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Ahh, the sweet smell of freedom.

I’ve noticed it doesn’t smell like rubber.

I’ve only got 13 hours of tire building to go.

I think I can, I think I can.

You may have seen the new bottles of Diet Coke Plus in your local grovery store. It’s Diet Coke with vitamins and minerals added into it.

You may have been wondering what it tastes like. You may even have been tempted to buy some.

Let me save you the time and money. It’s nasty. Disgusting. Think of the nastiest generic cola you have ever tasted. Now imagine dissolving a handful of aspirin in it. You are now officially imagining drinking Diet Coke Plus.

Ecchhh.

I’ve got 50 hours of tire building to go before I get a massive vacation.  I will be off from Tuesday, June 26th through Thursday, July 19th.  I can’t wait.

Of course, most of that time will be spent working on this and this, but at least there won’t be tires involved

Here in South Carolina, our politicians aren’t so much corrupt as just hard partyers.

COLUMBIA, S.C. - South Carolina Treasurer Thomas Ravenel, a former real estate developer who became a rising political star after his election last year, was indicted Tuesday on federal cocaine charges.

The millionaire is accused of buying less than 500 grams of the drug to share with other people in late 2005, U.S. Attorney Reggie Lloyd said. Ravenel, 44, is charged with distribution of cocaine, which carries a maximum sentence of 20 years in prison.

In South Carolina almost everybody is Republican.  Aiken County (in which I reside) is one of the most consistently Republican voting counties nationwide.  My neighbor, who is in charge of the elections around here, told me once that if Jesus ran as a Democrat here, he would lose by 20 points.  I believe him.

The reason I believe that most people around here are Republican is not because of ideology or  self-interest.  I think that voting (R) is actually against the interests of this predominantly middle class area.  I think they vote for the GOP becasue they think they will actually get a Grand Ole Party.  Hookers and cocaine and champagne to pour on the coked-up hookers.  I think Thomas Ravenel proves my point.

Hope every Daddy out there is having a good one.  My kids have already presented me with a handmade card and a Lowe’s gift card.  I have some wonderful children.

There is nothing to show you how old and fat you have gotten like playing tag with your 2 kids (combined age of 6.5 years).

My lovely wife has been losing a bunch of weight lately.  My buddy Todd has been losing alot of weight.  I have not.  I’m getting very close to my breaking point.  I’m not gonna be able to stand being the lardbelly of the groups I hang out in.

Let me sit down and think about this for a minute.  Maybe some donuts will take my mind off it.

I was reading some stuff about the whole abortion debate a few days ago so it’s been on my mind a bit that past few days.

I have to admit to having the “moderate liberal” view of the whole thing.  I wish that no one would have to get one, but I support the right of the woman to decide.  I think an abortion is much preferable to someone that is unable/unwilling to properly care for a child having one.

But all that is really neither here nor there for what is on my mind.  I know that the anti-abortion crowd believes that life begins at conception, which is why they think that abortion is murder.  I don’t agree with that, but let’s give them that.  Let us assume for the sake of argument that immediately after conception you have life and thus abortion is murder.

I guess then, we can assume that means that if a man has sex with his wife in a situation that could result in pregnancy (i.e. unprotected sex), he needs to make sure that there is no more intercourse until they are sure she is NOT pregnant.  Like waiting a month or two. Because if there was conception, then any further sex would have to be labeled child molestation.  I’m sure there is no court in the land that could hold that ejaculating onto a child doesn’t meet the criteria for molestation.

And the woman better not drink until she is sure, because that would be contributing to the delinquency of a minor.  And she better not… you get the idea.  It could go on and on.

I think these cats are headed down a slippery slope.

Emily and Jonathan

Originally uploaded by jaslusher

Emily, Jonathan and I are still getting used to the new camera. They are NOT camera shy, so when you pull one out you can expect a pose or 15. Which is good, considering how cute they are.