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California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger is trying to push through a new tax that will fund a global warming research committee to determine the effects “global warming” is having on the state of California. First off I do believe our climate is changing, that obvious. However I do NOT believe it is do to unnatural occurrences brought on by humans. The thing that really pisses me off is I have NO CHOICE whether I want to contribute to this. Something I am adamantly against I have to help fund.

The Governator promised Californians he was going to pull us out of all the debt and get us back in the black. Since the all he’s done is build a paycheck base for his buddies that need a job or an additional income. That’s what this is too, we don’t need it.

The earth has had natural global cooling and global warming cycles before. In case anyone forgets the earth was once covered in ice. There were no artificial pollutants that caused that. The as we well know the ice melted. Imagine that!! How did that happen? Who the hell do we blame for that? The cavemen and their damn fires? Damn them for wanting to live.

After the ice age, there were a number of periods where the temperature was higher than those we see today. The warmest was probably the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum (PETM), which hit it’s highest temperature about 55 million years ago. Global temperatures during this event may have warmed by 41?F to 46.4?f within a few thousand years, with the Arctic Ocean reaching a subtropical 73?F.

Next we have to also realize that earth is not the only planet that is experiencing or has Read the rest of this entry »

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Below is an article by Any Bloch and was posted on Full Tilt Poker’s Website. There’s always so much discussion from people about playing only premium hands that I thought this would be a good article to counter the nits and set miners out there. Stop thinking you’re better than every one else, there may be a reason for the hands we play.

Personally I play whatever feels good at the time, literally I do. I have been called every name you could imagine but 90% of the time I have good reason for playing an off hand. The other 10% is just donkey play, yes I said it, I am a donkey.

Loosening Up Before the Flop ? Part 1
Andy Bloch
March 20th, 2008
Knowing what to do and when to do it is what separates those who just play in tournaments from those who make final tables. This is especially true in No-Limit Hold ?em, where the first decisions you?re faced with are what hands you should play and when you should play them. As the blinds get bigger and antes come in to play, these decisions become even more crucial. In these situations, one of the most critical errors that people make is not varying their pre-flop strategy enough.

While many pros advocate playing a tight, aggressive game Read the rest of this entry »

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By KAREN MATTHEWS, Associated Press Writer A construction worker?s bid to curse the New York Yankees by planting a Boston Red Sox jersey in their new stadium was foiled Sunday when the home team removed the offending shirt from its burial spot.

After locating the shirt in a service corridor behind what will be a restaurant in the new Yankee Stadium, construction workers jackhammered through the concrete Sunday and pulled it out.

The team said it learned that a Sox-rooting construction worker had buried a shirt in the new Bronx stadium, which will open next year across the street from the current ballpark, from a report in the New York Post on Friday.

Yankees President Randy Levine said team officials at first considered leaving the shirt where it was.

?The first thought was, you know, it?s never a good thing to be buried in cement when you?re in New York,? Levine said. ?But then we decided, why reward somebody who had really bad motives and was trying to do a really bad thing??

On Saturday, construction workers who remembered the employee, Gino Castignoli, phoned in tips about the shirt?s location. Read the rest of this entry »

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Just thought I’d share a couple pictures I took of Stevie Ray Vaughan back in (I think) 1983. To me Stevie is the best guitarist the world has ever seen or heard. His death on August 27th 1990 was a HUGE loss to the music community.

With his first “official” album being Texas Flood released in 1984 that makes him eligible for the Rock-n-Roll Hoall Of Fame in 2008 His sound was like that of no other and virtually anyone that has tried to mimic it has failed and will continue to do so for years to come. It wasn’t only the thickness of his strings, guitar, pickups etc, that gave him the tone he produced. It’s first and foremost his soul.

The 2nd time I witnessed the genius was in 1981 at Fitzgerald’s in Houston, TX I sat right in front of him and he borrowed my Bic Lighter to use a slide. Wish I had the fore site of what he would come to mean to me. Today I’d have that lighter on display here at home. At this same show he got so lost in whatever song was being played that he had to be tapped on the shoulder by band mate Tommy Shannon and brought back into reality. Back then I don’t believe it was drugs that spaced him out, it was something else magical from within his soul.

The following was stolen from www.legacyrecordings.com/

With his astonishingly accomplished guitar playing, Stevie Ray Vaughan ignited the blues revival of the ’80s. Vaughan drew equally from bluesmen like Albert King, Otis Rush, and Muddy Waters and rock & roll players like Jimi Hendrix and Lonnie Mack, as well as the stray jazz guitarist like Kenny Burrell, developing a uniquely eclectic and fiery style that sounded like no other guitarist, regardless of genre. Vaughan bridged the gap between blues and rock like no other artist had since the late ’60s. For the next seven years, Stevie Ray was the leading light in American blues, consistently selling out concerts while his albums regularly went gold. His tragic death in 1990 only emphasized his influence in blues and American rock & roll.

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As for this site it’s been boring for a while, basically just a picture of Keith Richards kissing his guitar and a cheesy Waterpup banner.

My son, my pride and joy Tyler plays for the Los Angeles Jr. Kings and now most of my nights and/or weekends are spent at a hockey rink.

He’s also on his high school roller hockey and surf team. His grades are ok and he’s a great kid, picks good friends, plays WAY to much Xbox360 and doesn’t get into trouble. I love him more than anything. Dude is just a little taller than I am and he’s only 16, but I can still beat him up…….lol!!

I just sold a coffee house for a huge loss. Over the past three years I lost my rear end on it to the tune of $100 a day. That equates to $3000 a month. Don’t get me wrong with the exception of the daily loss I did enjoy it. My last two employees were more than I could ever ask for when it comes to a coffee house gig. Stephanie and Fara you two made the last year tolerable. If it weren’t for the dedication you both showed I would have closed up a long time ago. Maybe someday I’ll give it another shot in a better location. We’ll see.

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