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Photographer has a problem with Totally Nude Temptations.

Evidently this photographer has a real problem with Totally Nude Tempations (a strip bar in downtown K.C.). So he decides to offer free family portraits for any man who shows up with his family in tow, to be taken in front of the club.

I guess we men are supposed to run like cockroaches exposed to the kitchen light. We're supposed to pretend that we've never been to strip clubs, that we never go to strip clubs, and never will again, right? Wrong.

This guy assumes that all families are as uptight as his. He assumes that everyone out there is of his nanny state mentality - ban everything you don't like. It's Smoking Ban Part II folks. If you don't like what's going on inside a club, BAN IT. Don't just decide you'll never walk in the front door, make sure nobody else can either!

Are the girls forced to work there? Are the guys forced to go there? Are the girls demeaned? The answer ( to anyone who has never known a stripper) is NO. Unless she already has a moral problem with it, in which case she's in the wrong line of work.

I'm tired of the moral majority folks. I'm tired of people dictating what can and can't be done behind closed doors between consenting adults. Let's all grab the wife and kids and run down to get our pics taken! Support your local strippers!

This article says it could

Who knows, but I don't think it can be completely ruled out.

All you people driving these 50,000 pound tank SUVs that need an extension ladder to get in... 50 miles each way to work by yourself, get out your visa card!

A Fox News story tonight lists a constitution party convention as an underdog that just "might have a shot" in the upcoming election. Well I'd like to ask, how do you "have a shot" when you only have ballot access in 20 states? The constitution party has been nearly defunct for years now. However, by contrast, the Libertarian Party (LP) held its conference in Kansas City 3 weeks ago. Fox conveniently ignored that convention.

I find it difficult to understand why the LP convention was ignored but the constitution party was featured. The constitution party doesn't even have ballot access in Kansas, yet the LP has ballot access in both KS and MO. Furthermore, the LP expects to have access in 48 states again this election cycle, just as it did in the last.

The LP convention featured a debate including former U.S. Senator Mike Gravel, former CNBC Co-anchor, best selling author, self made millionaire and "King of Vegas", Wayne Allyn Root. To top that off, former US House Representative Bob Barr announced his consideration for a run for US President at the convention. Barr is best known for leading the impeachment trials against Bill Clinton. He is currently polling nationwide at 7%, which is huge for a 3rd party candidate.

The LP is the only viable 3rd party in the United States. It is the largest 3rd party, and the fastest growing. But for some reason, it's not newsworthy compared to a party that apparently has nominated a pastor that nobody has ever heard of.

CNN showed up and ran the story nation wide, but for some reason Fox didn't show.

Why?

Every year when "Administrative Assistant" day rolls around, we shower ours with flowers, gifts, and praise. We take up a collection, we buy a card, we all sign it and woo these people into bliss. But I have a question about this practice: WHY?

WHY should I give you a card, give you flowers, do cartwheels and seranade ANYONE just for doing his or her job? We all work for a living. Most of us do the best we can. We all realize that there are both bad and good parts of our job. At some point everyone gets dumped on by someone as part of his or her job description. GET OVER IT.

When is truck driver's day? Or radio disclaimer reader guy's day? Or attorney's day? Or parking lot attendant's day?

This is ridiculous. it's all part of the "everyone gets a ribbon, because everyone is a winner" mentality that the bleeding heart insanity is perpetuating.

Do you job, collect your paycheck, be proud of what you do. You don't need cheerleaders just because you're doing what's expected of you. 

Red light cameras - law enforcement or profit center?

It seems the mainstream media has finally caught on to what many of us have known for some time: the cameras going up at intersections everywhere in the U.S. are more about PROFIT and less about SAFETY.

Although a longer yellow light means a safer intersection, several cities have been caught actually shortening the time of the yellow light after installing cameras in a blatant effort to increase revenue.

Cha CHING....

Once again, his holiness Barak Obama has shown his true colors. This time, it may be a bit more difficult to smooth over since race isn't involved. These comments come from a man who has really never spent much time anywhere other than big government and big insttituions. They show his true view of small town America, and the good people who live there.

Recently the democratic savior said these words during a fund raiser in illionois:

"You go into these small towns in Pennsylvania and, like a lot of small towns in the Midwest, the jobs have been gone now for 25 years and nothing's replaced them," Obama was quoted as saying by the Huffington Post.

"And it's not surprising then they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations," he said.

How condescending. Yes, many Americans (myself included) cling to guns and the American way of life. It's called self reliance and rugged individualism. It's called mistrust of big government and socialist policies. But I suppose there isn't much room for that Barak's utopian society where people are stripped of their guns and right to self defense, turn to radical (and racist) religions such as his own, and sign away most of thier paychecks to him and his Robin Hood government.

And, predictably, his co-phoney Hillary opportunistically follwed up with John Cougar's (Mellanchamp, whatever his name is this week) song, "Small Town" at her next fund raiser. I thought she was from New York? Or was it Arkansas? Oh, wait... hang on, she speaks with a Southern Accent. Oh ya, that's only when she's in the South.

