Stupid Crooks Dept:

Accused Pothead Jailed For Contempt

(TEXAS CITY) – When Kenny MacVillers was asked by Galveston County Probation officer Hector Bainell to provide a urine sample, he unzipped his fly and peed all over Bainell’s desk. This was the veteran probation officer’s first sign of trouble. Things got worse at a probation revocation hearing in County Court on October 28th.
After hearing a report from the prosecutor, Judge Maxine Proull asked MacVillers if he had anything to say in his own behalf. MacVillers then stood up and began a rambling and incoherent 40-minute statement accusing police of ruining his reputation as a marijuana distributor. “They said my pot was low grade dirt weed” he said, “Do you have any idea what that did to my reputation?” Judge Proull admonished MacVillers that this was inadmissible, at which point MacVillers shouted “Blow me, your Honor!”. He was then escorted out of the courthouse and charged with contempt of court.
On his way to the jail, MacVillers fell down and gave himself a black eye and several broken ribs, according to a press release from the Sheriff’s office.

Photo from Kenny's MySpace page

Because the Contempt citation is his third offense, McVillers will be sentenced as an Habitual Offender when he appears in court next month. His outburst means he now faces a life sentence,

Stupid Crooks Dept: Accused Pothead Held For Contempt

(TEXAS CITY) – When Kenny MacVillers was asked by Galveston County Probation officer Hector Bainell to provide a urine sample, he unzipped his fly and peed all over Bainell’s desk.  This was the veteran probation officer’s first sign of trouble. Things got worse at a hearing in County Court on Jan. 28th.
After hearing a report from the prosecutor, Judge Maxine Proull asked MacVillers if he had anything to say in his own behalf. MacVillers then stood up and began a rambling and incoherent statement accusing police of ruining his reputation as a marijuana distributor. “They said my pot was low grade dirt weed” he said, “Do you have any idea what that did to my reputation?” Judge Proull admonished MacVillers that this was inadmissible, at which point MacVillers shouted “Blow me, your Honor!”. He was then escorted out of the courthouse.
On his way to the jail, MacVillers fell down and gave himself a black eye and several broken ribs, according to a press release from the Sheriff’s office.

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Thanksgiving Reality Check

Most of us associate Thanksgiving with happy Pilgrims and Indians sitting down to a big feast.  And that did happen – once.
The story began in 1614 when a band of English explorers sailed home to  England with a ship full of Patuxet Indians bound for slavery. They left behind smallpox which virtually wiped out those who had escaped.  By the time the Pilgrims arrived in Massachusetts Bay they found only one living Patuxet Indian, a man named Squanto who had survived slavery in England and knew their language.  He taught them to grow corn and to fish, and negotiated a peace treaty between the Pilgrims and the Wampanoag Nation. At the end of their first year, the Pilgrims held a great feast honoring Squanto and the Wampanoags.
But as word spread in England about the paradise to be found in the new world, religious zealots called Puritans began arriving by the boat load. Finding no fences around the land, they considered it to be in the public domain. Joined by other British settlers, they seized land, capturing strong young Natives for slaves and killing the rest.  But the Pequot Nation had not agreed to the peace treaty Squanto had negotiated and they fought back. The Pequot War was one of the bloodiest Indian wars ever fought.
In 1637 near present day  Groton, Connecticut, over 700 men, women and children of the Pequot Tribe had gathered for their annual Green Corn Festival which is our Thanksgiving celebration. In the predawn hours the sleeping Indians were surrounded by English and Dutch mercenaries who ordered them to come outside.  Those who came out were shot or clubbed to death while the terrified women and children who huddled inside the longhouse were burned alive. The next day the governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony declared “A Day Of Thanksgiving” because 700 unarmed men, women and children had been murdered.
Cheered by their “victory”, the brave colonists and their Indian allies attacked village after village. Women and children over 14 were sold into slavery while the rest were murdered.  Boats loaded with a many as 500 slaves regularly left the ports of New England. Bounties were paid for Indian scalps to encourage as many deaths as possible.
Following an especially successful raid against the Pequot in what is now  Stamford, Connecticut, the churches announced a second day of “thanksgiving” to celebrate victory over the heathen savages.  During the feasting, the hacked off heads of Natives were kicked through the streets like soccer balls.  Even the friendly Wampanoag did not escape the madness. Their chief was beheaded, and his head impaled on a pole in Plymouth, Massachusetts — where it remained on display for 24 years.
The killings became more and more frenzied, with days of thanksgiving feasts being held after each successful massacre. George Washington finally suggested that only one day of Thanksgiving per year be set aside instead of celebrating each and every massacre. Later Abraham Lincoln decreed Thanksgiving Day to be a legal national holiday during the Civil War — on the same day he ordered troops to march against the starving Sioux in Minnesota.
This story doesn’t have quite the same fuzzy feelings associated with it as the one where the Indians and Pilgrims are all sitting down together at the big feast.  But we need to learn our true history so it won’t ever be repeated.  Next  Thanksgiving, when you gather with your loved ones to Thank God for all your blessings, think about those people who only wanted to live their lives and raise their families.  They, also took time out to say “thank you” to Creator for all their blessings.

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Bar Talk

Future Drinking

Advances in science and technology will soon change the way we drink our booze. There are many new ideas in development at this very moment. Here are a few that are expected to arrive in the near future:

Virtual Drinking Buddies
Why go to the bar and drink with a gang of idiots when you can drink with whoever you want? Within a couple of years you can expect Virtual Personality Taverns: drinking establishments equipped with flat screens on which will appear friends drinking at other bars, interesting strangers on the other side of the globe, and the programmed personas of your favorite drinking personalities. Think of it, instead of talking sports with the moron sitting next to you, you can chat with your best friend on the other side of town, match shots with a fellow drinker in Las Vegas, or enjoy a martini with the virtual personalities of Dean Martin and Rodney Dangerfield.

The Sober Up Pill
This fantastic pill will relegate DUIs and pink slips to the mists of history. Pop one of these metabolism accelerators before getting behind the wheel or showing up for court, and your chemically-abetted liver will crank the booze out of your bloodstream in fifteen minutes flat. Sound too good to be true?
We’re getting closer every year. One promising recent arrival is ReGenesis BioPurify, the offspring of medical attempts to regenerate damaged livers. This herbal remedy appears to retard drunkenness when taken before drinking and negate hangovers when taken after.
Across the ocean, an elixir called Desalco is sweeping the bars and cafes of France. This fructose-based colorless liquid contains a concentration of natural ingredients designed to slow the absorption of alcohol into the bloodstream, effectively neutralizing breathalyser tests and giving the user a temporary window of sobriety to make it home in one piece.
Due to these advances, MADD will soon fade like its hatchet-carrying predecessors, forcing its adherents to go back to selling each other Mary Kay products and thinking of new names for their ever-multiplying hordes of cats.

Corrective Beer Goggles
Never wake up next to a bed monster again. The CBG monitors your blood alcohol level and adjusts your vision accordingly with its digitally-enhanced lenses. To compensate for the natural proclivity of alcohol to make people seem more attractive, the goggle’s computer will add harsh lighting, magnify flaws and distort body dimensions in direct proportion to the blood level detected in your alcohol stream.
An optional feature will measure prospective female attractiveness digitally, using the latest image analysis technology. The goggles will then assign a numerical rating to anyone you point the device at, and play a corresponding audio tone.

The U-Pourium
This efficient autobar will get you bombed with a minimal amount of human interaction. Let’s face it, there are times when you do not wish to speak to even a bartender, especially when all you have to pay with is a fistful of spare change.
The super efficient U-Pourium will effectively remove this inconvenience and embarrassment from your life. Just feed in bills, spare change, or swipe a credit card through one of the bar-mounted drinking stations, punch in the drink of your choice, then pour your own with the handy gas-pump style nozzle.
When it’s time for the bar to close, ever louder claxons will chase the patrons into the street and antiseptic sprinklers will scour the modular plastic interior, ensuring the U-Pourium is sparkling and ready the next wave of boozehounds.

