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Well the CD is ready, now I just need to buy the labels to print the CD cover. here is a teaser of the disc:

Well today is the deadline I had set and it is the final deadline, if I don’t finish it today I’m gonna wait until next October. As you’ve probably guessed by your lack of commenting recently, there has been delays. What with all the yard work we’ve done and painting, and setting up the web server, and meeting John Waters… I just haven’t had the time to work on the CD. You’ll get the CD at our next Halloween party though, so I hope you all understand.

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24 = 42 backwards, so if you watch it backwards does Jack reveal the question? maybe, but then he would have to kill you!

We were at Lowes this weekend and we bought 200 praying mantis! I never knew they sold them, they also had ladybugs. The ladybugs are for aphids I guess, while the mantis are for almost anything else. We actually just got a cocoon that will hatch into the praying mantis, the ladybugs were already alive and crawling in their little bag. We got the mantis because they were cool, but we can actually use them, something likes to eat the leaves of my papaya tree. Hopefully the mantis will rip the papaya eating fucker’s heads off and has a bug smoothie.

We spent the whole weekend landscaping the yard, unfortunately we’re not done! Yesterday was a nice day, but we spent a lot of time at Home Depot and Lowes getting what we needed for the yard (a rock border, red lava rocks, plants, etc… ). When we got home we started work on it but it got dark quickly. Today was much worse, the wind and rain kept us from working on the yard until later in the afternoon, in between the landscaping we managed to get in a little fishing in the backyard. I’m so tired!

Well we got a DVR last week and of course it dies with the few programs we had recorded still unwatched. So today at 8am the doorbell rang and it was a new DVR that DirecTV sent as a replacement, hopefully this one lasts longer then the first.

Looks like the KKK is having a ‘peaceful’ rally in downtown Orlando tomorrow. I thought about going to watch the million moron march but it just doesn’t seem worth the time (jail time!). as John Belushi said in the Blues Brothers ‘I hate nazis’ or the KKK as the case may be. Hopefully it pours down rain on the bastards.

Well I tried to fix the sprinklers last night but was drag into fishing. When I finally got to look at them it was getting dark but I none the less worked on them. The problem is that zone 2 blows a fuse, usually very soon after starting, though sometimes it stays on a few minutes. I cut several inches off the wire and then rewired them so that if the short was in the area it would hopefully fix it. It didn’t, it blew the fuse as soon as it came on. At least the other 3 zones work, unfortunately the backyard is brown because it’s zone 2, but the new sod is getting greener.

How many generations have to go by before you are no longer considered a ‘Something-American’? I was born in Colombia, South America, but my parents moved to the States when I was a few years old, yet I reject being called a ‘Latin-American’ or Latin or Hispanic. I am an American twice over, I’m South American and, as a naturalized citizen, I am an American. If I wanted a moniker then the best fit would be that I am an American of latin/Colombian descent because I am an American first and I am latin/Colombian second. But that is not the ‘politically correct’ term. Which brings up the question I asked, how many generations have to go by before you are no longer considered a ‘Something-American’? My daughter was born here, yet PC wise she is still considered a ‘Latin-American’, how about when she has children? and their children? The same goes for ‘Asian-Americans’, ‘African-Americans’, and any other ‘something-Americans’? When I was in high school I asked a friend what he liked to be called, African-American, Black, Black American? After he stopped laughing at me he told me he liked to be called Robert!

While thinking up this post I asked a friend/coworker what he thought about being a considered an ‘African-American’ when he’s from Brooklyn and his parents are Haitian. He told me he tries not to put a race in anything that asks and agreed that ‘African-American’ doesn’t really apply to him as he doesn’t know how many generations back would bring his family to Africa. Sure, some will say that he could be considered Haitian-American, but that wouldn’t be apparent just by looks, and how about his children and grandchildren? They won’t lose the Haitian-American and become just American, most likely they would become ‘African-Americans’ because of the color of their skin. I have another friend who has a great … (I don’t know how great) grandfather who is Irish, but he doesn’t consider himself ‘Irish-American’. He does like to say he is X% Irish and that percentage goes up with the amount of Killian’s Reds we’ve consumed. How about ‘Scottish-Americans’ or ‘British-Americans’? How many generations until they are just plain Americans? I would think they become Americans when they lose their accent. Is it when it becomes hard to tell that you are Latin or Asian or ‘African’ or whatever? That would seem racist, not Politically Correct. ‘African-Americans’ would have the hardest time, and seeing as most ‘African-Americans’ are several generations removed from Africa that seems to hold true as any several-generations-removed ‘European-Americans’ are just plain Americans. Also, didn’t life basically begin in Africa? So wouldn’t we all be ‘African-American’? It is fine and good if you want to be considered a ‘Something-American’, if you are proud of your heritage then call yourself what you like, but do you have a right to categorize someone by the way they look because it is ‘Politically Correct’? So is it racist to be ‘politically correct’, to consider ‘White-Americans’ to be just Americans, everyone else is a ‘Something-American’.