Hillary has since gone on record as "suppotring hunter's rights". This of course is a perfect demonstration of her lack of understanding of the 2nd Amendment of the U.S. Constitution (assuming that's what she's getting at) and her revisionist history. Evidently, her reading of the 2nd amendment is, "A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state; the right of the people to hunt and eat deer shall not be infringed".

Where do we come up with these jokers?

While playing at a fundraiser for Hillary Clinton, Elton John called the U.S. a misogynistic country. He went on to say that he is shocked that America has not yet produced a female president

Now, if you don't know what misogynistic means, don't feel bad; I had no idea either. Wikipedia says this:

Misogyny (GA , RP ) is hatred or strong prejudice against women. The word comes from the Greek words µ?s?? (misos, "hatred")

Ok, now pay attention class. Sir Elton John may be a knight in his own country, but he is NOTHING here as far as I'm concerned, other than another leftist celebrity spouting off.. I personally don't care what he thinks of our politics. He has come to this country as a guest and chosen to insult us, and it has exposed his ignorance. But his question deserves an answer.

We haven't produced a female president because we haven't had a good female presidential CANDIDATE. Hillary is not only a bad choice, but I suspect that Elton is not supporting her just because she's female (and even if he was that's an obvious problem). No, he supports her because she is a fellow leftist, who is committed to following his European model of socialism.

So I say to Elton John, if you want us to elect a woman for president, how about you FIND US ONE that is viable. Or, better yet, if you don't like it, GO HOME.

There' s a reason why 10,000 bikers walked out of a stadium in Miluakee when Sir John showed up for Harley Davidson's 100th anneversary. This attitude probably has something to do with it.

Missouri legislators are faced with a dilemma: do they vote for freedom, or do they succumb to anecdotal evidence, emotional testimony, and political expediency. These lawmakers have a choice to follow a tyranny of the majority or take a stand for individual liberty.

Regardless of whether or not you ride, regardless of whether or not you wear a piece of plastic on your head, the choice is yours. Every human being is born with a sovereign right to decide how much risk he is willing to accept in his daily life.

Studies show that head injuries are quite common in automobile accidents. In fact some say they are more common than in motorcycle accidents. But we don't ask car drivers to wear helmets. Studies also show that over 75% of the time, the car driver is at fault in a car on motorcycle collision. Yet the self righteous non-riding crowd insists that WE bikers are the problem because we won't wear this worthless piece of plastic on our heads, while they are killing us at a staggering rate. They tell US to be careful when it is THEY who should be careful.

People need to wake up. Motorcycles are dangerous. Helmets are symbolic; their efficacy has never been conclusively proven. Ask any insurance company whether or not their underwriting or actuarial department wants to know if an applicant on an individual policy wears a helmet on his bike or not. They don't. And that's because it's actuarially insignficant.

Ask those same people whether or not they're concerned with your alcohol usage, obesity, smoking, whether or not you are a private pilot, scuba diver, or sky diver. Odds are they will say YES.

So if you are obese, please do not tell me I as a biker am costing you money because I don't wear a helmet. If you are a car driver who does not wear a helmet, please do not expose your hypocrisy by self righteously railing on me for my choice. And regardless of whether or not you agree on any of the monetary arguments I've listed, IT'S MY CHOICE.  And besides, we have a right to life, LIBERTY, and the PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS. I still have yet to find a clause in the declaration of independence or the US constitution that guarantees us a right to cheap insurance. That is a problem of socialism, not freedom.

It's time we let those who ride decide. The tyranny of the majority has prevailed for far too long. Please call your MO state legislators and explain the concept of FREEDOM to them. This is still the United States of America, and we can turn back the tide of the nanny state if we are willing to fight it.

Why is it that when the government fails in its duties, the solution is always more government?

President Bush, true to form, is now touting a plan for more federal government regulation of the financial industry. This is in response to the sub-prime mortgage crisis, which the U.S. Federal Reserve allowed to happen in the first place.

Since the Fed is charged with regulating banks and lending practices, we can assign part of the blame to it. In recent years, new software has allowed lenders and investors to create all sorts of exotic financial instruments. These instruments are very complex and frequently very risky - and almost nobody understands them all. But the Fed allowed them to be used with little question - all the while painting a rosy picture of the economy and a bright future.

Consumer greed, coupled with investors desire for big and quick profits created this problem. These consumers and investors should suffer the consequences of their poor choices rather than the reassurance that their indiscretions really are not that big of a deal. The Fed should have recognized this condition and acted upon it, but instead continued to wear a smiley face.

But we no longer operate that way in this country. The nanny state always comes to the rescue, and, regardless of the party (Republican or Democrat) big government is the solution. The fed has already turned on the money pump to try to ease the short term pain, and furthermore took the historical step of backing a bailout of an investment bank.

All this happened on the Federal Government's watch. Why should we give them even more power when they won't even enforce the laws they have?

Everyone has them: annoying co-workers.

If you are on this blog during the day, odds are you have an office job. And, if you have an office job, odds are you're stuck in a 5 x 9 padded cell like mine, also known as a "cube".