The A.A.A.A.
Like a Triple A for alcoholics, paying monthly dues to this organization will ensure you’ll make it safely home after an evening of heavy drinking. The size of a watch, the AAAA device is activated by pushing the Panic Button or when the device senses you haven’t moved around in a while.
Following the signal of the built-in Global Positioning Device, a polite attendant will track your location, whether it be a bar, back alley or strange apartment, load you into a van, drive you home, and put you to bed. Good night, sweet prince!

Vita-Booze
They stick vitamins in breakfast cereal, sports drinks, junk food and candy – so why haven’t they put it in booze? Especially since alcohol tends to strip the body of certain vitamins and minerals (and that’s the last time you’ll hear me bad mouth alcohol).
Ginseng gin, Vitabeer and Nutra rum just make good sense. You’d expect there’d be a flood of such products, but as yet there is only a trickle, namely:
Gluek Brewing Company is gearing up to produce the world’s first alcoholic energy drink, called “Hard E.” The beverage will contain ginseng extract, vitamins and other nutrients in a clear malt base.
Furthermore, government health officials in Scotland are encouraging brewers to add the vitamin thiamin – also known as Vitamin B1 – to their beers because it might reduce alcohol-related health problems.
Just think of it–when some asshole inquires as to why you’re drinking before noon, in the near future you can look him straight in the eye and honestly say, “Hey, I’m just taking my vitamins.”

Beverage Chilling Element
Is there anything more grating than waiting for a case of beer to chill in the fridge? And what is more annoying than lugging around heavy coolers just so you don’t have to swill lukewarm lager?
Those evil days will soon be forgotten with the arrival of the fabulous Beverage Container Chilling Element. Just twist the base of the can and a vacuum pulls heat from the liquid and into in a cooling element, dropping the beer’s temperature 30 degrees fahrenheit in three minutes.
When oh when, you ask, will I be able to get my undeserving paws on this wonder?
How about right now? Self-heating containers have been used by the U.S. military and Japanese sake distillers for years, but it wasn’t until recently that Tempra Technology Inc. introduced the I.C. Can (as in Icy Can), a self-chilling beer container. Large-scale consumer testing has already begun and it should be available nationwide next year.

And there’s more…
Also on the way are robotic bartenders (Robartenders) already in use at several clubs in the US; Talking beer bottles – containing a tiny microchip and a few phrases like “let’s have another” have already been demonstrated at trade shows; Virtual live bands; and even a device that promises to stop the bed from seeming to spin around  when you come home shitfaced and fall into the spinning bed.

And you thought scientists just sat around inventing stupid shit like artificial organs and space shuttles.  The future of drinking is getting brighter with these new advances in technology. The whole bar experience is going to change greatly during the next few years.

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Corection of Misteak

In a recent news story we accidentally made an error in identifying a defendant in a criminal case as a “low life crackhead faggot pinhead who used to troll for queers in Montrose driving his pink Corvette convertible.” This was an error on our part.
The defendant, Gerald Harris Hogenblum, age 36, actually drove a pink
Mustang convertible. We apologize for any inconvenience this error may have caused.

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Bar Talk

How To Act at the Bar…

A few more words of advice about how to act at the bar. I like to print this kind of stuff, because every time I do so, I get free drinks from all of the bartenders for a whole month.
Have your money and order ready. The bartender is waiting on you. Everybody else is waiting on them. Don’t jam us all up by not knowing what the fuck you’re drinking, or acting all astonished that you have to come out with some cash.
Don’t whistle at the bartender. You whistle at dogs, not people.
Don’t wave money. Wow, a whole fucking dollar! I guess the bartender might break a leg hurrying to get over there to get you that “curz lite”.
Don’t yell out the bartender’s name. There’s something disturbing about hearing your name called out, turning around and seeing a complete stranger. That’s one of the reasons strippers use stage names.
NOTE: All you really need to do to get waited on is make eye contact. We see you, and we’ll get to you before the guy right next to you waving money and whistling. Remember, this isn’t insulin we’re passing out here. If you really need the drink that bad, you’ve got a problem to address, Jack. The meek shall inherit the bar.
Don’t say “make it strong!” or “put a lot of liquor in it” So, you’re one of the rare drinkers that like their drink strong! This insults the bartender, by accusing them of pouring weak drinks. This is also the best way to get a weak drink.
Don’t give the ever-expanding drink order. You want a Bud. They go get it. They come back and now you want a Margarita. Okay, no prob. They come back, and (oh yeah!) now you want a shot of Tequila, too.
Don’t order high-maintenance drinks when the bar is busy. Example: “Lemme get an Alabama Slammer, a Red Snapper, two Kamikazes, a Buttery Nipple and a Lemon Drop.” Usually followed by a small tip.
These drinks are fine by themselves, but there are multiple steps involved with making each one. You may get them this time, but you’ll probably be waited on last the next time they see you approach the bar.
Don’t assume the bartender knows you’re in the band. Yeah, you’re gonna be really famous, but you’re not there yet, pal. Tell them you’re in the band. By the way, if you are in a band and get free/reduced drink prices, feel free to tip, as most bartenders are also in bands! Oh, and by the way, their band will smoke your band!
Don’t assume the bartender knows you at all. You are one of a thousand faces, and when you point at an empty glass or a beer bottle that’s invariably facing away from them, your attempt at a shortcut backfires. Tell ’em what you want.
Don’t apologize for being a loser. Don’t apologize for not tipping. Acknowledging that you suck is not the same as not sucking. Oh, and don’t say “I’ll get ya next time.” They know all about you.
Don’t put pennies and nickels in the tip jar. They don’t want that crap in their pockets any more than you do.
Don’t order beer snob beers, then act all hurt when the bar doesn’t carry your latest stupid berry-wheat pale harvest ale. No, don’t ask them to special-order it. They’ve already got a dozen cases of unsellable shit-beer in the back room from other dickheads like you!
Don’t bitch about being carded. It’s the law, they don’t make the law, and it’s not up to them, so play along nicely. You don’t want the terrorists to win, do you?
Tipping is not a city in China. If you can’t afford to tip, you should not be at the bar. You should stay home inside your cardboard box, drink cheap wine, and sing the blues.
Strangely enough bad tippers are seldom the poor broke slob – he’ll fork over his last quarter. It’s usually the fucknut with the $8 drink who stiffs the bartender.
Amateur drinkers are always trying to “mack” on bartenderesses. Hey, there’s nothing wrong with trying to flirt with a hot chick – my wife does it all the time! But here are some lame ploys you ought to avoid:
Making faux roses out of napkins. If you want to give her flowers, get some real ones – even if you have to go pick them from somebody’s yard. If you must present the bartender with such an object, make it out of a $5 or $20 bill – this way it won’t end up in the trash can, and she will actually appreciate it.
Making those stupid fucking “boats” out of dollar bills – every bartender I ever met hates those things, because it takes three Chinamen a month to unfold one of them. In fact, I have seen bartenders toss them into the trash or leave them in the tip jar for the next bartender to rassle with. Ditto for making rings, bowties and other inscrutable objects out of dollars.
Trying to stuff money down the bartenders clothes is insulting as hell. If they wanted that kind of action, they’d get a job as a stripper. It clues them in that you are a creep.
Asking the bartender to show their boobs is a pretty dumb move. It really makes you look like a weirdo. And yet it happens all of the time. Usually the moron will add insult to injury by offering a $1 tip as bait.
Here’s my best advice: if you are interested in the bartender, simply play it cool. She will notice that you are a man of distinction by your decent behavior. If she’s interested, she will find a way to let you know. It’s as simple as that.
Now some advice for bartenders:
For the patron who keeps asking for your phone number, give him this number: (713) 866-6249. This is the “Rejection Hotline”. When he calls, a pre-recorded message will explain in a nice way that you are not interested. Put that number in your phone – it’s hilarious and very helpful.
For the dude who wants you to pull up your shirt, turn the tables and ask him to show you his pecker. If he actually does it, you can either make fun of him (Damn, I’ve smoked joints fatter than that!) or you can have him arrested for indecent exposure.
For the pseudo-hooker chick who is using your bar as a place to pick up sugar-daddies to support her drug habit: right in front of her latest victim, tell her (loud enough for all to hear) that “this is a bar, and it is for people who drink – not for people who smoke crack. You can sit here if you want to drink, but I’d better not catch you doing dope in my bar!” If this doesn’t scare the guy off, you need to kick them both out – they’re trouble.
Be nice the first time you have to get onto someone, but if that doesn’t work, switch immediately to “bitch mode”. When you are behind the bar, you are the queen and they are the unruly peasants. Nobody is allowed to fuck with the queen!

