June 27, 2010

Redneck Hanging Basket

Crazy Emails for June 27, 2010










Best New Bumper Sticker of 2010

Amish Christmas Lights

I know it's not the season, but these are amazing!

Scroll down to see the Amish Christmas lights.



You know very well that the Amish don't use electricity.

Now get back to work!

Oh Shoot Moments








Mobiles For Sale

Hi,

I'm selling 2 mobiles, if anyone is interested let me know, otherwise I'll list them on E-Bay

1) Almost new Nokia with camera (4.1 mega pixels)
2) Older model Motorola with camera and vibrating alert


Have a look at the below picture of the phones and let me know if you're interested.

Really good value!


More New BP Toons





HOW TO SELL TOOTHBRUSHES

Little Johnny understands the program and will do well as a capitalist.

The kids filed back into class Monday morning. They were very excited. Their weekend assignment was to sell something, then give a talk on productive salesmanship.

Little Sally led off: "I sold girl scout cookies and I made $30," she said proudly, "My sales approach was to appeal to the customer's civil spirit and I credit that approach for my obvious success."

"Very good," said the teacher.

Little Jenny was next:

"I sold magazines," she said, "I made $45 and I explained to everyone that magazines would keep them up on current events."

"Very good, Jenny," said the teacher..

Eventually, it was Little Johnny's turn.

The teacher held her breath ...

Little Johnny walked to the front of the classroom and dumped a box full of cash on the teacher's desk. "$2,467," he said.

"$2,467!" cried the teacher, "What in the world were you selling?"

"Toothbrushes," said Little Johnny.

"Toothbrushes!" echoed the teacher, "How could you possibly sell enough tooth brushes to make that much money?"

"I found the busiest corner in town," said Little Johnny, "I set up a Dip & Chip stand and gave everybody who walked by a free sample."

They all said the same thing, "Hey, this tastes like dog shit!"

Then I would say,"It is dog shit. Wanna buy a toothbrush?"

"I used the governmental approach of giving you something shitty for free, and then making you pay to get the taste out of your mouth."

Water Powered Car

They just announced that they finally have an auto that will run on water.

Of course it will only run on the water from the gulf..

Got an Old Plane?

Pay attention, airlines. Here is a way to recap some of those losses. Imagine having a Boeing 727 as a home. The plane set Joanne Ussary back $2,000.00, cost $4,000.00 to move, and $24,000.00 to renovate. That's not bad for a $30,000.00 investment. The stairs open with a garage door remote, and one of the bathrooms is still intact. And let's not forget the personal Jacuzzi in the cockpit. Sweet . . . The Boeing home is featured as part of a collection of creative conversions.

I want it . . . And the view!
 
Anyone have an old 727 they don't want?
 
 







Department of Work and Pensions

Dennis Penberthy, an elderly Cornish farmer, received a letter from the Department for Work & Pensions, stating that they suspected he was not paying his employees enough and they would send an inspector to interview them.

On the appointed day, the inspector turned up.

"Tell me about your staff," he asked Penberthy.

"Well," said Penberthy, "there's the farm hand. I pay him £240 a week, and he has a free cottage.

Then there's the housekeeper. She gets £190 a week, along with free board and lodging.

There's also the half-wit. He works a 16 hour day, does 90% of the work, earns about £25 a week, along with a bottle of gin every week, and, occasionally, gets to sleep with my wife."

"That's who I want to talk to," said the inspector, "the half-wit."

"That'll be me then," said Penberthy.

Shortarmguy Diary for June 27, 2010


June 27, 2010

Nice Email from Yokohama

I received this email in response to this post:

http://shortarmguy.blogspot.com/2010/06/66-years-later.html



Dear Mr. Swank,

A little constructive help! Your pictures of Hiroshima look very similar to what I see in Yokohama. Attached is a Google shot of one of the same buildings.

Great website; I enjoy it a lot.

Allen Huies

Tamaplaza, Yokohama, Japan

P.S. Yokohama was not nuked because the destruction was so massive during the conventional (napalm) bombing that they would not be able to see the destructive power of the A-bomb. Hiroshima and Nagasaki were not harmed much during the war. Tokyo and Yokohama were in the same condition after the war as Hiroshima and Nagasaki except for the radiation. The two former were firebombed in March 1945 so although your website makes prefect sense, almost no one knows how massive the destruction of Tokyo and Yokohama was.


Yokohama 2010



Tokyo after the fire bombing- 1945

Parkland Memorial Hospital

Just One Hospital



Unbelievable!


Parkland Memorial Hospital in Dallas, Texas is a fairly famous institution and for a variety of reasons:


1. John F. Kennedy died there in 1963;


2. Lee Harvey Oswald died there shortly after;


3. Jack Ruby, who killed Oswald, died there a few years later.


On the flip side, Parkland is also home to the second busiest maternity ward in the country with almost 16,000 new babies arriving each year. (That's almost 44 per day-every day)!


