Well kids, in the past I’ve made reference to the gibberish gushed from Paula Abdul.  Last night was a sterling example.
http://www.tmz.com/tmz_main_video?titleid=1529520166

Then there’s the story of a 7 year old boy in Flordia that snatched the key to his grandmothers Dodge Durango for a spin.  Now I understand kids will do stuff, and I don’t think beating kids is a good idea…..but in this case I’ll make an exception.  He seems more bothered than sorry.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iprUJeDEXUo

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Through out the course of human history we’ve all watched as the power of Karma repeatdly makes you believe in it’s power.We all have examples in our lives of how karma has cut not only our way but right back in our own faces as well. Karma can ruin a persons day,or make it wonderful, it can turn a sports teams fortunes around in a single moment, heck it can even destroy whole cultures.

     I have observed a couple of examples of how Karma appears out of nowhere to change the tone and a scope of an individuals life recently and it’s just amazing how it can change so much for that person who’s been effected by it’s mysterious power. This sweet and wonderful person deserved the positive dose of the “big K” she just recieved. Then take the case of one Cody McCleod the left winger for the NHL’s Colorado Avalanche. He dared to roll the dice on the old karma magic. See Cody thought he’d just mess around with a old Detroit hockey tradition. For years now during the Stanley cup playoffs, it’s not unusual to see a Octopus appear on the ice at “the Joe”. It has a story behind it but i won’t bore you folks into spring football and racing with the details of the tradition of the Pie on ice! So lets get back to Cody. See he decided to not allow the detroit tradition of someone from the biulding crew come out and pick the fleshy mass off the ice and wave it to the fans like it always has been for years. No he skated over and scooped up the glob with his stick and the whipped it into the stands almost hitting a security guy in the head with it. And as old Cody was skating around taunting more Red wings fans and laughing,well you just new something was coming. Yes things didn’t go to well for Cody and his Av’s team mates. The Detroit Red Wings went on to pound them into the ice with a 5-1 victory on Saturday.  So if you are one to believe in this thing called Karma, I just wanted to give you something to always keep in mind Don’t ever go skating over to a dead goowee Cephalopod, pick it up with your stick and fling it toward someone without expecting  that someday…SOMEWAY you will end up with said Cephalopod, coming back at you and hitting you right in the face!

Why is it called “Dancing with the Stars” when I’ve heard of so few of the “Stars”?

Last week was the 1st anniversary of the Virgina Tech massacare. I remember doing the news the days after and trying to understand why the nutsack felt the need to kill so many.  Now I see where the university has paid each family a large sum of money to avoid being sued.  I feel for the familes that lost thier kids, but why in the world would assume the school was responsible for that guy going nuts? 

Hilary Clinton is running commericals for the N.C. Primary.  She laments the rising cost of gas and explains how she will lower the cost.  She will spend $130 BILLON in research for alternative fuels.  Thats right, she is willing to take $130 BILLION dollars today so you MIGHT get a slightly lower gas bill in 20 years.  and you folk in the Democratic party wonder why she is losing to a guy with 3 yrs experience in the U.S. Senate and no track record.

John McCain ame out with a unique suggestion to lowering the cost of gas TODAY, not 20 years from now.  He wants to suspend the Federal Gas Tas for the summer.  That equates to over 12 cents per gallon…..today.  It would positiviely impact the economy with travel, meals, etc but it does have one  

No photoshop here! Please submit your captions of the sweet webmistress Tracy West.

(a webmistress strikes again…..)

Yea, this is Tracy… If the lenses in your beer goggles are kegs!

This is what I love about the South, food, sunshine and people watching!  There was all of that down at Artisphere in the West End, it was a potpourri of creativity everywhere, including what some people were wearing, I’m sure you saw those people as well.  Makes you feel good about yourself doesn’t it.

Thanks to everyone that dropped by the “ROCK 101 Blues Cafe” and ALL of the great bands that hung out over the weekend, the sounds were sweet.  Check out some of the pics is took!