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Lies From MADD

The MADD Myth Of The Drunk Driving Holocaust

Driving a motor vehicle while shitfaced drunk is a bad idea. There is no disputing that. You should also avoid playing with firearms and power tools while intoxicated. This is simple common sense. However, did you know that more people die from choking on their food every year than are killed by drunk drivers? The true number of innocent people killed by drunk drivers is about the same as the number who drown annually in swimming pools, or die in ATV accidents. It is in fact a tiny number.

Mothers Against Drunk Drivers (MADD) and the National Highway Transportation Safety Administration (NHTSA) have cited an average of 25,000 alcohol-related traffic deaths per year. This figure is an intentional, self-serving, politically motivated lie. This can be seen in definitions and national numbers from NHTSA’s own publications.
The phrase “Alcohol-related” means that at least one of the participants in a traffic accident had consumed a  “measurable amount” of alcohol, however small, or an alcohol container is found in any of the vehicles involved.  If 30 people in a Greyhound Bus die in a crash, and one passenger has a liquor bottle in their luggage, this is called an alcohol-related crash! One empty beer can is “evidence”. This dishonest way of accounting produces the following logic: 98% of all fatal accidents are “sobriety-related” because a sober person is somehow involved. See how foolish and dishonest this is?
So, when you hear that “40% of fatal  traffic accidents are alcohol related”, you are hearing a fictitious number.
Many accidents include passengers, the other driver, and pedestrians. All of these people must have zero alcohol intake in order to make the accident non-alcohol related. If any one of them has the smallest trace of alcohol, the whole accident is called “alcohol related”.
But wait, it gets worse. Lumped together in the term “alcohol related” is all drugs, including prescribed medication! If there is a prescription bottle for Xanax, a “roach” in the ashtray, a package of rolling papers, or anything else that can be construed as drug-related, the accident goes into the 40% category – even if the drugs are found on a passenger or pedestrian! So, since most elderly Americans are taking some type of prescription medication, their unfortunate traffic deaths become a significant part of these phony statistics.
So, the government statisticians start with defective definitions, deceitfully discard nondrinking drivers to create false high percentages, add drinking pedestrians to the mix, then for extra spice they add drug possessing drivers to their cauldron of fraudulent figures. The final mess is taken out of context then spoon-fed to the MADD mothers and the 6 o’clock news as if it were the Word of God when it’s actually propaganda to support severe laws that defy logic and the Bill of Rights.
NHTSA’s numbers are lies but the resultant brutal laws are very real. Laws such as the confiscation and sale of cars for drunk driving, “implied consent” laws, “sobriety checkpoints” and no right to a jury trial if arrested on federal land which is 21% of the total and growing.
Incidentally, the federal government owns more than half the land in the West. For example, it owns 83% of Nevada, 65% of Utah and 62% of Idaho and Alaska.
Here are the real numbers:
There are about 35,000 fatal traffic accidents each year in the United States. About 40,000 people die each year in these accidents. 60% of these accidents are single-vehicle. 80% of these are drivers or passengers, 5% are motorcyclists, and 15% are pedestrians. Fatal accidents comprise one half of one percent of reported traffic accidents.
Here’s the logical meltdown of the fictitious 40% figure:
More than 2/3 of traffic deaths are single vehicle crashes, so now we’re down to 13%.
Out of this 13%, 60% are accidents in which no person involved had a blood alcohol level over .10, so now we’re at 5%.
Over 1/3 of these cases are drug related, not alcohol related, which leaves us at 3%.
Half of these cases were caused by road conditions, weather, and sober drivers making errors, which puts us at 1.5%.
So, we can say that about 1.5% of traffic fatalities are caused by alcohol-impaired drivers.
The other 98.5% are caused by other things.
Instead of 25,000 the true number is about 600 innocent people killed annually by drunk drivers.
Of course it’s sad those innocent people died. But one might compare that number to the 2,000 children, most age 4 and younger, who die every year due to abuse or neglect. Or compare it to the 180,000 who die from negligence in hospitals per year. Those are all big numbers, but again, there are 280 million people living in the United States.
How drunk is drunk? USA Today states that a .08 blood alcohol content is “reached by a 120-pound woman who has 2 glasses of wine in 2 hours, or by a 160-pound man who has 3 drinks in 2 hours.”  With attention focused on redefining “drunk,” people tend to forget that when the definition of drunk was dropped to .08, “impaired” was reduced to .05 – that’s a shot and a beer – or essentially “zero tolerance.” From .05 to .08, the police may arrest you at their own discretion and charge you with DUI. That means virtually everyone who stops at a bar is subject to arrest.
If these people constituted an actual threat of imminent danger to the community, it would be all to the good. But they don’t. They’re just regular folks like you and me. There is no evidence that persons below .12 constitute any danger at all.
A nationally publicized study in the February 1997 New England Journal of Medicine concluded that driving with a BAC of .10 is less hazardous than talking on a cell-phone while driving. That, however, is not the way the study and newspapers described the situation. Their words:  “Cell phone talking is as dangerous as drunk driving!”
The only significant difference between talking on a car-phone or talking to a passenger in your car is that passengers can be more distracting.  And yet, the study shows that phone-driving is equal to driving legally drunk. So how risky can “impaired driving” actually be?  That’s clear evidence of how greatly the public has been misled about drinking and driving.
Some of you might remember that New Orleans for many years had drive-up Daquiri stands, where you could pull up and get mixed drinks. There was no law against drinking while driving in Louisiana until a few years ago. You could sip from a whiskey bottle with no fear of arrest.
So, was there carnage on the streets of New Orleans? Not at all. In fact, the numbers of “alcohol-related” accidents and deaths in Louisiana were right at the national average, and didn’t go down after the law was changed in the mid 1990s. Changing the laws in Louisiana did not save lives, although it did harm businesses and turn a whole group of previously law-abiding citizens into criminals.
And that is the real problem. When virtually everyone who drives away from a pub or restaurant is subject to criminal arrest – that’s a police state. When a car and a drivers license can be confiscated before trial, that’s a police state.
How did it all get so fucked up?
Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD) was founded by a group of California women in 1980 after a 13 year old girl was killed by a hit-and-run driver. Since that time MADD has developed into one of the largest and most powerful political action/advocacy organizations in the U.S.
MADD’s activities were originally geared towards legitimate educational and victim support. MADD’s political focus was aimed at removing chronic alcoholic drunk drivers from the nation’s highways. Responsible social drinkers who drove home after a wedding or after good conversation with friends at the neighborhood pub were not targets of MADD’s efforts. Unfortunately, in recent years the organization and most of it’s local chapters has been taken over by ultra-conservative, anti-alcohol extremists who have adopted a political agenda that threatens the second coming of Prohibition.
If MADD’s attempts to criminalize all drinkers really saved lives it would be one thing. However, all available valid government data indicates that it does not.
Around 1985, MADD’s principal founder Candy Lightner left the organization she founded.  Lightner cited a lack of focus on the real public safety issue, that of getting chronic alcoholic drunk drivers off the road. Lightner later became a lobbyist working against laws lowering the legal standard of drunk from .10 to .08.
Today MADD is a slick, multi-million dollar operation that in addition to hardsell mail and telephone soliciting, has a catalogue delivered to more than a million homes, selling the lies along with merchandise such as T-shirts, key chains, watches and many more MADD specialty items.
MADD was the focus of an NBC exposé in which Tom Brokaw looked at the “boiler room operation” of telephone solicitors that worked day and night collecting money and spouting lies for MADD. The company operating the boiler rooms kept 72 cents of every dollar raised of a reported $35 million in telephone contributions.
MADD isn’t the only organization feasting on concocted paranoia:  Two years after MADD arrived on the scene, Students Against Drunk Driving (SADD) was founded by a high school hockey coach named Robert Anastas. Eleven years after he founded it, Anastas retired from SADD, but not without abundant financial rewards: The SADD board of directors gave Anastas a retirement parachute worth more than one million dollars: He received a compensation package worth $316,398 upon his resignation; a $150,000 retirement package and a consulting contract that pays $195,000 annually for two years, $85,000 annually for the next five years, and $75,000 every year after that. It is a big business convincing America that alcohol causes a lot of people to die in horrible crashes. But there are many victims of the resulting legislation.
The number of people arrested in Kemah, Texas each year is greater than the number of innocent fatalities caused by drunk drivers in the entire United States.
To beef up revenues, police agencies unleash special squads to target “impaired” drivers. The suspect is shackled, his car is ransacked, he’s searched and tossed in the patrol car, then photographed, fingerprinted, thrown in a cage, and if he declined to submit to an alcohol test,  he may be strapped down,  have needles plunged into his body and have blood extracted from his veins. And then, even if that person is found Not Guilty, he will spends hundreds, maybe thousands of dollars  for  the  repugnant  experience.  It’s tantamount to armed robbery, kidnapping, and assault and battery, to say the least.
Once arrested these otherwise law-abiding citizens are subjected to imprisonment; huge fines and court costs; costs of probation; unjust property forfeitures; made to attend political re-education meetings; psychological testing; involuntary forced labor; public humiliation; loss of driving privileges; loss of jobs; self esteem; and destruction of their families.
All of that happens because of  lies – a witch hunt.  “If one life can saved, then it’s worth it,”  say the MADD mothers.
This scenario, in varying circumstances, happens about 2 million times every year in America.
Drinking and driving is far from being the #1 cause of accidents. Can you imagine if all the above misery were inflicted on stop sign runners and speeders?  When drivers cruise through stop signs or try to beat yellow lights, those are acts that can cause serious accidents: Acts that unquestionably claim far more innocent victims per year than alcohol.  If a cop spots you trying to beat a red light and writes a ticket, you willingly, albeit grudgingly, pay about $100.  However, you will not be arrested, you will not lose thousands of dollars, you will not be carted off to jail, you will not lose your right to drive, you will not lose your car, you will not be placed on probation, you will not be forbidden to leave the state, you will not be forced to attend a behavior modification program, and your life will go on.
If you’ve read this far, you’ve seen enough to realize that the “war on drunk drivers” is not being waged solely against drinking drivers who are merely pawns in a much larger game: This is a war against alcohol.
Over the past decade, there’s been a reported gradual decline in “alcohol-related” fatal traffic accidents.  MADD is taking credit, and many are mindlessly giving it to them. What they don’t mention is that there has been a gradual decline in ALL traffic deaths, not just “alcohol related”. I bet it has more to do with anti-lock brakes, safety inspections, and air bags. The only thing MADD can rightfully take credit for is the wanton vandalism of the Bill of Rights and for inflicting chaos upon the lives of millions of drivers who have harmed no one but have nevertheless been dragged through the criminal justice system while being denied their “inalienable rights” and watching their bank accounts wiped out and placed in the hands of those who wish to  rob more powerless drivers.
During the past ten years, a lot of draconian laws have been passed. The drinking age has been raised from 18 to 21 (the kids are still drinking, but without any supervision – or they’ve turned to drugs). Have fatality rates due to drunk drivers really dropped? Nope. The general trend for all traffic deaths has gone down, due to air bags and anti-lock brakes. There is no indication that MADD’s agenda has accomplished anything. Their initial mission, to remove chronic alkies from the roads, was accomplished a long time ago. Since then they have become ineffective – but they have too much money and political clout to simply fade away. So they are now into preventing “date rape”, raising taxes, and supporting gun control laws – issues that have nothing to do with drunk driving.
Ten thousand years ago, the discovery of the intoxicating effects of fermented barley motivated the shift from hunting and gathering to agriculture. The desire for beer caused a fundamental shift in human society. Our forefathers gathered at taverns where they hoisted a mug of ale and decided to fight for liberty. Drinking beer has been a benefit to society, and when they make beer drinkers into criminals (and they have already done so), you are no longer living in a free country.
Twenty four years ago there was a group of ladies who started a group to educate the public on the dangers of drunk driving. This has evolved into a political cause hell-bent on changing America’s social habits. They use flawed data and inflammatory rhetoric to achieve their goals and will continue to do so in the future. The biggest threat to this country today is social engineering, not the beer coming out of Milwaukee. If people choose not to drink then fine, but when they try to make criminals out of people who enjoy a legal and taxable product then it is time to question their credibility and that of those who support their efforts.
Drunk driving – the real thing – is bad. But the “cure” has now become far worse than the disease.   …GATOR

