Sights and Sounds of Bahrain

"Interesting" is a term, "land between time" is another way of describing some of the sights and sounds here in Bahrain. 

Here is one for ya.  As I was driving into the parking lot at my hotel, there was Saudi Ford Excursion with not less then 15 people inside.  Mind you most of the people were under the age of 12 but still 15 folks.  Yes and not a car seat was to be found.  Interesting. 

Today while eating lunch I saw a bubba I used to work with in Germany.  He worked in the Basement of the DISCOM building.  Those of you who where there would remember the big red neck Major from Tennessee.  Well the Major is now a light colonel. 

Yesterday when I went to the pool to get my trophy.  Yes I am a great swimmer!  I bumped into one of my old crewman/rescue swimmer. Was nice to see a friendly face and even nicer were the comments he made about me and the impact I had upon his life. 

Last week, during lunch, I ran into a guy who was on the Saipan war cruise '03 158 days at sea with 3 beer days!  

I look out my hotel window and see a modern city near the ocean,  I look down into the adjacent lots and I see construction techniques from the middle ages!  Interesting.  OSHA would have a field day here after going off the deep end.

I guess the road to my ultra modern hotel was just paved in the last year or so.  Interesting!

It is all about taxes...

Liberty and freedom! I think our founding fathers would be proud!

First Looser!

So here i am in the desert.  Well, it just happens there is a swimming pool on this base and a guy I work with likes to hit the pool around lunch time.  So that is what we do.  One day there was a sign up for a 2x100 meter relay race.  My co-worker said, " hey we are two large dudes, why dont we give it a try?" So we signed up and that was that.  Well today was race day and I was the first leg.  I put in a stellar performance of 1:30 and our team time was 2:50, good enough for 2nd place out of 12 teams.  I can honestly say I was near cardiac arrest when I finished my leg.  My goggles wrapped around my neck when I dove in and this really screwed the pooch.  My partner "Mule" had a similar problem  However we did overcome and performed as you can see below!

Nutz in the Sand Box

Well I finally found some one with a digital camera that I can mooch. Bob, my roomate, I use that term lightly cuz Bob lives in Dupont Circle and you know what they say about those types from Dupont Circle?!

Anyhow we went out exploring the countryside this past weekend. We hit most of the big tourist things, The 1st Oil well, the Tree Of life and well that is about it... Oh, least i forget the we saw the oil museum and the Bahrain International Circuit, AKA the race track.

All in all things are good. We moved out of our crappy hotel and are now in the Marriott Executive Apartments Very nice very nice, and settling into the job at hand.

So back the the whole digital pix thing, Bob took some shots, I took some shots and Bob was great full enough to share them with me. I will no longer contemplate putting acrinic in his dinner. Oh that is right I have been branded, knighted, ordained the "Bobby Flay" of the Marriott. Ok maybe the second floor of our office building..... Well that might be pushing it..

Enjoy the pix..
Nutz

captured by terrorists in Iraq ...

Katie Couric, Charlie Gibson, Brian Williams and a tough old U. S. Marine Sergeant were The leader of the terrorists told them he'd grant each of them one last request before they were beheaded and dragged naked through the streets.

Katie Couric said, 'Well, I'm a Southerner, so I'd like one last plate of fried chicken.' The leader nodded to an underling who left and returned with the chicken. Couric ate it all and said, 'Now I can die content.'

Charlie Gibson said, 'I'm living in ' New York , so I'd like to hear the song 'The Moon and Me one last time.' The terrorist's leader nodded to another terrorist who had studied the Western world and knew the music. He returned with some rag-tag musicians and played the song. Gibson was satisfied.

Brian Williams said, 'I'm a reporter to the end. I want to take out my tape recorder and describe the scene here and what's about to happen. Maybe, someday, someone will hear it and know that I was on the job till the end.' The leader directed an aide to hand over the tape recorder and Williams dictated his comments.

He then said, 'Now I can die happy.' The leader turned and said, 'And now, Mr. US Marine, what is your final wish?' 'Kick me in the ass,' said the Marine. 'What?' asked the leader, 'Will you mock us in your last hour?' 'No, I'm NOT kidding. I want you to kick me in the ass,' insisted the Marine. So the leader shoved him into the yard and kicked him in the ass. The Marine went sprawling, but rolled to his knees, pulled a 9 mm pistol from inside his cammies and shot the leader dead. In the resulting confusion, he emptied his sidearm on six terrorists, with his knife he slashed the throat of one with an AK-47, which he took, and sprayed the rest of the terrorists killing another 11! In a flash, all of them were either dead or fleeing for their lives.

