old settlers

Old Settlers was a shit show. Now normally if I got invited to an "adult dance" held in a barn at a founder's day type festival, I would be a little skeptical that a good time was going to be had. The moment I walked up, the local policeman checked my ID, which I thought was very official for Ferndale. Upon walking in I find out that drink tickets are $3.00 and that includes mixed drinks. Thank you Old Settlers. My first drink was a little less than half vodka and then some cran. As the night went on and the bartender ladies got more drunk, the drinks got stronger. My last drink was barely red they put so much vodka and so little cranberry in it. Those were my type of ladies. After we cruised the dance and nothing super exciting was going on, we headed to the mainstreet bar where a sweet oldies cover band was playing with a HOT bassist. I tried to make eyes at him, I'm sure it failed miserably seeing that I was 5 vodka crans into the night. Old guys grinded on us and then said, "I like the way you swing" hahahaha ew. All and all it was a good time, I had a lot of fun, and a lot of drinks for not too much money. Oh Old Settlers, what a shit show.

not just dogs

So I just read an article about children who are left in the car in the heat and die. It says that since parents are being advised to keep their children in the back seat to avoid death my air bag, many just leave them on accident there!

Kevin Kelly is a law-abiding citizen who, much distracted, left his beloved 21-month-old daughter in a sweltering van for seven hours. Frances Kelly had probably been dead for more than four hours by the time a neighbor noticed her strapped in her car seat; when rescue personnel removed the girl from the vehicle, her skin was red and blistered, her fine, carrot-colored hair matted with sweat. Two hours later, her body temperature was still nearly 106 degrees.

Ok I know that one can get distracted fairly easily, but FOR SEVEN HOURS! Who in their right mind doesn't notice that their 21-month-old daughter has been missing for seven hours and doesn't think anything of it. Not to mention that a neighbor had to find her, he didn't even wise up. I can see taking the groceries in and whatnot and forgetting in the hustle, but then five minutes later you probably go "OH SHIT" and run back out to the car. I mean, thats insane.

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president

Q Mr. President, music is one of our largest exports the country has. Currently, every country in the world -- except China, Iran, North Korea, Rwanda and the United States -- pay a statutory royalty to the performing artists for radio and television air play. Would your administration consider changing our laws to align it with the rest of the world?

THE PRESIDENT: Help. (Laughter.) Maybe you've never had a President say this -- I have, like, no earthly idea what you're talking about. (Laughter and applause.) Sounds like we're keeping interesting company, you know? (Laughter.) Look, I'll give you the old classic: contact my office, will you? (Laughter.) I really don't -- I'm totally out of my lane. I like listening to country music, if that helps. (Laughter.)

I don't expect the president to know all the laws. He probably doesn't know most. The part that I find offensive in this is not that he really has no clue and comes off sounding like a complete and utter idiot. The really offensive part, is that he listens to country, "if that helps".

Draft College Republicans

legos

This is blowing my mind. This guy had a bunch of other art pieces also. People make art out of the craziest stuff. This is just impressive though. I like the pile on the ground. I like short sentences.

LEGOS!

colon issues?

I don't give a shit what is in President Bush's colon unless it's a new foreign policy, or a new outlook on abortion and gay marriage (amongst other things). Apparently the rest of the world does not feel the same:

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