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Bar Talk

My Idea of a Stimulus Package…

Things could be much worse. The last time a depression smacked this country down, you couldn’t legally buy any alcohol. Instead, the average Joe had to deal with an underground economy, the speakeasies and bootleggers; and it should be noted that the booze industry was the only one that truly boomed during the Great Depression.
Which leads me, by way of my own brand of tortured logic, to believe that it up to us drinkers to get this current economy back on its feet. If not us, who? Let’s be frank: teetotalers are a pessimistic and morbid lot. What do they care if the economy goes to hell? Their lives suck anyway, so what’s one more shadow in their pit of gloom?
We drinkers, on the other hand, are the personification of optimism and hope. When Ike smashed ashore and everything went to hell, which group kept their wits about them and organized havens of civility and order? The bars and the drinkers, that’s who.
Historically, drinkers have always held high the torch of hope where others fell into despair and whimpered for mercy. Sometimes it meant setting things on fire with the same torch, but that was just to wake those gloomy bastards up. Yes, it is plain we must stagger forth to inspire the country with our natural confidence and cheer.
We must be boozed-up Churchills defiantly flinging empty bottles at the encroaching darkness; we must be rum-emboldened John Paul Joneses informing the bouncers of doom that while they may well have us in a masterful headlock, we have not yet begun to fight.
The watchwords of the day should not be “Who is John Galt?” but rather “Go tell it to the drinkers.” We’ll set them straight, especially if they’re buying.
That’s not to say the government can’t pitch in. There are several constructive things they could do to help:
Allow drinking on the job. So long as there isn’t risk to life or limb involved, workers should be allowed to have at it while on the clock. A sixer of beer on every desk, a full bottle of vodka in every watercooler, a giddy smile on every face. A great fleet of portable bars and undeportable bartenders should roll through every office building and factory like great harbingers of hope.
Imagine the inspiration and motivation this would unleash. Guys would be storming into work 15 minutes early, practically demanding to get down to business.
Force bars to stay open 24/7. That whole “last call” thing plainly smacks of defeatism. Millions of new bartending, cocktail waitress and cab driver jobs would open up, and it would foster a real sense that the nation is ready to get rolling again, at any possible moment. It would create more opportunity for entrepreneurs to hatch those brilliant schemes that can only be incubated in bars, like topless golf courses and edible swimsuits.
Every worker receives a six-pack, jug of wine or bottle of liquor with each paycheck. The effect would be immediate. It would not only serve to rid the workforce of a great deal of stress, it would instill massive amounts of consumer confidence. There’s nothing like a belly full of booze to make you want to go out and spread some of the wealth around.
Raise the DUI level from .08 to .15 after 9pm every day. This will provide a window of opportunity to increase sales without endangering the church folks, who are supposed to be at home sleeping or watching American Idiot.
At .15 blood alcohol content, a woman is quite capable of saying “no” based on research I have conducted.  At .08, she isn’t yet capable of saying “yes”. There should be a happy medium we can agree on somewhere.
Arise, ye drinkers.  This country needs us now more than ever before.  It is only us who know that the glass is not half-empty or half-full, it just needs to be topped off.

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Bad Sam on the Federal Reserve scam

“The Federal Reserve Bank is not federal, has no reserves, and is not a bank. It is an illusion,  like Doctor Phil, who is not really a doctor, and whose name is not actually Phil.”