As the Marine was untying Couric, Gibson and Williams, they asked him, ' Why didn't you just shoot them all in the first place? Why did you ask him to kick you in the ass?' 'What!?!' replied the Marine, 'and have you three assholes report that I was the aggressor....?

More Fair tax fodder

Taxation WITH representation...
Maybe we should have a party in Boston Harbor Part Duex?

Yes, absolutely. Both personal and corporate income
taxes go away under the FAIR TAX. Once every wage earner realized how big
a bite the US government takes away every payday, the politicians could
never go back to the 68,000 page tax code.

Right now, the FAIR TAX people estimate that there is
$13 trillion dollars sitting in overseas accounts
controlled by major US corporations and individuals. If we gave those
companies and individuals 6 months to repatriate that money into US banks
without tax consequences, that would be a $13 trillion injection directly into
the banking system with no tax/interest burden on the US taxpayer.
Isn't that where they are trying to get the money to, the banks?

Think about that statement. The government isn't getting
any taxes on that money now since it's overseas. Instead, they are jacking
around with a $785 billion injection in this so-called "Stimulus Package," which
Rush Limbaugh rightly calls the "Porkulus Package," when they know right where
to go for $13 trillion. How corrupt is
that?

Add to that immediate injection of $13 trillion, all the
deposits that would begin to flow into the US from overseas. Why?
The US would in effect become a tax haven for the world. A guy in Calcutta
who has always lusted after long-legged Texas babes wants to move his operation
to Austin because he can without penalty. He brings his cash, his
key people, his cousin and they all need, and can afford, houses,
cars, haircuts, swimming pools and the like. When US citizens see all
the money that they really earn turning-up in the paychecks, they begin buying
houses, cars, haircuts and swimming pools too. THIS IS
CALLED A "BOTTOM-UP" ECONOMIC RECOVERY. Obama thinks that he can
orchestrate a "Top Down" recovery which they tried in the 1930's and failed to
do. WW II got us out of depression, not the CCC.

Why don't the politicians with any brain power push for
this? Because, if they adopt the FAIR TAX, they lose the power to include
tax cuts for constituents like the manufacturer of toy wooden arrows on the
Pacific coast, the owner of a NASCAR racetrack and a Puerto Rican rum distiller,
that's why! These preferential tax cuts were all included in the first
"TARP" package of $850 billion.

If enough people were educated enough to be able to sit down
and analyze what the federal government is doing, they'd shut this
government down immediately and vote in someone like Mike Huckabee who included
the FAIR TAX in his presidential campaign platform.

From John K.

How to sign in?

Things are a little different here in the middle east.  The ass crack of the world?  Did I say that out loud?  Anyhow people read from right to left vice left to right like the rest of the civilized world.   Anyhow I don't know how to log in to "Blogger" Is sign in in the normal spot or is it some place else?

El Muerto in the "View"

My wife thinks this happened down in little Juarez where all the Mexican laborers live.

East Ocean View Fatal Shooting - WTKR

Socialization of America

Fire Congresswomen Maxine Waters!
She wants the government to run American Industries

Support the Fair Tax

Catch the cheats and all the other dead beats who do not pay their taxes.

Want to stimulate the economy?  Have a 6-month tax holiday on federal taxes, rewrite the tax code to support the Fair-Tax and watch our economy and the rest of the world explode! 

Neal Boortz Fair Tax

Over Easy Please...

Denny's to give away free Grand Slam breakfasts - BusinessWeek

SPARTANBURG, S.C.

Denny's Corp. said it will give away a free Grand Slam breakfast to any customer visiting its restaurants on Tuesday between 6 a.m. and 2 p.m.

The restaurant chain announced the giveaway during an ad that aired during the third quarter of the Super Bowl on Sunday.

Denny's said Monday that it expects up to 2 million people to take advantage of the deal.

"This free offer is our way of reacquainting America with Denny's real breakfast and with the Denny's brand," Chief Executive Nelson Marchioli said in a statement.

The Grand Slam breakfast includes pancakes, eggs, bacon strips and sausage links.

The company sells more than 12.5 million Grand Slam breakfasts a year.

However, unlike the Senate, Roland Burris will get a seat here! Nutz