Bad Batteries

California Gay’s are lining up to get married.  There seems to be a big rush to the altar now that California pushed thru the new law.  Ellen DeGeneres and Portla De Rossi are going to tie the knot.  Star Trek’s George Takel will marry his partner, Brad Altman. 

40% of Americans say marriage between same-sex couples should be afforded full legal recognition, while 56% say it should not.  4% are unsure.  Just 16% said a political candidate “must share” their views on the issue in order to win their support.

I suppose the judge’s or new-age pastors at these same sex marriages will have problems.  “Which one of you is the male and which is the female?”  And the reply, “Uh, what do you mean?”  I mean, “Which one of you has the menstrual cycle and who doesn’t?”  

“Oh … It must be Bruce, he has a Suzuki.”

A U.S. Border Patrol agent assigned to southern Arizona admitted taking $45,000 in bribes to smuggle more than 3,000 lbs. of marijuana into the country in his government vehicle.  Agent Juan Luis Sanchez of Rio Rico pleaded guilty to several charges and resigned after entering a plea.  He will get 10-15 years in the slammer for his loyalty to the rest of us.  Seems fitting, going to jail with a the best of the best and being a cop on top of that, this is not going to be easy time.

The Vatican says that “reaching into space and other planets” doesn’t mean that there is a lack of understanding concerning God or faith in God.  Upon hearing this, President Bush immediately called NASA in Houston, Texas and told them to program the music “If I Had A Hammer” to the new Mar’s probe. 

There should be a bumper sticker on it somewhere that states, “We Have Screwed Up Our Planet … Now We Are Here For Yours.”

I couldn’t be more under whelmed in my life. Nothing has ever disappointed me more than our multi-billion dollar quest for pictures of rocks. Why are we going to Mars to see cracks in ground? I could have driven to Western Oklahoma and got you these photos for a little over a hundred dollars.

And just for the record our rocks are as red as anyone’s in space, we are known for our red rocks. 

In the end, we will spend hundred’s of millions of dollars (perhaps even billions) on this space exploration thing.  And the government will announce that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline luggage and nothing more.  I don’t think we’re gonna find anything useful between here and Pluto. We kinda know what’s out there.

This one’s full of hot gas. You’ll burst into flame if you land here. This one’s full of red dusty rocks and maybe there’s a face on it. Nothing to do here.  Two to beam up Scotty …. Energize.

Speaking of Energizing?  If you are buying batteries, you could be getting ripped off in a pretty big way.  A reader recently sent me this link on batteries and I thought I would pass it on.  So if your charge isn’t what it used to be (and really, who’s is?) then you might want to check into it. 

From a personal standpoint, it has been so long since I had a decent charge in life, I have forgotten where it is you hook up the jumper cables.  But that is another story altogether.

Now if this doesn’t make you smile, nothing will.  Bad week for shootouts.  After a restaurant owner and a security guard got into an argument in a Boulder Colorado parking lot this week.  They actually shot each other with Taser Guns!  Leaving them both agonized on the ground.  Talk about a bonehead deal, this has to qualify.

I sit back, form a mental picture of that in my mind, and dog-gone it, it just makes me smile.

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