Well my daily attitude these recent weeks has been greatly affected in a positive way by a certain wonderful individual and by the weather finally warming up too. But I’m about to blow my peaceful happy domineer because of certain pro Hockey team from a certain town will just call Hockey town to protect the innocent. This is that certain team (the red wings ooop’s, I just reveled them to you, oh well I’ll just go on from here.)  That I annually obsess over come play off time is coming off yet another banner regular season leading the league with the best record and the #1 seed in the Stanley cup playoffs. They have had alot of injuries this season but as healthy as they could be as the go into the playoff. They are matched up with the # 8 Nashville, (yeah I said Nashville, it makes me laugh to think of a hockey team in Nashville) and despite the name and city of the team doesn’t exactly scream Hockey, they are a very good team. Saying that the red wings quickly took a 2-0 lead in the series and then headed to NNNNNashville to play games 3 and 4. Well now after loosing 2 games to the Preds (short for Predators, why they shorten it to the preds is beyond me but I’ll go with it) the wings find themselves tied at 2 games a piece and if not for the fact they are going back to Detroit for game five and have been given a chance to get back on track at home, I believe I would have ground all my teeth to the gums these past few days. Yes we Wings fans are a tad spoiled and some would say a little on the pompice side but is it asking to much as a fan to expect your team when they are the best in the league to at least make it through the first round of the playoffs so we can enjoy the season for at least a few more weeks. Yes I do enjoy hockey and you’d think that even if for some bizarre reason my beloved Wings are knocked out of the playoffs I could at leaset watch the other teams in those playoffs just because it is the run for the cup. But let me ask you this, could you just cheer for another team in a bowl game that knocked your team out of that same bowl game? Could you just start cheering for another driver in a NASCAR races when your favorite just got grinded right off the track for the rest of the race? Could you just drive up and pay 3.25 a gallon for gas in the afternoon, when it was just 3.17 when you went by the station that morning but you didn’t stop cause you were running late for work and then after getting off work realizing you just cost yourself money by not stopping in the morning and now you feel like you should be able to charge your employers? Wait maybe its not really the wings that are getting me all worked up here. Yeah I love the game and the team, but is just sports and not real life. So it must be these gas prices that have got so damned upset. Look we can all argue till the cows come home as to who to blame for all this but let’s get real here. The next president needs to be the one who can go to OPEC and say knock the F off with this limiting production crap. Then we, as the American public, need to not just start driving cars that get better gas mileage, we need to nut up and understand that we can make a difference by not buying gas at these prices, by understanding that we can’t lower our dependence on oil from the middle east and south America unless we drill more places in our own country, build more refineries and develop better sources of fuel. And when it comes to that, let’s make this point clear. Ethanol is made from corn, it’s not cost effective and those who are producing it are getting government money to survive. So you and I are paying for that twice. So I can live with a wings collapse in the Stanley cup playoff, but I’ve just about had enough of the lack of effort by we the public, the government, and activists who are so blinded by they’re personal agenda’s that they are actually support positions that are making things even worse for the economy. I wish we could do it another way. But in time, if we as America start to really take all this seriously, we will probably will find a better way to feed our need to drive. But until that something we can see, feel, and touch (which means not B.S. but for real) we need to make some tough choices… And to quote Bluto in Animal house… WHO’S WITH ME? LET’S GO AAAAAAAAAAAGH!

The Masters has come and gone.  Tiger didn’t win so know one cares.

Tennis is in full swing.  Even fewer care.

NASCAR is rolling and I freaking love it!  But there is one sport that has gotten my attention.

Aussie Rules Football has become my new favorite.  Click the link and watch the video to see why.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_dsiuc169_w

I know “rubbin is racin” but this is way beyond that. LOL

The day well all try to put off is here, now!  It’s tax day, April 15^th.   Remember before e-filing and programs to do your taxes at home that were made idiot proof, whatever, there were long lines at the post office up to midnight on the 15^th just so you could get that postmark stamp so you wouldn’t be a day late, and defiantly a dollar short.   Today, most people are finding they can prepare and file their own tax returns in minutes, securely, and online.   Since 1986, when e-filing began with just 25,000 tax returns filed online, the number of e-filed returns has risen greatly, last year; nearly 80 million tax returns used e-file, representing about 57 percent of all returns.

I still pay someone to do my taxes, because if they screw up, they pay for it, then, hopefully, my but is covered.  Plus, I can get my money back in 2 weeks, NOT 2 months!