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Tuesday Night Grab Bag O’ Thoughts

Post author By Chris M. Day
Post date June 24, 2008
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It’s the most anticipated blog entry of the week. This is how we roll on a Tuesday night in Homestead Florida !

1. George Carlin died over the weekend at the age of 71. While I didn’t agree with virtually all of his political viewpoints (as he identified them in public) he was still one of the greatest and funniest comedians in American history as far as I’m concerned. I will miss his LIVE HBO specials every few years.

2. I ate Chinese Food for Lunch today. I picked it up from Shanghai & Tokyo in Homestead’s Waterstone Plaza. I’m a semi-regular there. They usually give me two fortune cookies to go along with my ‘Lunch Special’. Later tonight I’ll have your special ‘double feature’ edition of ‘The Fortune Cookie Message Of The Week Club’. Don’t miss it !

3. Earlier today I went to annualcreditreport.com and I printed out three full and complete credit reports for me from Equifax, Experian, and TransUnion. annualcreditreport.com is the only site that is legally able to give you free copies of your credit report from all three of those credit bureau sites. I did all of this in less than 45 minutes this morning, and I got over 30 pages of important credit information spanning virtually my entire adult life.

4. I thrive in a hot and humid environment (such as Homestead). I could not live happily ever after in a cold and dry environment – or a hot and dry environment for that matter. It’s hotter in San Antonio (where I’ll be next week) than it is here in Homestead, but it’s less humid over there than it is over here. I’d rather have the extra humidity rather than the higher temperatures.

5. I’ve become a semi-regular of the new Starbucks in Homestead. The people that work there are now starting to recognize me and my car. So far I have received consistent great service from them – inside as well as via their drive-thru. Let’s hope that it stays that way.

6. The following 5 things kept me preoccupied for 7 hours yesterday at my Saturn dealership in Cutler Bay:
a. My iPod Shuffle
b. The latest edition of ‘Entertainment Weekly‘ (magazine)
c. The Miami Herald (newspaper)
d. TV Guide Crosswords & Sudokus
e. Life Pointe Church follow-up spreadsheet (printed out)

7. Some people have a chronic addiction to their cell phone. They just can’t stop calling people all over the free nation and sharing their private lives in public via their loud cell phone conversations. No wonder identity theft exists. Remember the good old days when telephone conversations were done in private inside the home ?

8. Homestead Trivia – How many miles apart are Speedway Boulevard (SW 137TH Avenue) and Krome Avenue (SW 177TH Avenue) ? The answer – exactly 4.0 miles. In Miami-Dade County each numbered avenue is exactly 0.1 miles apart to the grid. 40 avenues apart = 4.0 miles. It’s that simple my friends !

9. Me, My Brother, His Wife, & Fuddruckers – That’s the plan for Lunch as soon as I touch down in the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex this Saturday. After that we will all go and play a round of minature golf. I totally dig that plan !

10. Next week your ‘Tuesday Night Grab Bag O’ Thoughts’ will come to you LIVE from the River Walk in San Antonio. I’m also planning at least a couple of special editions of ‘The Major’s Walk-A-Thon’. You’re not gonna wanna miss it my friends.

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WELCOME to a fresh new week here on the big blog. TODAY – Monday June 23RD 2008 – turned out to be the busiest Monday in the history of this blog. You crazy cats shattered the previous Monday record (set back in April) by a mind-boggling 28.7%, and you did that without me. I didn’t even touch my blog until after the day had officially ended (at 8 PM EDT / 12 AM UTC).

Last week we enjoyed our busiest Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday EVER, and it was also our busiest (Monday to Sunday) week EVER by a whopping 15.5%. Keep on doing your thing on here – reading and commenting. It’s all part of the overall concept of blogging. You are all bloggers, and together we are keeping in touch with each other when we can’t be right next to each other physically. It’s like a ministry of fellowship on here. This is how we take our faith public via modern electronic means in the 21ST Century.

I was at my Saturn dealership in Cutler Bay for nearly 7 hours today waiting on my car as it was getting nearly $1,100 worth of repair work done. Luckily I didn’t pay that much (because there were exactly 3 days remaining with the original 5-year extended warranty for the car). During those 7 hours I scribbled down a few rough notes in preparation for tomorrow’s ‘Tuesday Night Grab Bag O’ Thoughts’. It’s the most spontaneous blog entry of the entire week, and you’re not gonna believe some of my thoughts tomorrow. It’s what everyone will be talking about around the salad bar at Ruby Tuesday on Wednesday. Don’t you dare miss it. You won’t regret it pal.

