Trucking

Would you believe a trucking site was at the number one position in Yahoo search for Sarah Palin in a Bikini? We’ve dropped to number six so maybe this will boost us back up a little. There are still no real pictures of Sarah Palin in a bikini. But do you remember hearing about how she competed in the Miss Alaska pageant? Wouldn’t you know it, there she is in a one piece on the runway during the Miss Alaska competition:

Since I don’t watch TV while I’m on the road, I heard about Sarah Palin’s appearance on Saturday Night Live and now that I have some time sitting and waiting for my next load I was checking the clips out on hulu.com. In case you haven’t seen them, here’s the opening few minutes and the SNL Weekend Update clip. After the jump (Click on the Read More link).
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After unloading near Miami, FL and heading back north, the southbound interstate 95 was shut down. Cops were blocking the onramps and more troopers were blocking the southbound lanes. Obama is in the area. I’m sure it’s for security, but my only thought was that he doesn’t want to be on the same interstate as the unwashed masses. Even if I was voting for him, I couldn’t take the arrogance of the man. From the Presidential seal modification, the Greek columns at the convention and now he’s planning his victory party with Iranian caviar. Isn’t there a trade embargo with Iran? Maybe it doesn’t include the cavier.

And now with Joe the plumber. I thought the democratic party was pro working man. Aren’t they supposed to be the compassionate ones? Aren’t they the party that wants everyone to be included? Since he’s not in the union, he’s not relevant to them. Since he wants to better himself instead of remaining elbow deep in other people’s feces, his questions don’t count. Since he’s a registered Republican he’s not relevant and not supposed to speak to the anointed one. I wrote a Joe the Plumber post over on Life on the Road you can check out.

Since we are registered as “unaffiliated”, I get calls from both sides. I always give different answers on surveys, so don’t believe any polls you hear about, especially about the Nevada candidates. I had one democrat caller say they wanted to talk about the issues, but they asked if I was supporting Obama, I said, “probably not”. They didn’t want to discuss the issues anymore and hung up. I want them to convince me to vote for their guy. I’m not talking about the survey takers, that’s different, this was clearly a party volunteer. One time I was asked if I was supporting Obama and I answered, “Hell, yeah! I want him to take ALL my money, not just some of it.” They hung up too.

Speaking of voting, I’m filling out my absentee ballot after dinner tonight. I would take it in to the restaurant, but don’t want gravy falling on the Obama box by mistake. I’ve still got plenty of homework to do and I need to check with CSN and see how I did on my english placement test. Wouldn’t it be a hoot if I had to take a remedial class to get to a college freshman english class? How is someone going to tell if I need a remedial english class from one page of an essay? Just looking at this site, there are probably plenty of reasons I should be in remedial english. Nevermind. Math, that’s a different story. I know I’m going to be in the pre-math class, I’m not even worried about that yet.

All the election and economy news got you down? Have you turned off all the news channels or ripped out your satellite dish, but you still want news?

How about pirates, Iran and Moussad spy stuff for a change of pace?

One of the podcasts I download on a regular basis is a talk show from KFI in Los Angeles. Bryan Suits is an Iraq War Veteran. He has a regular talkshow during the week, but on Sundays he goes into his “dark secret place” and talks about the war, foreign policy, the war on terrorism and the military. plus a lot of what the headlines aren’t saying.  He has not only been in Iraq, but the first Gulf War and Bosnia as an NCO in the Army National Guard and later commissioned before going to Iraq. He jokes a little about a head wound he got in Iraq, so he might be home on disability.

Here’s the show from two Sundays ago about the Somali pirate situation that’s going on. Plus, what’s going on in Israel and a little history of what the Moussed has done. The Chinese are in the Sudan getting their oil and we’re trying to make the Sudan a safe place. If the Chinese lose people in the Sudan, they just send more and we’re always portrayed as the evil ones?

Go to the KFIAm640 download section and look under Sunday for Bryan Suits, get the feed or search in iTunes for KFI. Previous shows are worth the download. It’s a two hour radio show, which translates to about an hour with all the commercials and news breaks taken out. In iTunes or the RSS feed you have to subscribe to all the Sunday shows, but you can just download this one. Since you’re downloading and have the Sunday lineup in front of you, check out the Jesus Christ show for something really different.