Now we all know cubes are a joke really. The only privacy they afford is possibly shielding you just enough for just long enough to pick your nose once or twice a day. What they do NOT do is shield you from noises, smells, and in some cases sights you can never erase from your memory no matter how much you drink.

So I'm going to give you my list of most annoying co-worker habits, and I'd like to have you all post yours.

1. Eating, sucking ice, crunching ice loudly

2. Gossiping on personal phone calls (all day)

3. Annoying cell phone ring tones that go off constantly

4. Loud arguments about the most obscure aspect of some technical detail that nobody else cares about

5. Snapping, humming, and singing along with the radio.

OK, there's a start. What's your hell like?

Well it's no surprise. According to trustees for the governments two largest entitlement programs, medicare and social security, both programs face "enormous challenges". This came out yesterday, and the report has declared Medicare's problems in particular to be "severe".

In fact, the report says this is the year that the fund will begin paying out more than it takes in. Now it doesn't take a PhD in mathematics to figure out that this means the fund is rapidly going broke. In fact, the trustees say Medicare will be completely broke by 2019.

Social security is projected to begin paying out more than it receives starting in the year 2017. At that point, the federal government will be forced to start paying back the billions it has borrowed from the trust fund, and/or significantly raise taxes.

If you're self employed, you're paying almost 15% into these two programs. If not, you're paying about 7.5%, and your employer is paying about 7.5% (as far as I'm cocnerned I'm paying them both).

These bloated and wasteful programs are rampant with fraud and abuse. Seminars are conducted teaching doctors how to bilk the system and patients how to dump their assets in order to fall below the poverty line. Like all government programs, their gravitational pull is probably only exceeded by a black hole. They continue to grow and grow as the sheep line up at the trough.

I personally have paid over $100,000.00 into these programs and don't expect to ever see a dime of it back. And if you get excited every time you get your statement in the mail, keep in mind that inflation (on average, according to conservative estimates) cuts the value of money in half about every 15 years. So, if you are like me and about 30 years away from retiring, figure on the value of your monthly payment being about 25% of today's dollars.

And that's assuming the fed doesn't continue to turn on the money factory in an effort to hide our true problems.

Socialism doesn't work people. And despite all this, there are still cries for socialized medicine?

Well here we are. 5 Years into an unwinnable war, which was based on faulty intelligence at the least, or a conspiracy at the most, and we've hit the 4,000 mark of killed in action.

Of course this doesn't count the wonded in action, the sufferers of PTSD, the broken families, nor does it count the cost.

The Iraq war is the first war we've ever waged on solely credit. Our federal debt is now at almost $9 trillion. The Chineese own $1 trillion of that debt. Their currency is of course pegged to ours, which means (at the moment) they have a vested interest in keeping us afloat.

But what if the Chineese grow weary of our war with Iraq? What if they decide the Euro is a better value than the dollar?

In a matter of 10 years or so, the number of cars in China will begin to exceed the number of cars in the US. Competition for oil will become even more fierce. China will be looking for an advantage of course - and unhooking their currency from ours might just give them that advantage.

When that happens, what will happen to our precious dollar? What if the chineese decide to dump their t-bills? Over 10% of our debt will begin to cost us signficantly more. I'm not trying to undermine the cost of the Iraq war in terms of real lives lost, but - seriously - stop and think. We're borrowing the money for the war from the Chineese, and pledging our children as collateral.

When was the last time you asked your grandchild permission to borrow his money for a war half way around the world?

No problem. The fed will just turn on the money pump and everything will be fine. Continue to sleep, John. Q. Public. Watch your DVDs, spend your stimulous package, flip through your 4,000 channels of cable. It just your kids and grand kids you're screwing, that's all. 

And then there's the Saudis......

Tick, toc, tick, toc...

The United States, and therefore the rest of the world, is sitting on a financial time bomb. The cracks and tremors in our economy are a small foreshadowing of what's to come. As we go about our daily lives of debt driven hyper consumption, the budget deficit grows almost every year, unfunded obligations such as social security and medicaire are project to go broke in our lifetimes, and the federal debt is wildly out of control.

Now we have seen the 5th largest commercial bank in the United States in virtual failure. Stock values of Bear Stearns dropped from over $80.00/share to just $2.00/share in only 4 days. This is a bank that has survived numerous recessions as well as the Great Depression. Today it is only in existence because the Fed has teamed up with a rival bank, JP Morgan, to bail it out.

So we see once again the Fed is turning on the money pump. It's magic, isn't it? Nobody feels any pain! The money just magically appears and the market hits a little bump in the road, but hey, my 401(k) didn't dip too much, so who cares, right?

Wrong. We're going to have to pay the piper sooner or later. Someone has taken a huge hit here. But who?

The great economist Milton Friedman likened the monetary policy of the Federal Resrve to an alcoholic's dilema: quit now and have better consequences later but pain in the short term, or drink more to get rid of that last hangover, but pay a very heavy price on the long haul.

Guess who's gonnay pay that price? Our kids, and their kids. Congratulations, John Q. Public, you've enslaved future generations to a crushing debt.

"Mukasey- executing 9/11 suspects will make them martyrs".

Who cares?