The world’s largest scam, explained:

The Federal Reserve Bank is not federal, has no reserves, and is not a bank. It is an illusion,  like Doctor Phil, who is not really a doctor, and whose name is not actually Phil.  The Fed is not a part of our government and is not controlled by our government. Our own government does not issue currency and does not print money. They do not control the printing of money. All of our money comes from the Federal Reserve. So when you hear someone say that Obama or the government is printing money like crazy, they are uninformed.
The Federal Reserve Bank is 100% owned by private banking interests. Several international banks control it and share in the profits that it earns by manipulating our financial markets.
When the Federal Reserve prints $10, they do not “give” it to our government. They loan it to the government and to the taxpayers. They charge us interest on this loan. So when they print $10, we immediately owe them  $11. Since this is more money than they have actually printed, we will always owe the Fed more money than they have ever actually printed. Paying off the National Debt is therefore a mathematical impossibility. This interest continues to snowball, until the amount of the debt finally surpasses the ability of the people to pay, and the Federal Reserve is left with only one option: Squeeze the people tighter and tighter in order to postpone the impending and unavoidable systemic collapse that must eventually occur.
That’s where the nation of Greece is right now. That’s where Iceland was a couple of years ago. That’s where Europe is heading; and that’s where we are about to go in America.
We are being squeezed down into lesser jobs and lower standards of living, in order to make sure that the Federal Reserve gets paid. “We will loan you some more money, but you’re going to have to cut back on living expenses so you can make higher and higher payments to us!”
Some people say that’s how capitalism works. Bullshit. This has nothing to do with capitalism.
It’s actually about an unconstitutional private group of billionaires who control our country.
Article I, Section 8, Clause 5, of the United States Constitution provides that Congress shall have the power to coin money and regulate the value thereof.  If the Fed were actually a federal agency, the government could issue US legal tender directly, avoiding unnecessary interest-bearing debt to private middlemen who create the money out of thin air themselves. Among other benefits to the taxpayers, a truly “federal” Federal Reserve could lend to state and local governments interest-free, cutting the cost of infrastructure in half, restoring the thriving local economies of earlier decades. The trillions of dollars of US debt could be exchanged dollar for dollar with real US currency as the debt becomes due. There would be no inflation because there would be no additional currency in circulation. The tax burden could be cut if we took back the Fed and this would cause our economy to rapidly expand.
The Federal Reserve is the largest single creditor of the United States Government, and they are also the people who decide how much the average persons car payments are going to be, what their house payments are going to be, and whether they even have a job or not.
Not only do they have too much power, but that power is not granted by the Constitution.
They are illegal, interloping, blood-sucking parasites. They are a criminal enterprise.
Incidentally, this is the only common ground between the Tea Party and the Occupy Wall Street movements.  Both groups know that the Federal banking system is the real problem.
On this, if nothing else, ultra conservatives and ultra liberals can find agreement.
In Iceland, when their own version of the Federal Reserve defaulted on loans owed to the IMF (International Monetary Fund – the global Fed), the voters banged pots and pans in the street until the government scheduled early elections. 90% of the voters said “no” to bailing out the banks. The president of Iceland afterward said “The banks are privately owned. The people are not responsible for private business failures.” The money-changers were aghast, and predicted Iceland would become a third-world country within a few months.  Instead, the economy of Iceland is recovering quite nicely. The economy is steadily growing and there is a boom in small businesses. Unemployment has dropped from a high of 9.9% down to 7.3% this year.
In Argentina, where the government defaulted to the tune of $100 billion, and rejected the idea of paying an insurmountable debt to foreign banks, there is a major economic boom going on. Things are going so well that the Argentine government is providing free laptops, health care, child care, pay raises and pension raises to all. Unemployment is at an all-time low.
In America, in 1963, President John Kennedy wanted an end to the Federal Reserve System, which had a strangle-hold on the United States and virtually the world. By a stroke of the pen, President Kennedy dismissed the Federal Reserve System and ordered the US government to restore its Constitutional mandate of controlling the currency. He ordered the Treasury Department to start printing debt-free US currency. President Kennedy was dead three weeks later. When President Lyndon Johnson took office, he immediately rescinded Kennedy’s order and the “Kennedy notes” were quietly and quickly removed from circulation.
In New York City, in 1861, President Abraham Lincoln showed up with his hat in his hand to ask the Fed banksters (then known as the Associated Banks) to lend money to the government in order to preserve the Union. The banks demanded 20-30%, thinking they had Lincoln over a barrel. The new president declined the usurious offer. An old friend of Lincoln’s, Colonel Dick Taylor of Chicago, was put in charge of solving the problem of how to finance the war. His solution was: “Get Congress to pass a bill authorizing the printing of full legal tender notes and pay your soldiers with them and go ahead and win your war with them also.” When Lincoln asked if the people of America would accept the notes Taylor said. “The people or anyone else will not have any choice in the matter, if you make them full legal tender. They will have the full sanction of the government and be just as good as any money; as Congress is given that express right by the Constitution.”  Lincoln agreed to try this solution and printed 450 million dollars worth of the new bills using green ink on the back to distinguish them from other notes.  He explained it thusly: “The government should create, issue and circulate all the currency and credit needed to satisfy the spending power of the government and the buying power of consumers. The privilege of issuing money is not only the supreme prerogative of Government, but it is the Government’s greatest creative opportunity.” The solution worked so well Lincoln was considering adopting this emergency measure as a permanent policy. Lincoln’s opposition to the central banks is well documented. He would certainly have killed off the national banks monopoly had he not been killed himself only 41 days after being re-elected.
The same solution could and would work today. People are starting to realize that in the final analysis, the Federal Reserve banking system is the problem.
Thomas Jefferson stated, “If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around them will deprive the people of all property until their children will wake up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered.”
This prophecy by Jefferson is being fulfilled right now, in our generation.
It is time for the American people to demand that the Federal Reserve Banking system be made fully accountable to the people or abolished entirely. We should not have to pay interest on our own money. A private group of investors should not have absolute control over our national economy.  Our tax dollars should never be used to bail out private monopolies.
Neither political party is innocent. Both are guilty of selling our country to Wall Street, an act of treason for which they should be held fully accountable.

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It Really Happened

Police Search For Suspect Who Crapped in Washing Machine
Dickinson Police are investigating the possibility that a homeless person has been taking care of his bathroom needs in the laundry room of a local apartment complex.
According to police reports, a resident at the Piney Oaks Apartments returned to the laundry room on November 3rd to find a man sitting on a washing machine she had been using, which still contained a load of her clothes. When the man said “excuse me” the victim left the laundry and returned to her apartment, where she notified her husband.
The woman’s husband was reportedly afraid to confront the man alone, so he called police. By the time officers were able to respond, the suspect had left a surprise in the washer and departed.
Police are looking for a suspect described as 45-50 years of age, possibly homeless, last seen wearing a ragged brown Aggies jacket and a Red Man Tobacco baseball cap.

Massive Marijuana Stash Slowly Going Up In Smoke
West Cove is a little dot on the map near Beaumont. The police in West Cove consist of one officer, Police Chief Nick Gonadino. In April, Gonadino stopped a semi-trailer containing 20 tons of marijuana. Since that time, the stash has been stored in the tiny jail at West Cove. With the jail full, Gonadino has quit patrolling and making arrests.
“I have to protect this evidence, and supervise the controlled burning of it” Chief Gonadino said. Because his department does not have an incinerator, the illegal weed must be burned by hand, using a barbecue pit located behind the station. Recently an unfavorable wind filled a nearby convenience store with fumes from the burning, causing them to sell out of potato chips.
Patrons were seen giggling and cavorting nude in the incident. Gonadino downplays any hint of danger to the public, however. “Hey man, so maybe some people are gonna get mellow and cop some munchies. Ever since that truck got here, things are like, really groovy in West Cove. The scene is like, really out of sight.” Gonadino says that numerous spectators attend the daily burnings, even though the fumes are very strong.

