It's True. I'm Leaving

It is true.  I'm Leaving.  Although I am not allowed to say any more until July 5th.   This is a huge opportunity of a lifetime.  But there's a lot of emotion in doing this.  A LOT.  Lansing has been home for so long.    Thank you! ~ Rich

I will try to put more info on my website.   www.richmichaels.com

Scary Tree

Over in the U.K. ......

Crazy huh?

Driving to Work at 80

Drudge had a story today that we will all have to work until we are in our 80's - - if we make it that far because of the whores on Wall Street and people like I used to work for at Citadel Broadcasting!!   HA.  Here's a picture of you driving to work in 40 years .... taken from the future/

Gotta watch out for those Hover-Rounds.

Speaking of my old employer, I wonder who is throwing who under the bus this week???  I hear the copy machines have been running out of paper since they sold for $2.5 billion!!!   Sitings of old boss(s) at other radio establishments .......  har, har

Star Trek Convention

He is either asking for a 'beam up' or he is resetting the space-time continuum to 1974 ,,,,,,,

Didn't Chekov have a briefcase like that on one of the away missions!??

New Florida Swimwear

my eyes ...... somebody poured acid into my eyes ..... HELP!!!!

The Friggin Media

This is so true ....

Obama Voter

Incredible

General Motards

Once again, GM knows how to shoot itself and its employees in the foot/head ... choose your body part.

The CEO wants a dollar tax on every gallon of gas - to make more of his small cars sell.

Any comments?  Plus, Ron sent this:

And now we have this outrageous abuse of the US taxpayer; while at the same time we are sitting on greater oil reserves than the entire Middle East! How's that "Hope and Change" thing working for you? The nutty Liberals are running amuck and destroying our country and the world!

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.THIS CAR COSTS OVER $42,000 The Chevy Volt MUST NOT be allowed to fail! The "Dirty Little Secret Behind the Chevy Volt".... The Rest of the Story.............. Patrick Michaels is a senior fellow in Environmental Studies at the Cato Institute and the editor of the forthcoming Climate Coup: Global Warming's Invasion of our Government and our Lives, as well as the author of several other books on global warming. His Forbes column on the Chevy Volt is a case study in the nexus between big government corruption and big business rent-seeking. Michaels briefly recaps the well-known consumer fraud in which GM has touted the Volt as an all-electric mass production vehicle on the supposed basis of which its sales receive a $7, 500 taxpayer subsidy, which still renders it overpriced and unmarketable. Michaels notes that "sales are anemic: 326 in December, 321 in January, and 281 in February." There seems to be a trend here. Michaels adds that GM has announced a production run of 100, 000 in the first two years and asks what appears to be a rhetorical question: "Who is going to buy all these cars?" But wait! Keep hope alive! There is a positive answer to the question. Jeffrey Immelt's GE will buy a boatload of those uneconomic GM cars. Here the case study opens onto the inevitable political angle: Recently, President Obama selected General Electric CEO Jeffrey Immelt to chair his Economic Advisory Board. GE is also awash in windmills waiting to be subsidized so they can provide unreliable, expensive power. Consequently, and soon after his appointment, Immelt announced that GE will buy 50, 000 Volts in the next two years, or half the total produced. Assuming the corporation qualifies for the same tax credit, we (you and me) just shelled out $375, 000, 000 to a company to buy cars that no one else wants, so that GM will not tank and produce even more cars that no one wants. And this guy is the chair of Obama's Economic Advisory Board? But of course. Michaels includes this hilarious detail in his case study: In a telling attempt to preserve battery power, the heater is exceedingly weak. Consumer Reports their tests averaged a paltry 25 miles of electric-only running, in part because it was testing in cold Connecticut. (The [GM] engineer at the Auto Show said cold weather would have little effect.) It will be interesting to see what the range is on a hot, traffic-jammed summer day, when the air conditioner will really tax the batteries. When the gas engine came on, Consumer Reports got about 30 miles to the gallon of premium fuel; which, in terms of additional cost of high-test gas, drives the effective mileage closer to 27 mpg. A conventional Honda Accord, which seats 5 (instead of the Volt's 4), gets 34 mpg on the highway, and costs less than half of what CR paid, even with the tax break. The story of the GM Volt deserves a place in the Harvard Business School curriculum....but of course, it won't. It's a classic tale of the GOVERNMENT deciding what the public needs, not the marketplace. PS.- Even the guy who sent this to me missed part of the point. What is one of the reasons for this? Why, to keep the UAW in business, because Obama owes them for his election. Starting to make sense yet?

