Gibson Guitars And the Predictions

They came for my cigarettes — who among you said one word against it? I could ask questions like this all day long and there are no answers.

Why should I care? I’ve got a bagful of nice guitars, and

Indianapolis, IN–I’m still at Indy.

When I got done writing yesterday’s Ramble, I did my usual pre-trip inspection of my truck and found that I had oil coming from one wheel seal. This is a possibly dangerous situation, with

Queens, NY– I’m at College Point again, unloading as this is written. I’m writing ths on m Palm Pre’ so it’ll be a ittle shorter than usual, perhaps. 

A nice weekend, but a bit short. It’s cooler around here this

Clayton, NY— I’m here dropping a load of Pepsi products, and will run to Rochester, grab another trailer and run it to Monroe Township,NJ before I call it a day. It’s been raining since I left on Sunday night, non-stop.

Rochester, NY— I’m home today, but will leave for Allentown PA tonight, for a couple of short hops. Four or five days out., in total. It’ll be a little cooler, and my truck is running well, so it should be

Obama has lost that loving feeling, from Dr. Milton R. Wolf, Washington Times:

Is President Obama really a different man today than he was before he entered the Oval Office? The same Illinois legislator who voted “present” 129

Hickory Run, PA– I’m at my stop for the night, along Interstate 80. This is actually a favorite stop of mine… not for the facilities…. they need some help, actually… but because it’s very near to a place I load

Middle Village, NYC,NY– It’s an OK place, but I don’t know as I’d want to live here. Too damned crowded for one thing. I’m here unloading at a mall, after having driven in in the small hours of  the morning…

Pattersonville, NY, along I-90–

Took a break to deal with a few issues and drop a note on the blog. Rain and fog here today, and some serious thunderstorms threatening. I’m cooking some lunch after which, I’ll be heading to

You know what a watermelon is?  It is green on the outside but red on the inside.

Big Green flops, a clearly flummoxed Bradford Plumer wonders why the watermelons movement, the so-called green movement has laid such massive big

Mocking Media Splatters, Mark Hemingway mocks David Brock, of Media Splatters for American, from Weekly Standard:

But as Nietzsche once said, “At times one remains faithful to a cause only because its opponents do not cease to be

Dope from Hope Ropes Hill, now I Am not a fan of the Dope from Hope, Mike Huckabee, but the Dope has roped in the Hill, from Michael O’Brien, Hill-

Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee (R) incorrectly suggested

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Who is Barack Hussein Obama, from Lori Montgomery, Washington Post:

President Obama rolled out a $3.7 trillion budget blueprint Monday that would trim or terminate more than 200 federal programs next year and make key investments in

Make my day, Shirley Sherrod has just made Andrew Breitbart’s day, night and wet dreams, from Pajamas Media:

First Daniel Snyder, now Shirley Sherrod.  Captain of the Bigs Andrew Breitbart has been sued by former USDA employee Shirley

Harrisburg, PA–

As this is written, I’m at the TA in Harrisburg. I was supposed to be over by Albany by this time, but an equipment failure…. (flat tire) lost me four hours of drive time.  When things go mostly