Newspaper Sued For Libel and Slander by BASTARDS
A small newspaper in the bayside communities of Galveston County has been sued by a group of stupid busybodies called the Bayside Association to Stop Tobacco And Related Dangerous Substances (BASTARDS).
The lawsuit claims the paper libeled and slandered these stupid crooks.
According to documents obtained at the courthouse, the members of the anti-smoker group are alleging that the Seabreeze News made “derogatory and libelous” statements about officials of the organization both  “knowingly and intentionally” in an issue published in April of this year.
The newspaper reported on allegations of vote-fixing, under-the-table deals, and malfeasance. The story stated that the BASTARDS were inherently dishonest, and that residents no longer trust the BASTARDS. Some citizens, the paper said, think the BASTARDS ought to face criminal charges and jail time. The paper also said the greedy fuckers were stealing funds.
Attorney Basil Boner Jr. filed the lawsuit on behalf of the BASTARDS on November 3rd. The blood-sucking plaintiffs seek an undisclosed sum of cash and printed retractions.
Legal observers anticipate that the suit could be expanded to include additional publications who may carry derogatory stories about the BASTARDS.
It is against state law for a newspaper to say that the dishonest thieving fuckers are screwing the shit out of everybody, and any publisher who does so runs the risk of being sued by these crooked sons of bitches.

 

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San Leon UFO Crash

Mystery Of San Leon UFO Crash Grows

Whatever it was that crashed to Earth in San Leon on September 24th, it has generated a lot of interest from the United States government and from private investigative groups. In fact, motels in the area are practically filled with researchers and bureaucrats from all over the country.
The known facts are that on the evening of September 24th, several witnesses saw a fiery object moving at a high rate of speed fall from the sky and land in a cow pasture at 18th Street and Broadway.  This occurred just after 5:30 pm.
The object reportedly exploded in a fireball upon impact, setting the field afire.  The first responders to arrive were the San Leon Volunteer Fire Department.  They were reportedly unaware of what had started the blaze, but battled flames that threatened to get out of control in the dry gusty conditions on that date.  They finally brought the blaze under control at about 7 pm. The fire covered about 60 acres of pasture, and no buildings were destroyed.
At first. Assistant Fire Chief Scott Lyons was very cooperative, telling us that the object might have been a meteorite, or part of a falling satellite. We published that information in our last issue.
Since then, Lyons and other officials won’t speak “on the record” about the incident, saying they cannot comment on cases that are still under investigation.  They were unable to disclose exactly what is under investigation, or even whether there is any investigation regarding the incident.
In the meanwhile, a team of scientists from the NASA Space Center visited the scene the morning after the fire, and closed the area off with yellow crime scene warning tape.  They encamped at the spot for two days, and – judging from the mess they left behind – removed a large amount of dirt from the site.
Unmarked helicopters, presumably military, have also been seen hovering above the site and flying around it on several occasions recently.
A neighbor who asked not to be named, wrecker service owner Sam Adams, said that at one point a member of the NASA crew at the site asked him to bring a winch and assist in loading a truck with some debris from the site.
Adams said he was not able to see what was loaded into the flatbed truck, as it was wrapped up and tied inside of a large tarpaulin. He said whatever it was weighed 600-800 pounds, and was approximately the size of a grand piano.
The NASA crew at the site was wearing white-colored hazmat safety suits, but Adams said they appeared to be wearing US Air Force uniforms underneath.  The one who requested Adams help had an eagle insignia, indicating the rank of Colonel.
“They paid me $100 cash, and I wrote them a receipt. It took about 30 minutes start to finish” Adams reported.
Two days later, after the NASA team had left, there were more visitors poking around in the cow pasture.
On September 27th, a group of at least 5 civilian researchers arrived from New Mexico. We know this because they checked into a local motel, and their vehicles all had “Land Of Enchantment” license plates.  Dianna Reyes of San Leon reported to the Seabreeze on October 30th that she had spoken with a female college student from the group who said they were investigating the crash of a UFO in San Leon.  She met the woman at Sullivan Pharmacy in Bacliff on the 28th.
Reyes said she had not read the story in our last issue, and knew nothing about any UFO crash until later when she told her husband about it. He then told her about the fire, and the meteorite theory that had been published in the newspaper.
The following day, Reyes also told her boyfriend, who encouraged her to contact us and KHOU News in Houston.
Reyes said that the young woman she met was very enthusiastic about whatever had happened in San Leon.  “She sounded pretty sure that it was a UFO that crashed, and that the government had taken away the evidence.”
Other civilian investigators have also turned up at the site, which is now the subject of several internet web pages. One refers to it as “Area 52 – San Leon Texas” while another claims that tiny bits of debris have been found which are unlike any known objects – tiny bits of a very light metallic substance.
One UFO blogger who claimed to have visited the site said that readings taken with a magnometer indicate that there was a tremendous amount of energy released at the point of impact.  He claims the readings were what might be expected at the site of a large explosion created by a bomb, missile, or comet.  “This release of energy was very concentrated and powerful, much greater than would be seen in the case of a meteor or space debris” he concluded.
This is confirmed by eyewitness Jerry Long of San Leon, who saw the object fall and the subsequent explosion, then dialed 9-1-1. “I saw it fall out of the corner of my eye, I didn’t really get a good look. But as I turned that way, it hit the ground and blew up like a huge bomb. The ground shook.  The flames shot out in every directions for hundreds of feet.  I fell down on the ground, I was so startled and shaken.”
Our attempts to get some comment from NASA was unsuccessful.  We were referred to the Public Affairs Officer at the Johnson Space Center, Michael Kincaid, who said the only thing he had the authority to do would be to send us a brochure about the Space Center and Museum and tours.
“Speaking off the record, and not for publication” Kincaid said, “I can tell you that the object seen by the witnesses in San Leon was most likely a reflection of swamp gases caused by decaying vegetation in the nearby bayou.”
The UFO/Roswell community is astir about what happened in San Leon on September 24th, and they are clearly not buying the meteor theory.  “What did they remove from the site?  Why did they do so?” asks Leon Baine, author of a book called “One Thousand Tomorrows” – a book about the government policy toward UFOs that was framed during the Eisenhower years.  Baine says that the government still uses the “deny and attack” policy adopted over 50 years ago.  “They deny everything, and attack the witnesses. It‘s the official policy” he stated.
As we go to press, another small group of civilian researchers has arrived in San Leon, where they are interviewing all of the witnesses and photographing the site of the crash.

 

ALMOST FORGOTTEN: This is not the first time San Leon has made the news regarding possible UFO activity. This snapshot was taken in 1968 by a San Leon resident, the late Henry Janner. Janner reported sighting this unidentified flying object near his business, Captain Henry’s on Bayshore Drive, on August 2, 1968. Janner’s photograph was first published in the August 5, 1968 edition of the Houston Tribune. According to the caption published with the photo, a group of approximately 30 people also claimed they saw the object.

 

 