Well I’m not politically correct, I am not a ‘Something-American’! I am an American!

Have you seen the Chevy commercial that shows several small cars and an empty trailer passing a Chevy truck of some type (Tahoe maybe?). Does anyone else think the symbolism in it is racist? It shows small little cars with people in it passing the Chevy in the desert, the desert symbolizing Mexico, the ‘large family’ referred to is obvious. Speeding pass the Chevy because of course they are here illegaly. The small cars stand for the poor Latin/Mexicans who can’t afford to buy the ‘family’ vehicle and the empty trailer also referring to the poorness and not having a boat so they have to swim… hence, ‘wetbacks’. Yes, I think it’s racist. I think the Latin community needs to start riots in protest.

We were on our way in to work this morning and were stopped at a light when we both noticed a female cardinal perched on the windowsill of a door on a parked car. It was looking at itself in the side mirror and would jump over to it landing on top of it and would look around confused then jump back to the door and look again to see if the ‘other’ cardinal was still there. it would then jump back and be confused again, it kept this up for the whole time we sat at the light. Did she just want a friend? Was she trying to scare off the rival? Was she a lesbian looking for some carpet licking opportunities? Guess we’ll never really know.

I’ve just learned that Wednesday, March 15th is International eat an animal for PETA day. WOHOO!!! we’re having a BBQ. It will be BYOM. So grab a hunk of meat and head over on the 15th for some animal grilling fun, well if you know where we live that is. Frank J can bring the cats!

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H/T IMAO

We’re getting grass… no not that kind of grass. I mean the landscapers are at our place laying down new sod for the front yard. That should make the yard look much better. this morning the garage door look pretty good after we painted it last night, it should look even better after a second coat. Now we need to deal with the dollar weed in the backyard and landscape the front of the house.

We painted the garage door this evening before we went fishing, it was in sad shape. the previous owner had hung something on the door with tape and had never bothered to remove it. It baked itself on to the door and I couldn’t get it off with goo gone or scraping it. I had to sand most of it off so there was several spots where the paint had been sanded off to the bare metal. I did that about two weeks ago and we had planned on painting last weekend but the weather didn’t cooperate so this was to be the weekend to do it. Of course we couldn’t do it yesterday as I had Little Rachel. So of course the weather was bad today again. We finally managed to get it done, at least the first coat, hopefully we can finish it with a second coat tomorrow.

We went fishing this evening, it was still light when we started but it was dark by the time we finished. I like being able to walk into my backyard and casting a line. I caught 3 fish in the little while we fished. I was grilling a flank steak so I kept having to run up and check on it. We used lures this time instead of live bait, but we did good. I think Rachel caught a fish. I know she caught a lot of weeds.

So I should have known that things would go wrong when R said, ‘oh I’ll get on that log with LR and you take our picture’. We had taken photos of LR already on the log, which spanned a small creekbed that while no water was running though it because it’s the dry season, it was still wet and muddy. We had gone to Jay Blanchard park and were hiking when we had come upon the log. R handed me the camera bag as she set off the way LR had gone to get on the log. I opened the bag and pulled out the camera and was just turning it on when I looked up just as R lost her balance and slid off the log backwards franticly trying to find a purchase to grab on to. Me and LR watched as she fell from the log and landed on her ass in a huge muddy area. ‘Are You OK?’ I asked as she looked at me from her landing area. ‘Did you get that?’ she responded I looked down and saw the camera had just started turning on and that it was not even in the movie mode, the opportunity was gone and no video to show for it. Why didn’t she advise me of her plans to fall and given me the time to have the camera turned on and ready? Luckily she was unhurt and only her ass was covered in mud. Sadly she refused to repeat the fall for me to capture on film! I do however have photos of her pants full of mud and the ass print in the mud!
I have been kind enough to use R instead of Rachel to save her the embarassment of the whole thing.
I’ll give her a 3.5 for technical and a 4.0 for artistry.