How Hot is It?

My mailbox went up in flames .... couldn't make it to the road and back ...  BEER!!!

How Hot Is it? (go ahead, add your blog)

Took this picture of my back yard a few minutes ago

DAMN it's HOT

How Hot Is It??

Here's Your Sign ...

Todays community bulletin board dedicated to the religion of peace ....

It never changes. Do Gooders! With YOUR money

He said: 'Bono claims to care about the developing world, but U2 greedily indulges in the very kind of tax avoidance that is crippling poor nations.
'We will be showing the very real impact of U2's tax avoidance on hospitals and schools in Ireland. Anyone watching will be made very  aware that Bono needs to pay up.'

 

Bono has previously been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize and granted an honorary knighthood by the Queen in recognition of his charity work and activism.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1394422/Saint-Bono-facing-huge-Glastonbury-protest--avoiding-tax.html#ixzz1ObAH1owD

Keep Clothes on Today

I know it's hot, but your naughty bits are scaring the children!!!

Chris Mathews is drooling again

This POS is really amazing.  Blaming the wife!  

MSNBC's Chris Matthews believes Rep. Anthony Weiner's wife may be "partly responsible" for his sexual misconduct because the Congressman said she was aware of his behavior before they were married. Transcript below:

CHRIS MATTHEWS, MSNBC: "Yeah, but he says his wife knew. He laid it out on her."

JOHN FEEHERY, Republican strategist: "Which is a terrible, terrible mistake."

MATTHEWS: "Well, maybe she's partly responsible if she knew about it?"

Weinerville

Anthony Weiner's Twitter photo ..... *yawn*

The Pastors Ass (thanks Curt)

‎The Pastor's Ass

The Pastor entered his donkey in a race and it won.

The Pastor was so pleased with the donkey

that he entered it in the race again and it won again.

The local paper read:

PASTOR'S ASS OUT FRONT.

The Bishop was so upset with this kind of publicity that he ordered
the Pastor not to enter the donkey in another race.

The next day the local paper headline read :

BISHOP SCRATCHES  PASTOR'S  ASS.

This was too much for the Bishop so he ordered the Pastor to get rid
of the donkey.

The Pastor decided to give it to a Nun in a nearby convent.

The local paper, hearing of the news, posted the following headline
the next day:

NUN HAS BEST ASS IN TOWN.

The Bishop fainted.

He informed the Nun that she would have to get rid of the donkey so
she sold it to a farmer for $10.

The next day the paper read:

NUN SELLS ASS FOR $10.

This was too much for the Bishop so he ordered the Nun to buy back the
donkey and lead it to

the plains where it could run wild.

The next day the headlines read:

NUN ANNOUNCES HER ASS IS WILD AND FREE.

The Bishop was buried the next day.

The moral of the story is . . .

Being concerned about public opinion can bring you much grief and misery . .
even shorten your life.
So be yourself.
Stop worrying about everyone else's ass and you'll be a lot happier

and

live longer!

Have a nice day

Where's Hollywood in our Disaster Relief?

Where are they?

Where are the Hollywood celebrities holding telethons asking for help in restoring Iowa, Missouri, Tennessee, etc., and helping the folks affected by the floods? Where is good old Michael Moore?

Why is the media NOT asking the tough questions about why the federal government hasn't solved this problem?
...Asking where the FEMA trucks and trailers and food services are?

Why isn't the Federal government moving Iowa people into free hotels in Chicago and Minneapolis ?

When will Spike Lee say that the Federal government blew up the levees that failed in Des Moines ?

Where are Sean Penn, Bono, and the Dixie Chicks?

Where are all the looters stealing high-end tennis shoes, cases of beer and television sets?

When will we hear Governor Chet Culver say that he wants to rebuild a 'vanilla' Iowa .. because that's what God wants?

Where is the hysterical 24/7 media coverage complete with reports of shootings at rescuers, of rapes and murder?

Where are all the people screaming that Barack Obama hates white, rural people? My God, where are Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt, Oprah, and Ray Coniff Jr?

How come you will never hear about the Iowa flooding ever again? Where are the government bail out vouchers? The government debit cards?

There must be a big difference between the value of the people of Iowa and value of the people of Louisiana . Pass this unedited, un-doctored, factual information forward ..... to get Americans thinking. Where are all the people that think the Haitians are more important than the good people of Iowa , for that matter.

Grand Rapids Rocks

Nothing else to say but ... what an effort!!   The Grand Rapids LibDub

Hope and Change Explained

How they've got us all duped in Washington that things are getting better!!  LMAO.
Hope and Change.  Subtitled:  "They're peeing on us and telling us it's raining!"