Later this week you may not want to use your cell phone ever again once you see the most SHOCKING ‘Thursday Night Internet Hoax Hall-Of-Shame’ to date ! This is the one that could really frighten you to bits and make you tremble in fear, or it could all be an Internet HOAX ! You decide – Thursday night.

So that’s what I’ve got for you tonight – an obvious ‘Blatant Promotion’ of this blog and all of you who are an important part of it. Without you this wouldn’t be. I’ll catch you all back here tomorrow – same time – same channel. Have a great evening everyone ! Good Night Friends. Good Night Gricelda.

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THANK YOU fellow bloggers for making this the biggest Thursday EVER in our history (shattering the previous best Thursday EVER by nearly 5% in total views). Two days ago we enjoyed our biggest Tuesday EVER !

OK friends tomorrow night is the night where everything will be all right. It’s Friday night, so that only means one thing here on the big blog. It’s another exciting edition of the ‘Friday Night Blogroll Review’. It’s where I give back to my fellow bloggers, and highlight my favourite blog entries of this past week from my favourite bloggers in the blogosphere. You won’t want to miss it pal !

Then be sure to stick around for an all-new ‘Saturday Morning Shenanigans’. I’m planning a MASSIVE breakfast somewhere ! 😀

Until we hang out again here on the big blog (or LIVE and in-person) remember this:

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Thursday Night Internet Hoax Hall-Of-Shame

Post author By Chris M. Day
Post date June 12, 2008

It’s time for the 20TH edition of the continuing tradition that is – the ‘Thursday Night Internet Hoax Hall-Of-Shame’. I don’t have any cute pictures of MASSIVE cats or dogs that don’t really exist, or fake tornadoes near oil rigs. This one is a total gas – literally. This is the one that everyone will be talking about around the copy machine tomorrow morning:

Subject: FW: Where to buy American Gasoline

WHERE TO BUY AMERICAN GASOLINE. THIS IS VERY IMPORTANT TO KNOW. READ ON.

Gas rationing in the 70’s worked even though we grumbled about it.

It might even have been good for us !

Are you aware that the Saudis are boycotting American products ? In addition, they are gouging us on oil prices. Shouldn’t we return the favor ? Can’t we take control of our own destiny and let these giant oil importers know who REALLY generates their profits, their livings ? How about leaving American Dollars in America and reduce the import/export deficit ? An appealing remedy might be to boycott their GAS.

Every time you fill up your car you can avoid putting more money into the coffers of Saudi Arabia. Just purchase gas from companies that don’t import their oil from the Saudis.

Nothing is more frustrating than the feeling that every time I fill up my tank, I’m sending my money to people who I get the impression want me, my family and my friends dead.

The following gas companies import Middle Eastern oil:

Shell…………………………………205,742,000 barrels
Chevron/Texaco…………………144,332,000 barrels
Exxon/Mobil………………………130,082,000 barrels
Marathon/Speedway……………117,740,000 barrels
Amoco……………………………….62,231,000 barrels

And CITGO oil is imported from Venezuela by Dictator Hugo Chavez who hates America and openly avows our economic destruction ! (We pay Chavez’s regime nearly $10 Billion per year in oil revenues !)

The U.S. currently imports 5,517,000 barrels of crude oil per day from OPEC. If you do the math at $100 per barrel, that’s over $550 million PER DAY ($200 BILLION per year !) handed over to OPEC, many of whose members are our confirmed enemies!!!!! It won’t stop here – oil prices could go to $200 a barrel or higher if we keep buying their product.

Here are some large companies that do not import Middle Eastern oil:

Sunoco……………………….0 barrels
Conoco……………………….0 barrels
Sinclair……………………….0 barrels
BP/Phillips…………………..0 barrels
Hess. ………………………..0 barrels
ARC0…………………………0 barrels
Maverick…………………….0 barrels
Flying J. ……………………..0 barrels
Valero………………………..0 barrels
Murphy Oil USA* …………..0 Sold at Wal-Mart, gas is from South Arkansas and fully USA owned and produced. Not only that but they give scholarships to all children in their town who finish high school and are legal US citizens.

All of this information is available from the U.S. Department of Energy and each company is required to state where they get their oil and how much they are importing.

But to have a real impact, we need to reach literally millions of gas buyers. With the help of the internet, it’s really simple to do …

Numerous variants of this Internet hoax have been widely circulating since December 2001. As you’ve already figured out there is very little factual information within this E-Mail.

Read more about it here and here, and when you receive an obvious Internet hoax via your E-Mail Inbox don’t waste your time with it. Hit that {DELETE} key, and be done with it right then and there !