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Gator’s Rant

There is an SPCA located in San Leon, so a lot of folks who have animals to get rid of, for whatever reason, drive to San Leon to discard their unwanted pets.
Upon arrival, many of these folks find that the SPCA does not allow you to just drop ‘em off and zoom away in a fog of burning rubber.
And sometimes, the SPCA is closed.
Having made the trek to San Leon, and expected to return petless, many of these people have, over the course of years, contributed to the stray animal population in tiny San Leon, where abandoned and feral pets outnumber humans now by a staggering 80:1 ratio.
Among those is reputed to be the famous “black ninja dog” of San Leon. This apparently nocturnal canine is known to have caused at least fifty auto crashes in recent years, by darting out in front of vehicles, thus causing the driver to swerve into a ditch, pole, house, car, or other natural obstruction.
Insurance and police reports are replete with descriptions of  a black dog suddenly appearing out of nowhere, causing an accident, then disappearing into the night. Most of these reported accidents occurred after 1 AM.
While the town mayor and a posse of dog-catchers have set about to stop him, the black ninja dog of San Leon has managed to evade all attempts to capture or kill him.
But that ain’t what I’m ranting about.
It’s about all of the stray animals running around in San Leon.
They’ve been downsized and outsourced. They’ve lost their health insurance and their unemployment benefits have run out.
And now, they’re homeless.
I know that if our readers could show some heart, we could solve this. If each reader could find room in their heart to adopt just one dog and eleven cats, there would be only half as many homeless pets in San Leon.
So, on Saturday, October 22nd, we are sponsoring a free rock concert in San Leon, starting at noon and going all day.
We will not ask for contributions or donations at the event, although we do recommend donating to the SPCA in San Leon.
All we are asking is that, on your way home after the concert, grab as many stray pets as you can reasonably feed and love, and take them with you.
Get ‘em shots and a dog tag. Take ‘em to the vet. Provide a good home.
It’s illegal as hell, I guess, but “the system” seems to be failing these little guys.
Come out to San Leon and grab some pets. You have to catch them yourself, but it’s so easy a blind man with a fish net could get three of them in less than a minute.
The date is Saturday, October 22 at Waynos in San Leon. Bands include Slide Effect, Circle Of Agression (COA), Jeremy Bradshaw, Texas Gunz, Guppies, GBA Band, Richard The Drifter and others.
There is no cover charge and tickets will not be sold or required.
Incidentally, I talked to a friend who works for the SPCA, and was advised that this is not such a good idea. Among the concerns is that these pets who are adopted in such a “bootleg” fashion may go to homes where they are no better off than before. Okay… And…
There is that slight chance that they may be a stray, not abandoned – that somewhere, little Mikey is staring out the window, wondering if Boo Boo will ever come home.
They also haven’t been screened to see if they are safe and healthy enough to be pets. They may also be emotionally scarred from their experiences as the yard-dog of a yuppie in Freindswood or as the couch-cat of a divorced stripper in a no-pets apartment complex in Clear Lake. Yeah. Whatever.
I don’t give a damn about all of that.
As the blues teaches us all: Somethin’s better than nothin’. If I was a cat, I’d rather live with the craziest cat-lady in Pasadena than be out on the mean streets of San Leon, foraging for fish-heads and eating cigarette butts.
So come down and enjoy the music with a bunch of nice people, and – only if you can – leave with a new friend.

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It Really Happened…

Dying To Get Into Jail, Old Man Knocks Off Bank for $1.00
James Verone had $16 in his pocket when he left home one morning a few weeks ago.
He cleaned up and put on his nicest shirt, then called a taxi.
Along the way, he stopped to mail a letter to the newspaper, then went on to the local bank, where he apologetically and politely robbed them of one dollar.
Then he sat down and waited for the cops.
At the age of 59, James Verone had found himself unemployed after layoffs eliminated his job as a delivery driver. He also lost his health insurance.
James looked for work, but no one wants to hire guys his age, and eventually, his unemployment benefits ran out.
He found a part-time job as a clerk in a small convenience store, but found it impossible to get by on $145 a week take-home pay.
For awhile, he lived off his savings and the remnants of his 401k Plan. Then he started to have health problems.
Arthritis, foot troubles, and back problems finally resulted in Verone applying for Social Security Disability, but he was denied.
Then, on top of his other illnesses, he discovered a painful lump growing on his chest.
He tried to get medical treatment, but the emergency rooms only referred him to doctors who insisted on being paid, money Verone simply didn’t have.
Believing that he had cancer, suffering from intense pain, and unable to find any medical help, James Verone carefully weighed his options. He first considered committing suicide, but decided that would create a burden on the few family members he had left – folks not much better off than himself. Then he had another idea: commit a crime and get set up with a place to stay, food and doctors.
So it was that James Verone decided to become a criminal. He had never before been in any trouble with the law.
Now he hoped to be booked as a felon and held in prison where he could be treated for his physical afflictions.
Verone didn’t want to scare anyone. He executed the robbery the most passive way he knew how. He handed the teller a polite note demanding one dollar. He calmly told her he would sit in the visitors area and wait for the police. When they arrived, he went along with them quietly and peacefully.
Verone says he’s not a political man. But he has a lot to say on the subject of medical care. “If you don’t have your health you don’t have anything,” said Verone.

James had high hopes for his incarceration.
The ideal scenario would include back and foot surgery and a diagnosis and treatment of the protrusion on his chest.
Verone expected to be charged with bank robbery. He would serve a few years in prison and get out in time to collect Social Security and move to the beach.
But it wasn’t to be. Because he only demanded $1, he was charged with larceny from a person. The count doesn’t carry as much jail time as bank robbery.
The bearded, gray-haired man plans to represent himself in court. He wants to prepare a statement for the judge and then take whatever active sentence he is given.
Verone is considering an ultimatum if the penalty isn’t great enough, he said.
The crime will happen again.
Since Verone’s arrest, his $100,000 bond has been reduced to $2,000. He doesn’t intend to pay it. His residence is now the county jail.
He has no regrets about the robbery or where it landed him. “I did what I had to in order to stay alive” he said.

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Brew Ha Ha

A pothead is walking down the street one day and he meets a genie. “Today is your lucky day!” said the genie. “I’m going to give you two wishes. What will the first wish be?” The pothead thinks for a moment and then says, “I want a never-ending joint.” So the genie snaps his fingers and there is this king-sized joint. The hippie lights it up and starts puffing. After three hits the joint is still the same length. Next the genie says, “…And wish number two?” The pothead replies, “This is so cool man! I’ll have another one!”

A blonde and brunette are having tea when suddenly the phone rings. The blonde picks it up and immediately starts crying.
Her brunette friend asks her, “Why are you crying dear?”
Blonde says, “Because my mom just called and said that my father just died.
“I’m so sorry,” says the brunette.
The blonde finally stops crying, when the phone rings again. She picks it up and starts crying all over again.
The brunette asks again what’s wrong, to which the blonde replies, “My brother just called and said that his father died too.”

I was out for a drink with the wife last night and I said, “I love you”.
She asked me, “Is that you or the beer talking”
I said, “It’s me……..I’m talking to the beer”!

3 guys walk into a bar
The first guy says “I have got the smallest arm in? the world”
The second guy “I have the smallest head in the world”
The third guy “I have got the smallest dick in the world”
The 3 guys go to the Guinness World Records
The first guy comes back and says “I really do have? the smallest? arm in the world”
The second guy comes back and says “Amazing, I do have the smallest head in the world”
The third guy comes back angry ” Who the FUCK is JUSTIN BEIBER?

Two men from Texas were sitting at a bar, when a young lady nearby began to choke on a hamburger. She gasped and gagged, and one Texan turned to the other and said, That little gal is havin’ a bad time. I’m agonna go over there and help.”
He ran over to the young lady, held both sides of her head in his big, Texan hands, and asked, “Kin ya swaller?” Gasping, she shook her head no. He asked, “Kin ya breathe?” Still gasping, she again shook her head no.
With that, he yanked up her skirt, pulled down her panties and licked her on the butt. The young woman was so shocked that she coughed up the piece of hamburger and began to breathe on her own. The Texan sat back down with his friend and said, “Ya know, it’s sure amazin’ how that hind-lick maneuver always works.”

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Wall Street Protesters Are Legitimate American Heroes

