If you are an even semi frequent reader of my blog you know the “posting” regularity is unpredictable at best.  I write when the mood strikes. Sometimes I will go a week or more with nothing new (much to the chagrin of our web mistress Tracey).  Other times I may load new material 2 or 3 times in just a few hours.  Today is a good example of the latter.

Earlier I posted a video of environmental whack job Ed Begley Jr, losing it during a Fox News interview with Stuart Varney.  Now I want to take you in a totally different direction.

I have long admired Tom Petty.  He has shown an unwillingness to “go Hollywood” or sell out to the media establishment.  My favorite song of his is “I Won’t Back Down.”  I love it for a number of reasons, and those of you that actually know me, understand why.  To say that I can be “unyielding” is charitable.

During his 30 year career, yes it have been over 30 years, Petty has stuck to his guns on numerous occasions and the quality of his work supports that.  The video below aired yesterday on CBS’s Sunday Morning.  He was interviewed by Anthony Mason, just a few days before his 60^th birthday.  Thaaat’s right 60!  This only proves one thing. When you feel you are right, you have to believe in yourself….and you are never too old to rock.

World Largest Book

The gigantic book BHUTAN is a breathtaking photographic adventure across the legendary last Himalayan kingdom. Teams from MIT and Friendly Planet took over 60,000 photographs on four extensive expeditions. Portraits of people are life-size or bigger. Panoramas convey the staggering sweep of the Great Himalayan Range and the awesome and unique ancient architecture. Tantric Buddhist dancers, clad in a rainbow of sparkling brocade silks, almost seem to be leaping off the page. According to Guinness World Records, at over five by seven feet (and 133 pounds), this beautiful photographic book is the largest published book in the world–about one of the world’s smallest countries.

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Wedding Chapel

Delivered Fully Assembled! Great for a church service getaway wedding chapel or other experience you want to remember forever! . INCLUDES: . Hinged Windows. Screen Windows. Wooden and Screen Doors. Tin Roof. Attic Ladder. Exterior Stain. Chinking Inside and Out. Rough Cut White Pine . Full Assembly. Front Porch. Tongue and Groove Flooring. Wood Roof.

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UFO Detector

Over the years many UFO sightings have reported magnetic and electromagnetic disturbances. The UFO Detector is designed to sense these disturbances and will signal their presence by flashing an LED and beeping. The elegantly designed transparent acrylic case is a handsome sculptured conversation piece that’s suitable for display on a desk, shelf or bedroom dresser.

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Grim Reaper on Skeleton Horseback Life-Size

Grim Reaper on Skeleton Horseback Life-Size Prop – Life-Size Hooded Grim Reaper with scythe upon a life-size skeleton horse statue! Shipping = $399. (NOTE: Does not qualify for FREE Shipping.)

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Inflatable Bondage Chair

This chair is great if you want to hit the road in your RV or camper but don’t want to leave the joys of S&M behind. It folds up into it’s own little pouch bag so you can carry it on day hikes and you can blow it up(or order it blown up) with a bicycle pump or even by mouth. The exterior is not really tough enough for the rough stuff, but the simulated plastic covering makes clean ups a snap. And please remember folks, while this chair is great fun in the family pool(the velcro restraints make great beverage holders) this is NOT intended as a safety flotation device.

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Wolf Urine

Use our 100 percent urine lures to create the illusion predators are present in the area you wish. Great for photographers, gardeners, hunters and wildlife enthusiasts. Due to changes in shipping regulations, we cannot ship this item to California.

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Uranium

Radioactive sample of uranium ore. Useful for testing Geiger Counters. License exempt. Uranium ore sample sizes vary. Shipped in labeled metal container as shown. Shipping Information: We are always in compliance with Section 13 from part 40 of the NRC Nuclear Regulatory Commission rules and regulations and Postal Service regulations specified in 49 CFR 173.421 for activity limits of low level radioactive materials. Item will be shipped in accordance with Postal Service activity limits specified in Publication 52. Radioactive minerals are for educational and scientific use only.

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Uterus with Fetus Model

These five flexible lifelike, uterus with fetus models illustrate fetal development and the changes in the uterus at 6 weeks, 8 weeks, 15 weeks, 20 weeks, and 40 weeks.

