With the Yankees leading 7-5, Rodriguez was on first base and ran hard when Jorge Posada popped up. As he ran near third baseman Howie Clark, Rodriguez said something — `Hah!’ according to Rodriguez, `Mine,” according to Clark. The ball dropped for a run-scoring single.

Wha????

It’s the first float to be denied entry into the Western Days parade.

While some say the decision was made in defense of conservative values, others say it was simply discrimination against gays and lesbians.

The Western Days Committee rejected a gay and lesbian group’s request to participate in the annual Western Days parade that takes place today. The committee said it denied the float entry by the Southern Idaho Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender (GLBT) Community Center because ..............................

(I’m just guessin’ here)…

Close the book.

every time I eat locally grown produce I say mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm, that is SOOO much fresher and yummy ....

Oh! And take that, Al Gore!

oh, c’mon...this “Jesus” is just begging for a caption

Breakfast by Bill…

Saturday Market to mock and heckle hippies with Bill, Tammy and Eric of the same last birth name that are married....

to the vegan restaurant to listen to our pal Pamela play classical guitar…

to the range with B, T and E to christen Bill’s new .45 and the shoot rest of our mini arsenal to purge all the hippie cooties from the previous activities..

dinner and a movie......

Oh, and…
MY BEAUTIFUL BUMPERS HAVE BEEN PURCHASED AND INSTALLED AND THEY ARE SPECTACULAR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Aside but related:
Now it’s toothpaste. And they want to import CHICKEN from China???????????????????????????

And you want to tease me for using salt for deodorant and prefer to know where my food comes from.
Pfffffft

Yannow...I think I’m gonna wait till I get a nasty Rosacea breakout, take a super close-up pic of myself then post it on the internets.

Yeah, that sounds like a great idea!

So back in early 2006 I bought a Charmglow propane grill from Home Despot.  The Charmglow name was bought by Home Despot and is merely a badge on a Brinkmann product.

Back when I bought it I’m impressed by the porcelain coated cast iron cooking grate, cast iron burners and porcelain coated heat deflectors over the burners (aka flavorizer bars).  Decent quality and good design.  Cooks pretty much like a dream.

Well… Sometime this past fall the porcelain coating on the flavorizer bars started to crack and the metal inside started to flake.  (Ditto that for the cast iron burners.) Now if I cook anything fatty on the grill the grease catches in the cracks and flares up - badly.

Mrs. TC and I are having a cook out tomorrow afternoon and I decide to visit the big orange stain on American retail to see what they’ll do for me.  Parts are still under warranty.  Well every jackanape from the marginally literate clown in the grill section to the store manager tells me, “There’s nothing we can do.  It’s a discontinued model.  We don’t carry replacement parts.  Perhaps you can check with the manufacturer.”

ASSHOLES!!! It’s your own frakkin’ brand!

So they suggest I purchase some “universal” replacement parts - for a total of $53.  Nope.

I called Mrs. TC and gave her the rundown on the situation.  She said, “Well… You’ve wanted one of those big Weber charcoal grills.  Just go ahead an buy one.”

WOOHOO!!!  22.5” Weber One Touch Gold, here I come!!!

Not so fast… Ain’t gonna buy it at Home Despot.  OK… Check the Ace Hardware right around the corner.  Nope.  Sold the last one the other day.  Check back on Wednesday.  Drat.  Scoot over to Wal Mart.  Nope.  OK… Lowe’s is just across the way from Wal Mart.  Strike three.

So I’m chatting with the department manager about my dilemma.  I really wanted the Gold (about $130) - not the Silver (about ($85).  At Lowe’s Gene (that was the manager’s name) said, “What if I make you a deal on this display model?”

“Ummm… Like how much?” I respond?

“$70.”

“Sold.”

Thank you, Gene.  Thank you Lowe’s.  F*** you, Home Despot.

Grilling recipes?

Funny jokes?

Any idea why this dude has his dog dressed up funny and his fly is open?

He is the most wanted man in America yet most Americans have never heard his name.

He has been described as the “Fixer” of the Sept. 11 attacks. Several captured al-Qaida operatives have revealed this is the same man who bin Laden has tapped to lead the terror group’s diabolical scheme to detonate nuclear devices simultaneously in several U.S. cities.

Meet Adnan el-Shukrijumah, now believed to be operating within the U.S. - a man the FBI warns is likely armed and dangerous.

“But no one on planet earth is more of a threat to the lives and well-being of every man, woman, and child within the United States than ferret-faced Adnan.”

That’s the dire warning from Paul L. Williams, author of his just released book “The Day of Islam: The Annihilation of America and the Western World.”

According to Williams, Adnan has not only been charged by al-Qaida with orchestrating a nuclear attack - he may have already smuggled nuclear material into America.

The U.S. government is offering a $5 million reward for information leading to his capture.

Williams believes Adnan then enrolled at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, site of a five-megawatt nuclear research reactor. Incredibly, Adnan was able to get a job as a guide at the reactor.

“Bit by bit, the al-Qaida operative allegedly managed to pilfer approximately 180 pounds of nuclear material from the university - enough to build several radiological bombs,” Williams reports.

Adnan disappeared from the school in October 2003, several days before the nuclear material was reported missing. Alerted about Adnan’s plans by a captured high-ranking al-Qaida official, Attorney General John Ashcroft and FBI director Robert Mueller issued a BOLO (be-on-the-lookout) alert for Adnan on March 21, 2004.

In the following months Adnan was spotted in Colorado, Pakistan, Honduras, Belize and Mexico.

Why is it this splodeydope’s images and aliases aren’t put forth in every media outlet on an almost daily basis?

serre·fine (sār-fēn)
n.

A small spring forceps used for approximating the edges of a wound, or for temporarily closing an artery during surgery.

Thank gawd he beat that Canadian kid.

USA! USA! USA!

Meanwhile, in other spelling news…

Close the book.

FBI Director Robert Mueller said this week that his agency busted a smuggling ring organized by the terrorist group Hezbollah that had operatives cross the Mexican border to carry out possible terrorist attacks inside the U.S.

“This was an occasion in which Hezbollah operatives were assisting others with some association with Hezbollah in coming to the United States,” Mueller told a House Appropriations subcommittee during a Tuesday hearing on the FBI’s budget.

In a stunning revelation, Mueller admitted that Hezbollah had succeeded in smuggling some of its operatives across the border, telling the House committee: “That was an organization that we dismantled and identified those persons who had been smuggled in. And they have been addressed as well.”

Hezbollah was responsible for the single most deadly terrorist attack against the U.S. before 9/11 - the Oct. 1983 bombing of the Marine barracks in Beirut, which killed 243 U.S. troops.

In November, an al-Qaida operative who was on the FBI’s terrorist watch list was captured near the Mexican border, housed in a Texas jail and turned over to federal agents, according to Rep. John Culberson, R-Texas.

“A confirmed al-Qaida terrorist, an Iraqi national, was held in the Brewster County jail,” Rep. Culberson told ABC Radio host Sean Hannity. “He was captured in Mexico. This was within the last six weeks. He was turned over to the FBI.”