Wall Street Protesters Are Legitimate American Heroes
The media wants you to think of the kids who are protesting at Occupy Wall Street and similar protests as wacky hippie types. They have zeroed in on the more lurid aspects of this massive upheaval, without paying serious attention to what the protests are really all about.
The Republicans are trying to portray Occupy Wall Street as being cooked up by President Obama and the Democratic Party. The Dems express “solidarity” with the protesters, hoping to somehow scoop up another new clique of potential voters to add to their “rainbow coalition.” All of them are wrong. All of them are cynical parts of the same fucked up establishment which is actually the target of the Occupy Wall Street movement.
These kids are getting clubbed on the head and pepper-sprayed. They are frequently arrested. Their names are being added to the “no fly” list, meaning they can never board a commercial airline flight. They are not being paid to be there, and many of them are there at great personal cost. They are doing this because they believe that the problems which have sent this country into the second Great Depression have been caused by Wall Street, The Federal Reserve Bank, and our corporate system. In short, they are patriotic Americans, doing what Americans do when they see injustice. Not only do they have the right to protest, but, in this case, they are absolutely correct. They have accurately identified the guilty party, and stand outside it‘s doors demanding justice for all. Wall Street is responsible for what is wrong in America.
If you are among the very wealthy, the last thing you want to see is more jobs for working Americans. More jobs cause inflation. Inflation eats away at the fortunes of the rich. More jobs also drive wages higher, increasing costs and reducing corporate profits.
As long as unemployment remains high, inflation will stay under control. Wages will stay low, reducing labor costs for the huge corporations who make up the companies traded on Wall Street. With inflation under control, the cost of borrowing for giant corporations remains low, and they are able to borrow – while fewer and fewer Americans can even qualify for a car loan.
And if you think the kids at Occupy Wall Street are Democrats, think again. Effigies of Obama are seen in the marches. These kids know that neither political party is willing to challenge Wall Street. There are no significant political figures from either party out there representing the protesters. Not a single politician there. Don’t you think Jesse Jackson or Sarah Palin would be there, soaking up the media exposure, if they thought they could get away with it?
Politicians of both parties have found that they are unwelcome and unwanted.
Hurray for those kids! You guys are right, the politicians ARE all crooks!
Of course all of the leading conservatives defend the Wall Street elite. But so do all of the leading liberals, and President Obama is at the top of the list. His top campaign contributor is Goldman Sachs. He put a Citigroup executive in charge of his economic transition team, and named an executive of JP Morgan Chase as his chief of staff.  Then he appointed Timothy Geithner Secretary of the Treasury. Geithner arranged the bailouts of Bear Sterns and AIG and supervised the massive bank bailout program. Obama is working for the dark side. He might talk about jobs, but he isn’t going to do a damned thing to actually create employment.
The President and his administration claim there is a recovery going on. This is based on the fact that “productivity” continues to improve. It’s often called a “jobless recovery.”
What does it mean when they say productivity has improved? It simply means that the profit margins have gone up. In this case, labor and borrowing costs have gone down, driving up “productivity.” So corporations make more profits because labor and borrowing costs have gone down. That’s what we are supposed to believe is a recovery. What a pile of bullshit!
That’s why this alleged recovery benefits no one but the very wealthy. And that’s why the kids on Wall Street are absolutely correct in targeting Wall Street.
Virtually every major bank and financial company on Wall Street has been embroiled in truly obscene criminal scandals that have impoverished millions and destroyed trillions of dollars of the world’s wealth, yet nobody goes to jail. Nobody, that is, except Bernie Madoff, a wacky flamboyant pathological celebrity con artist, whose victims happened to be other wealthy and famous people. And he was self-employed, neither an actual broker or banker.
The rest of them, all of them, have gotten off. Not a single executive who ran the companies that cooked up the scams involving the mass sale of fraudulent mortgage-backed securities has ever been convicted. Their names are familiar: AIG, Goldman Sachs, Lehman Brothers, JP Morgan, Chase Bank and Morgan Stanley. These firms were directly involved in fraud and theft. Lehman Brothers intentionally hid billions in loans from its investors. Bank of America lied about billions in bonuses to executives. Goldman Sachs failed to tell clients how it put together the toxic mortgage deals it was selling. None of the executives who committed these crimes have ever faced justice.  Instead, federal regulators and prosecutors have let the banks and brokerages that tried to burn the world economy to the ground get away with it.
In fact, they have been treated to trillions of dollars of OUR money in the bailout schemes by both the Bush and Obama regimes, effectively rewarding them for their thefts!
Every now and then, the federal government has “fined” someone.  What good is it to fine a billionaire who stole $100 million a trifling $25,000?  If you really want to make them do right, send a few of them off to an east Texas “Pound ‘em in the ass” prison!
But our government can’t do that, because Wall Street has taken control of our government, both parties, both houses, and the presidency. They have overthrown our republic with dollars stolen from we the people. No matter who wins the nominations of the two major parties, Wall Street will own the eventual winner. And they will press on to their goal: 30% unemployment.
At 30% unemployment, corporate financial experts say, the proper balance of productivity and demand is reached, and large corporations enjoy maximum “productivity.”
At 30% unemployment, “will work for food” is no longer a slogan, it is a way of life.
The Wall Street protesters are the only group in America who are actively fighting this agenda.
Because these Wall Street protesters are right, all good Americans should support them.
At least they have the courage to stand up for the truth. And it is clearly the truth.
All of us have watched as huge corporations have swallowed up American small businesses. We have watched as salaries, pensions, and employee benefits have shrunk. We have watched American jobs outsourced to foreign countries in the name of “productivity.”
We have changed presidents and parties, but the one thing which remains constant is that our government is supporting those who are stealing the very bread out of our children’s mouths.
The protesters on Wall Street are fed up. They refuse to go along with it anymore.
Because they are NOT politicized, they all have different ideas about how to fix the problem, but they all agree that there IS a problem, and that the heart of the beast is Wall Street.
They are paying the price because they want to see Americans take back our country from the criminal financial gangs who have taken it over, lock stock and barrel.
They are surely as deserving of the same kind of honor and respect from this country as any of those who have served in the defense of liberty from Thomas Payne until today.
They are soldiers fighting against the enemies of America. They do so without pay, and against impossible odds. They are American patriots driven by a thirst for justice.
A new generation of heroes has arisen in New York City. Long live the USA.

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BarTalk


Building Up Your Drinking Team:
Other than a very few places in major tourist destinations, the nightclub business relies on repeat customers. It is the regular crowd that is going to make you or break you.
If you want to improve sales at your bar, the single most important factor is going to be creating a steady clientele who will help you pay the bills month-in and month-out.
The way a person becomes a regular customer works like this: One day, for some reason, they show up at your place. In some way they are made to feel comfortable, welcome, or satisfied by their visit. They return again a few days later, and perhaps bring a friend or two along. This starts happening on a regular basis. They’ve joined up.
According to statistics, each regular customer in the liquor end of the hospitality business is worth just over $3,500.00 in annual sales, so it is a significant event for your business every time you win one new regular client.
The two things you have control of in this equation are:
1. Getting them to show up at your place.
2. Making them want to come back.
If you fail at either one, you will fail to build up a steady clientele. #2 is clearly the most important of the two.
You can draw crowds to your place with 50 cent draft, live bands, cheap drinks, free food, or by various methods of advertising. But, no matter how many feet pass through the door, none of it is going to do any good if you and your staff are not focused on recruiting them as regulars.
Yes, I said recruiting. There are as many different kinds of customers as there are fish in the sea.  You want to pay special attention to the ones who spend money, have lots of friends, and cause as little trouble as possible.
Everybody likes to take their pals out to a place where they can say they are “friends” with the owner.  Say hello, shake hands. And always remember, one guy who spends $100 is far better than twenty guys who spend $5 each!
It is very important for servers to know how much more money they can earn by recruiting regular patrons. Each regular is good for an average of $525 per year in tips.
Staff should make customers feel welcome, comfortable, and  happy. They should learn to pay particular attention to visitors who might make good regulars.
The bar itself should be comfortable and inviting. It should be clean. Things should always be repaired right away. Your seating should be something a person can sit on for several hours without getting uncomfortable. Bathrooms should be kept clean and smelling fresh. The exterior and parking lot should be clean and tidy.
Once you have got a place someone might want to come back to, now it is time to get some people in the door.
If you decide to advertise, don’t expect to spend $100 and get 25-30 regular customers to join up. You’re not going to get $100,000 in sales out of one ad or flyer!
Realistically, if you do it right, you’ll get one new regular customer for your $100, maybe two if you’re lucky – and if your staff knows how to make regulars out of visitors.
If you’re booking a band for $400, and win just one new regular customer from that night, it will more than pay for the cost of the band. Don’t expect to spend $400 and make ten grand, it simply doesn’t work that way. Real growth is incremental, it’s a long-term thing. That is why I’ve always said that owning a bar is a get-rich-slowly scheme.
Remember, each regular is worth $3,500.00 in sales.
You can use “gimmicks” to get people in the door, but you’re going to have to use sincerity and a commitment to good service to make them return. There are no gimmicks to keeping a steady crowd of good regular customers.
Some people are great at getting people in the door. Others are great at making new friends. Rare and successful is the bar owner or manager who knows how to do both!

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