Probably not. I’ve heard this a few other places that Obama’s Honolulu birth certificate looks a little suspect and his time out of the country, there is an issue with his citizenship. I never realized the Annenberg at factcheck.org is the same Annenberg project in Chicago that Obama’s was connected to. If they were the same you would think someone would have brought that up somewhere by now.

I”m back out on the road again. Still taking classes online, finished the Network+ prep class with an A. Now I need to actually go take the test and get certified while I still remember stuff. The A+ certification looks like it’s in more demand if you go to sites like monster.com, but I had to take the class anyway and the college gives a discount voucher for taking the class, so might as well get the certification. Maybe I can stack my resume full of certifications with no experience? After I finish and get the A+ certification in December I may start seriously looking for computer work.

I might write everyday for several websites, but when it comes to writing a resume, forget it! I did find this great resource about writing resumes and it’s cheap! It explains the different formats for resumes, having the right format for the right job you’re applying for, plus several different examples of cover letters.

There’s a podcast I listen to that is more about Living in Las Vegas, but the wife of the couple used to work for Google as a recruiter and she now works in Vegas at one of the Gaming Industry recruiters. She was saying she only spends about 15 seconds scanning a resume, so the facts and the qualifications better stand out and better be easy to read or she will probably miss it.

She says she reads cover letters and they need to be straight to the point. Some recruiters don’t read cover letters, but they’re nice to have. If you include a cover letter, it needs to be done right.

If anyone else is in the job market scattering their resumes to jobs and online job sites, this is a great resource to have. Don’t be fooled by the low price, it’s packed full of tips and the correct way to do a resume from the beginning. For only $7 you can’t afford not to check this out, even if you think you already know how to write the best resume.

Go here for a great resume writing resource.

I’ve been home for about a week now. The truck went in the shop for a minor fix, then I took the truck to have the APU fixed. That APU thing has been in the shop so much I’m not sure it’s saved me money or not. It’s always something different. If it goes out again, I may not fix it. It’s nice to have because that’s the only way I have right now to make the microwave work. I need it to watch TV, but I haven’t watched TV in the truck for a long time now and when I do, it’s usually a DVD of a CSI rerun.

RTC Southern Nevada

The mass transit system in Vegas is great. You can take a bus just about anywhere in the metro area. It’s $1.25 to ride one way or $2.50 for a 24 hour pass, as many transfers and any direction for 24 hours. It’s a great bargain. I rode to the shop, picked up the truck, took it to the APU shop, back to the house, then to my dentist appointment the next day. I was in the dentist for so long it was past 24 hours, so I walked home. All buses have bike racks and it takes two seconds to put your bike up or take it down. The website for the bus system has a routing program, you put in your origination, destination and the time of day and it gives you three options. All with times and walking distance and a very detailed map and trip info. It really is pretty cool. And since Vegas is a 24 hour town, a lot of the buses have 24 hour schedules. Those aren’t for the tourists, they’re for the casino workers and everyone else that works the night shifts.

The Bailout Mess

What else have we done? I’ve listened to way too much news. The so-called bailout that wasn’t really a bailout was probably necessary, but all of the extra junk that they put in the bill probably wasn’t. Everyone says they want to fix the problem and not place blame. I would feel a lot better if an investigation was done and people went to jail. Why is this different from Enron? People are losing their retirements and 401k’s just like Enron. Enron lied about their books while the executives were spending shareholder money. People went to jail. In this mortgage security fiasco, people need to go to jail. Maxine Waters, Barney Franks and Chris Dodd would be a good start.

Everyone has seen this video right? The democrats yelling at the regulators trying to tell them Fannie and Freddie are cooking their books, while the democrats are saying there’s nothing wrong.

Chris Dodd on the bank and finance committe getting the most money from Fannie and Freddie? What’s up with that?

What about ACORN?

While we’re throwing people in jail, how about the people at ACORN? And wasn’t Barack Obama training ACORN community organizers and telling them how to intimidate banks with racism if they didn’t make loans to people that couldn’t afford to pay them back? And no one knows who’s fault this is? They can’t have an investigation because it would be like a bunch of foxes trying to determine which one of them raided the hen house when they all did it at the same time they’re all denying it.

