiming that wind and solar power are the answers to our rising energy price problems.

My experiment proved that no matter how windy or sunny it is, wind and solar power are NOT going to power our vehicles.

GAS IS WHAT DOES IT RIGHT NOW! We need more gas and cheaper gas. Without those two things, we are doomed. We need a leader that has the freaking common sense to see this and get this done. Our own resources need to be developed and utilized IN OUR COUNTRY so we can grow once again.

This joke of a “recovery” is just that…a joke. And it’s a much sicker joke now that we are, once again, pushing near $4 a gallon for gas. Where is the outrage about this now? Where are CBS, NBC, CNN, and ABC and their investigative reports into the Obama administrations ties to big oil companies? Because, in case you hadn’t heard, his political campaign received plenty of campaign contributions from oil companies when he ran for office. When Bush was president all we used to hear when gas reached $4 a gallon was how he and Dick Cheney were in bed with the oil companies. EXPLAIN THIS SHIT TO ME NOW!

He makes a deal with Brazil and promises to give them 2 billion dollars of OUR tax money so they can develop THEIR oil reserves, and then tells them that WE will be THEIR best customers. So we not only get our tax money robbed from us to do that, we then have to spend our money to help the Brazilian economy?

WHAT THE HELL? Am I the only one around here who sees a problem with this?

So because my gas bill is now so much higher, I had to cut back on my personal budget and chop my cable service to basic. This now means that I no longer have access to the MLB Network, my favorite channel of all time. It’s not a catastrophe; I can make do without it but the point is that a lot of the money I am paying for gas is not staying here and helping our economy. The money I had been paying for my cable bill was staying here and helping our economy.

Complete idiots make these energy decisions.

Look, I’m all for trying to develop new sources of energy but it has to be done with these things in mind…
1- It must be cheaper than what we have now.
2- It must be at least as effective as oil is now
3- It must be done while we are taking full advantage of our own resources until the development of items 1 and 2 above are complete and the proper infrastructure to deliver the new sources of power are in place.

Electric cars are stupid too. Gas and coal are two components used to make electricity and they are practically banned by this moronic administration.

I’d rather not get political here. I don’t have a lot of real close friends but 80 percent of them are either unemployed or underemployed right now and that 80% is not an exaggeration. If we just were allowed to develop our own natural resources in this country all of us, at this point, would rush to wherever they were opening up the development to go get work. It’s getting that critical for a whole lot of people.

Maybe we should move to Brazil, I hear there are new opportunities there.

Done.

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