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Drive Thru Kit

Kit includes the drive thru unit (pictured), all equipment needed for start-up, start-up supplies including product and small wares, membership in the E.A. Brevita Cooperative Association for one year featuring product discounts and online, video-based training 24/7.

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Hand Crank Van de Graaff Generator

Thrill your high school and middle school students with exciting demonstrations as impressive as Paul Hewitt’s. Show sparks fly. Make hair stand on end. Illustrate how positive and negative ions attract or repel, and more. It’s easy with our new low-cost Van de Graaff Generator. This hand-crank model can develop potentials of up to 200kV and produce a spark up to 3.2 inches long. Measuring 28″ high with a 10″ dome, it includes a variety of accessories including a 16″ discharge electrode, electric plume, and the electric whirl. Best of all, it’s less than half the cost of a traditional Van de Graaff generator, so you’ll be able to conduct spectacular electrostatic experiments without breaking your budget.

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Last week the lid blew off a portion of the climate change debate.

E-mails from a British research group indicated that there was the strong possibility that those in the climate change corner have been “cooking the books” to reflect their beliefs versus the facts.

Whether either side is more right than the other is still up for debate and that debate should be done by experts in the field.  One thing I’ve noticied is that when you ask someone on the climate change side to explain or defend a position they tend to get very shrill and nasty.  Take Ed Begley for example.

The Top 50 Guitarists of all time. Think about that for a moment. Think of the names that come to mind. Clapton, Stevie Ray, Nugent, that Van Halen Boy. The list seems to have no bottom, yet we are asking YOU to narrow the field for US.

We want YOU to tell us who you think reigns supreme on the fret board, the finger roll, the one with the “pluck” to be considered the best! Since you are already here on the website, go to the homepage, click on the Guitar option and give us YOUR vote. We helped by throwing up 70 or so “suggestions”. The rest is up to you.

Now what is in it for you? Fair question.
Every time you enter you become eligible for a very special prize, a Lynyrd Skynyrd guitar!
Once the votes are tabulated we do what we do best…we start counting down the top 50 by playing them.
Hell, we perfected the countdown, why not show off just before Axemas. Get it?

So, it’s in your hands, your mouse, your keyboard…..you know what I mean. Go forth and vote!

Here is a soldier stationed in   Iraq  , stationed in a big sand box. He asked his wife to send him dirt ( U.S. soil), fertilizer, and some grass seed so that he can have the sweet aroma, and feel the grass grow beneath his feet When the men of the squadron have a mission that they are going on, they take turns walking through the grass and the American soil — to bring them good luck.

If you notice, he is even cutting the grass with a pair of a scissors. Sometimes we are in such a hurry that we don’t stop and think about the little things that we take for granted.

Upon receiving this, say a little prayer for our soldiers that give and give (and give up) so unselfishly for us

Well, well, well.  It seems the bloom is off the rose.  The kool-aid has won off, and curtain has been pulled back at NBC.

The 2009 Marine Corp Toys for Tots Toy Run was a HUGE success!!!

Thanks to a large out pouring of support from the upstate, thousands of kids in this area will have a great Christmas.

As the morning progressed you could sense the crowd was going to be large (and it was), and that the mood would be “festive” (and it was).  When we rolled out of the Heritage Park in Simpsonville, we had over 1,000 bikes and thousands of toys.

Now, to those of you that might have been inconvenienced by the parade….. we apologize….kind of .  It takes a while to move over 1,000 motorcycles moving at 30 mph and estimates ran from 40 – 50 minutes for us to pass thru each intersection.  I’m sure it was frustrating to a lot of folks, but no one has ever been able to come up with a better way to get that many folks from Point A (Simpsonville) to Point B (Greenville Harley).

Once we arrived it was a huge party with a mob of bikers feeling good about helping so many kids.  Thanks to the Marine Corp, Tony Liller, Greenville H.O.G., my buddy Tyler Winstead, and of course  Greenville Harley and Quaker Steak.  Their hard work will be felt throughout the area on Christmas morning.  If you got angry with us due to traffic issues, we understand. We also hope you will show the same level of patience NEXT YEAR cause we are coming back with even more cycles and toys. HO HO HO!