A recent patient survey indicated that 70 percent of the women who gave birth at Parkland in the first three months of 2006 were illegal immigrants. That's 11,200 anchor babies born every year just in Dallas!!!


According to the article, the hospital spent $70.7 million delivering 15,938 babies in 2004 but managed to end up with almost $8 million dollars in surplus funding. Medicaid kicked in $34.5 million, Dallas County taxpayers kicked in $31.3 million and the feds tossed in another $9.5 million.


The average patient in Parkland in maternity wards is 25 years old, married and giving birth to her second child. She is also an illegal immigrant. By law, pregnant women cannot be denied medical care based on their immigration status or ability to pay.


OK, fine. That doesn't mean they should receive better care than everyday, middle-class American citizens. But at Parkland Hospital, they do. " Parkland Memorial Hospital has nine prenatal clinics. NINE!!!


The Dallas Morning News article followed a Hispanic woman who was a patient at one of the clinics and pregnant with her third child-her previous two were also born at Parkland. Her first two deliveries were free and the Mexican native was grateful because it would have cost $200 to have them in Mexico. This time, the hospital wants her to pay $10 per visit and $100 for the delivery but she was unsure if she could come up with the money. Not that it matters, the hospital won't turn her away. (I wonder why they even bother asking at this point.)


"How long has this been going on? What are the long-term effects?


Well, another subject of the article was born at Parkland in 1986 shortly after her mother entered the US illegally - now she is having her own child there as well. (That's right; she's technically a US citizen.)


These women receive free prenatal care including medication, nutrition, birthing classes and child care classes. They also get freebies such as car seats, bottles, diapers and formula.


Most of these things are available to American citizens as well, but only for low-income applicants, and even then, the red tape involved is almost insurmountable.


Because these women are illegal immigrants, they do not have to provide any sort of legitimate identification - no proof of income. An American citizen would have to provide a social security number which would reveal their annual income - an illegal immigrant need only claim to be poor and the hospital must take them at their word.


Parkland Hospital offers indigent care to Dallas County residents who earn less than $40,000 per year. (They also have to prove they did not refuse health coverage at their current job. Yeah, the 'free' care is not so easy for Americans.)


There are about 140 patients who received roughly $4 million dollars for un-reimbursed medical care. As it turns out, they did not qualify for free treatment because they resided outside of Dallas County so the hospital is going to sue them! Illegal's get it all free! But U.S. citizens who live outside of Dallas County get sued! How stupid is this?


As if that isn't annoying enough, the illegal immigrant patients are actually complaining about hospital staff not speaking Spanish. In this AP story, the author speaks with a woman who is upset she had to translate comments from the hospital staff into Spanish for her husband. The doctor was trying to explain the situation to the family and the mother was forced to translate for her husband who only spoke Spanish. This was apparently a great injustice to her.


In an attempt to create a Spanish-speaking staff, Parkland Hospital is now providing incentives in the form of extra pay for applicants who speak Spanish. Additionally, medical students at the University of Texas Southwestern for which Parkland Hospital is the training facility will now have a Spanish language requirement added to their already jammed-packed curriculum. No other school in the country boasts such a ridiculous multi-semester (multicultural) requirement.


(Sorry for the length, but this needs wide circulation particularly to our "employees" in Congress.)


Remember this is about only ONE hospital in Dallas, Texas. There are many more hospitals across our country that must also deal with this.


PLEASE SEND THIS TO EVERY U.S. CITIZEN YOU KNOW.


If you want to verify the accuracy of this information:


http://www.snopes.com/politics/immigration/parkland.asp

El Camino del Rey 2010 HD

June 26, 2010

What 25,000 Barrels oil looks like!

Putting BP's 25,000 barrels/day spill in perspective:
This is what 25,000 barrels of oil looks like if it were stacked on the ground.  This is what is gushing into the Gulf.

Every.  Single.  Day!

June 25, 2010

Vote for Matt!


Help a Brother out! My buddy Matt is living in Bangalore, India. He's currently in a Karaoke contest and needs votes. Visit this site, watch Matt's video, and hit the like button. Thanks!! Todd

June 23, 2010

66 Years Later

What is the story here? Be sure to view all the way to the end!

What happened to the radiation that's supposed to last thousands of years??

HIROSHIMA 1945




We all know that Hiroshima and Nagasaki were destroyed in August 1945 after explosion of atomic bombs.

However, we know little about the progress made by the people of that land during the past 64 years.

HIROSHIMA - 66 YEARS LATER















DETROIT - 66 YEARS AFTER HIROSHIMA.....













What has caused more long term destruction -

the A-bomb or U. S. politics?