ACORN gets raided in Nevada for voter fraud? What a surprise? They actually investigated and raided ACORN’s office. ACORN will have so much power when Obama gets in office they will do anything it takes to get him in office. Did you know in Ohio, when you register to vote, you can place your vote. So if you just make up a name when you register, they can’t check and see if your even eligible to vote until much, much later. If at all. ACORN is working BIG TIME in OHIO. What a stupid system.

I can’t wait for the election to be over. I really don’t think anything is going to get much better and might even get worse, no matter who is in office.

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And the first commercial is out. I listened to the first half of the debate, then was able to come back to it when it was done. This commercial come out about 30 seconds after the debate was over. Barack Obama says he’s going to cut taxes on the middle class, how come I don’t believe him? The bar is at $250k, is that net? Gross? Adjusted Gross? That’s also in the range of a majority of small business’ and small business is the core of the economy and if they have to pay more taxes, they’re not going to hire or spend more.

You know everyone is going to be watching the VP debate.

No one really messed up. I thought McCain was smoother with his answers. Hannity kept mentioning how Obama’s answers were well rehearsed. You could tell when he went off script a little and lost his train of thought a few times. But since McCain spent more time in Washington working on the bailout fiasco while Obama was rehearsing his debate speeches, McCain did really well. But no one thinks any minds were changed. Probably won’t be any movement in the polls next week.

In-between the news about the bailout or not, the debate or not, I found this piece about Cindy McCain. It’s incredible the amount of charity work she has started and is very involved with. Not just on the boards but actually hands on in the trenches doing the work.

It also mentions how her father made his fortune after Cindy was born. So she wasn’t really brought up rich but grew into it.

Cindy McCain: Polished look to many, but her focus is on others
BY TINA LAM • FREE PRESS STAFF WRITER • September 21, 2008

As a volunteer for charities, she dresses in jeans, T-shirts and hiking boots and travels to the least-glamorous parts of the globe: Vietnam, Thailand, Cambodia, Kosovo, Rwanda and Georgia this year alone.

Cindy McCain is a director of Operation Smile, which offers free surgery to kids in foreign countries with cleft palates and other deformities; a trustee of HALO Trust, which removes land mines, and a board member on leave from CARE, an international charity.

Until it closed in 1995, she led more than 55 missions overseas for American Medical Voluntary Team, a charity she started in 1988.

She led. She was there, stepping over bodies in Rwanda. Not in a corporate office. Not sitting in the boardroom of a Chicago private Hospital, in charge of sending the people without health insurance, the poor and needy people in search of health care to some other hospital. The hospital where the other potential first lady prospered, paid her $300k a year. But she was helping the community! She was helping herself and the corporation she worked for make money. There’s nothing wrong with that, but don’t lie about it and say your doing community work and helping the poor.

Cindy McCain has done all of her work on her own. Traveling the world without a press entourage and getting the job done of helping without the fanfare.

Michelle Malkin has a ton of information about why we should kill the bailout bill, how we got to this point and where Congress wants more money to go to mortgage counseling to groups like AARP, ACORN, La Raza and hundreds of other groups around the country now have their hands out. 1.3 million to La Raza for mortgage counseling? Are they nuts?

And Michelle’s piece on how thousands if not millions of loans handed to illegals and of course, now they can’t pay. Can anyone say SECURE THE BORDER? Oh, too late. Never mind.

Kill the bailout: Illegal immigration and the mortgage mess
By Michelle Malkin • September 24, 2008 07:49 AM
Among many examples cited by the FBI: a conspiracy in Las Vegas involving a former Nevada First Residential Mortgage Company branch manager who directed loan officers and processors in the origination of 233 fraudulent Federal Housing Authority loans valued at over $25 million. The defrauders manufactured and submitted false employment and income documentation for borrowers; most were illegal immigrants from Mexico.

Newt Gingrich and others are against it because it’s anti-capitalist. Why is Bush trying to cram this down our throats? Congress wants more control and oversight, which they should absolutely have, but the Democrats will pass it because for one, it’s one more step toward socialism and it’s a chance to spend money and they want in on it. Go read Michelle’s site she’s up to the minute on all of this.