Happy Memorial Day

Well kids, it's Memorial Day weekend and you know what that means. Nobody will be reading this post. It's time once again to take a few minutes to honor those brave men and women who made the ultimate sacrifice to this great country.


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Also, today would be a good day to honor Newt Heisley who died last week. Newt is the man who designed the POW/MIA flag...


RIP to a Great American.

Now that we've done that, we can all go back to questioning each other's patriotism, calling people who disagree with us traitors and engaging in all kinds of fear mongering and shit like that.


Memorial Day is also the unofficial start to the summer. Which means the weekend is usually full of family activities, golf and baseball tournaments and, of course grilling. When you get out the grill and clean off the cobwebs and toss a dead cow on there, please remember not to overcook that steak. I hate to even think of steaks that are overcooked. Although, most people prefer to grill up burgers and hot dogs and have picnics and that stuff. Which is always fun. But, if you don’t have a grill, or aren’t very good cook, you can always get a cheeseburger in a can…


I guarantee you it doesn’t really look like that. Yuck!

It’s also a very busy time of year for both your local AND national news crews. They have to spend a lot of time putting together little public service announcements reminding us all about boating safety, hurricane and tornado preparedness, the “driving season,” the importance of using sun screen and other summer activities.

And, they have to send somebody out to stand along the interstate or at the airport to tell us that the roads and airways are busy with people traveling on the holiday weekend. The people who do these little reports are the same people who get sent out to the mall on the day after Thanksgiving and to the post office the night of April 15th to let us know what is happening.

Why do they go to the time and expense of making these stupid PSA and reports? Can’t they just use the tapes of the PSA’s they’ve run for the last 50 years? It seems like it would save them a lot of time and money. Of course, doing the “The Swimming pools are now open” and “Always wear pleanty of sunscreen” reports always include babes in bikinis, so it’s still worth watching.

Anyway, back to grilling dead cows. I have a storage tip for ya. In the winter, when you put the grill up until the nice weather comes back around, be sure to take the rack out of it and clean it up a bit and keep it inside. Cause if you leave it in the grill, when you open it up the next spring you will find a really nasty looking rack that is very rusted because it will have snowed and rained on your grill. How do I know this? Well, let’s just say that I will be going to Wal-Mart tomorrow morning to get a new rack for my grill.

Oh, and of course this is only applicable to those of use who still used charcoal. All you fancy-schmancy gas and propane grill users, with their non-stick surfaces probably don’t have this problem. But, my charcoal cooked cow is still better.

And finally, I want to send out a big congratulations to Helio Castroneves. Helio has been on a pretty good roll of late. A couple of years ago he won Dancing with the Stars, just a month ago he was exonerated of tax evasion charges that were brought against him by the IRS and today he won his THIRD Indianapolis 500!

Ooops .. *DVR Spoiler Alert!* Sorry about that.

Anyway, Helio isn’t an American, he’s Brazilian, which makes him hot


But I think every red-blooded American sheds a little tear of happiness when anyone beats the IRS.

Great job Helio! And don’t worry about all those stories about the federal government and the IRS being sore losers. All that will happen is they will audit you every single year for the rest of your life, place you on the no-fly list and hound you into your grave trying to entrap you. Nothing to worry about at all dude.