Please note the following story contains language that could be considered offensive .

The tough New York City fans were no match for Roger Daltrey, whose Use It Or Lose It tour hit the Nokia Theatre in the heart of Manhattan’s Times Square on Friday night (November 20th). The 2,100-strong crowd was clearly unimpressed with the sci-fi, retro cacophony of Daltrey’s young opening act Paper Zoo — who bravely soldered on against a vocally belligerent group of die-hard fans eager for a night of Whosongs.

Although Daltrey was good natured throughout the show, portions of the crowd grew impatient with his long between-song-banter. Daltrey was forced to pause during several of his introductions to tell the noisy crowd to shut up, and at one point lost his cool, shouting, “Do you wanna f***ing come up here and I’ll teach you how to really shout? You’re f***ing selfish.” Daltrey also had to urge members of the audience to stop smoking pot several times due to the fact that he sadly is now allergic to it and the smoke tends to constrict his vocal cords. He had to remind the tokers several times to take it easy with the smoke which was making its way onto the stage.

Hey all you Clemson fans. I need to ask some advice from ya’ll. As most of you know I’m a huge Michigan fan, was born and raised in it like you all were born into the Orange and the paw. And you all also know that we went through a coaching change recently and a have had a couple of pretty down years lately too.  Now I need you to tell what does a fan do when he’s not happy with what the coach is doing and the way the team has crashed into the ground the past two years. You see it all started when we hire former West Virginia head coach and one time Clemson assistant Rich Rodriguez. Now I know you all though old Rich Rod was something special when he was here and heck I was even excited when Michigan hired him. But these past few years I’ve learned a lot about what it was like to be a Clemson fan during the Bowden days! And it’s starting to feel a lot like that for us Michigan fans now.  Sure it’s only been 2 years, but when your program hasn’t had back to back losing season since you were alive and it’s the winningest  football program in college football history and you have a tradition for winning like the Wolverines, two bad years in a row feel more like 5 or even more. So I ask you, should we M fans begin shouting for Rich Rod’s head and make a coaching change yet?  Many of my brethren up in Michigan have already had enough, they are fed up with the NCAA investigations, player issues losing and controversy that seemed to arrived the very day Rich Rod walked on to campus! They are tired of the losing to Ohio State a team we had dominated for like 10 of the previous 13 years until they changed coaches, they aren’t happy about losing to Michigan State two years in a row, and most of all with the new improvements to the already greatest football stadium in College football they school is worried about its future of filling the seats! So please share your thoughts with this very frustrated Wolverine fan on what we should do. I would like to mention there happens to be this Coach out at Stanford who happened to have a 15 year NFL career and was once the Quarterback at Michigan. And as a kid he grew up on the Michigan campus since his father was once an M assistant Under the Legendary Bo Schembechler. He even played for Bo during his time at Michigan! His name is Jim Harbaugh, and he has turned the Stanford program around and just might win the Pac 10 championship this year. His return to Michigan would fulfill a craving for the Michigan fans to have a “Michigan man” back as head coach; he is a winner and is one of the most popular former players of all time at the school.

     The problem I have though is the idea of trying to get him away from where he is right now and also shoving Rich Rod out the door after only two years. I guess what I wanted to know is when do those kind of feelings go away and you just say the hell with it make the damn change and stop the bleeding now. Please share your thoughts with this very frustrated and spoiled on winning Michigan fan on how to handle this problem we face. Thanks s o much and good luck against The Cavaliers this weekend and your possible division championship, I’m feeling jealous already!

Oh thats old number 4 Jimi Harbaugh touching the banner back in the day in the photo included! Go Blue

It’s here…the annual USMC Toys for Tots Toy Run!

This is your chance to do something good……for someone else. LOL

We will be meeting at Heritage Park in Simpsonville, Saturday around 10am with roll out at 11:30.
The parade will end at Greenville Harley with a party afterwards.
I’ve done toy runs for over 20 years and this is a huge event and will benefit kids all over the upstate.

Weather be damned.
No excuses.

Be there.