Thanks Careena for the shot ...

Rain - GO AWAY

FOR THE LOVE OF GOD, PLEASE MAKE IT STOP RAINING!!!

Alright.  Main sump pump (3/4 horse) can't keep up ... the secondary is running full tilt ... i've got lakes all around me and there's more rain in the forecast.

 

improvised trench to get water away from house

Note clever use of duct tape above.

 

Flooding out the neighbor!  Sorry!

and another neighbor with newly formed lake

How's your place? 

America

What amazing talent and might has this nation.  We hear constantly the negativity about the things we do wrong.  But this photo says a lot.  To me.  Thanks Erik.

A Funny!

A man was sitting on a blanket at the beach. He had no arms and no legs.

Three women, from England, Scotland and Ireland, were walking past and felt
sorry for the poor man.

The English woman said 'Have you ever had a hug?'
The man said 'No' so she gave him a hug and walked on.

The Scottish woman said, 'Have you ever had a kiss?'
The man said, 'No,' so she gave him a kiss and walked on.

The Irish woman came to him and said, 'ave ya ever been fooked lad?'

The man broke into a big smile and said, no.

She said, 'Aye, and Ya will be when the tide comes in

Definition of Stress

Thanks Mark H ......

Vacation in America

I read a great article about Americans not taking vacation.  And it is true.  Why is it that the German economy seems to do very well and all workers receive 6 weeks vacation?  Is it the wonderful and powerful American work ethic?  Is that why everybody is medicated and burned out?

I can tell you that too much idle time is horrible, but not being able to ever get away without taking your work with you is miserable as well.  We feel guilty for not carrying the laptop or crackberry.  How does one find that time to "Be Still and Know?"  Spiritually?  Mentally? 

Thoughts?

What happened?

I haven't verified the author of the words, but the message is what I'm interested in.

A Great Quote.

“The fact that we are here today to debate raisingAmerica’s debt limit is a sign of leadership failure. It is a sign that the US Government can not pay its own bills. It is a sign that we now depend on ongoing financial assistance from foreign countries to finance our Government’s reckless fiscal policies. …Increasing America’s debt weakens us domestically and internationally. Leadership means that ‘the buck stops here'. Instead,Washington is shifting the burden of bad choices today onto the backs of our children and Grandchildren.America has a debt problem and a failure of leadership. Americans deserve better.” SENATOR BARACK H. OBAMA, MARCH 2006

Terror Alert

ALERTS TO THREATS IN 2011 EUROPE & ELSEWHERE : BY JOHN CLEESE

The French government announced yesterday that it has raised its terror alert level from "Run" to "Hide."  The only two higher levels in France are "Collaborate" and "Surrender."  The rise was precipitated by a recent fire that destroyed France's white flag factory, effectively paralysing the country's military capability.

The English are feeling the pinch in relation to recent events in Libya and have therefore raised their security level from "Miffed" to "Peeved."  Soon, though, security levels may be raised yet again  to "Irritated" or even "A Bit Cross."  The English have not been "A Bit Cross" since the blitz in 1940 when tea supplies nearly ran out.  Terrorists have been re-categorised from  "Tiresome" to "A Bloody Nuisance."  The last time the  British issued a "Bloody Nuisance" warning level was in 1588, when  threatened by the Spanish Armada.

The Scots have raised  their threat level from "Pissed Off" to "Let's get the Bastards."  They don't have any other levels.   This is the reason they have been used on the front  line of the British army for the last 300 years.  

Italy has increased the alert level from "Shout Loudly and Excitedly" to "Elaborate Military  Posturing." Two more levels remain: "Ineffective Combat Operations" and "Change Sides."

The Germans have  increased their alert state from "Disdainful Arrogance" to "Dress in Uniform and Sing Marching Songs." They also have two  higher levels: "Invade a Neighbour" and "Lose."  

Belgians, on the  other hand, are all on holiday as usual; the only threat they are worried  about is NATO pulling out of Brussels.  

The Spanish are all  excited to see their new submarines ready to deploy. These beautifully designed subs have glass bottoms so the new Spanish navy can get a really good look at the old Spanish navy.   

Australia, meanwhile, has raised its security level from "No worries" to "She'll be alright, Mate."  Two more escalation levels remain: "Crikey!  I think we'll need to cancel the barbie this weekend!" and "The barbie is cancelled."  So far no situation has  ever warranted use of the final escalation level.  

-- John Cleese -  British writer, actor and tall person