So the media and liberals and now Hillary Clinton are upset that the media wasn’t informed about Vice President Cheney’s accident fast enough. Well let’s see:

Vice President Dick Cheney goes quail hunting and accidently shoots a friend in the face.

(worst president ever!) Bill Clinton goes tail hunting and accidently shoots Monica on her dress.

Who informed the media first? Maybe Hillary can field this one?

Actually this is the Carnival of Comedy #42. I am hosting it this week, when Spacemonkey asked for volunteers to step forward, apparently everyone stepped backwards but me, teaches me to pay attention! Anyway, I’ve been told I have a potty mouth (potty hand?), I’ll keep the carnival clean but if you don’t like that kind of talk you might want to refrain from reading the other posts on my site, you have been warned, otherwise have a look around.

Since this is #42 (the answer) grab your towel and pour yourself a pan-galactic gargle blaster and get ready for the funny and some vogon poetry.

The LOL funny

Sorry, My Islamabad! Peace Moonbeam and Scooter take a trip to Pakistan.

Confessions of a Bad Neighbor the Dimmer Switch with a tale of his HOA. This may be funnier if you have a HOA for your neighborhood.

Plain Funny

CheeZOOM!: SpaceMonkey brings us his moneymaking idea, I’ll have some parmesan please.

Hitler Outraged Over Muslim Cartoon: Hitler speaks out over cartoons of him in bed with Anne Frank

Sarcastic Funny

911 Call Center moved to NY Times desk: Pluto’s Dad gives us this funny look at how the media would prefer things to be

The Most Republican Game: Cheney explains the hunting “accident” (potty mouth)

Valentines Day funny

VD Help: Dr. Phat Tony gives advice on what to get your love for Valentine’s Day, I won’t recommend his advice

COPS Valentine’s Day Edition: Cupid’s run in with those who serve and protect

Amusing

I am offended: Wile E. Coyote’s (genius) fatwa against the people of Warner Brothers animation

Carter Kills At King Service: Jimmy Carter delivers an eulogy at Corretta Scott King’s funeral

Nine things I hate about Jimmy Carter: Miriam’s Ideas list of dislikes of Jimmy

Losers Have Opinions Too!: Carter and Gore defend their recent statements

Cartoonists: Publicity Hungry Deities Are Looking for You!: Buddah and other deities who want the publicity

My Nutty New Business: The Bagel-Buttering Blogger: Madame X’s get rich quick scheme?

The Thomas/Cheney Letters: Helen Thomas’ love letters to Dick Cheney (Part 1 of 3)

Political Labels: Striving for Average does just that with these labels defined

On Media Coverage (Parable of the Horse): a disturbing story of a beaten horsey

Painting of Decapitated Bush Head Falls In Love: a portrait love story

Not Quite Vogon Poetry

Definition of a Jackass: Packing peanuts hijinx

Oy vey!: Miriam’s Ideas defines Oy vey!

Lotto Fever: a funny(?) look at the lottery

Funny Links

Funny Money: not really a funny post, but has links to some funny stuff

Throw Mohammed From the Train: the post isn’t funny but has the funny in the comments

More thought provoking than funny

Play 20 Questions with Varos Quasar: Varos asks us earthlings questions

Wow, lots of entries this week, check them all out, you may like some that didn’t appeal to me. I do tend to be brutal in my assessments so don’t be discouraged.

Shameless plugs

Rachel’s Fun Life: My nine year old daughter’s blog. She blogs when we have her and loves the hits and comments so please encourage her.

Pereiraville: Elder Rachel’s blog

Future Carnival Schedule:
February 23th – #43 – Damian G at Conservathink
March 2nd – #44 – Chris at Platypus Society
March 9th- #45 – Bob at Either Orr
March 16th – #46 – Ben at Ben’s Rants

This 42nd Carnival of Comedy! Sponsored, in part, by the fine folks at IMAO, IMAO Podcast, Carnival of Comedy, and The Conservative Cat.

I’ll be hosting the Carnival of Comedy #42 tomorrow.

Future Carnival Schedule:
February 23th – #43 – Damian G at Conservathink
March 2nd – #44 – Chris at Platypus Society
March 9th- #45 – Bob at Either Orr
March 16th – #46 – Ben at Ben’s Rants

I guess that I’m hosting the carnival this week, it’s number 42! I have no idea what I have to do but I think Rachel will be helping me.