Hanging with hippies!

Something new for the Spandex King. This weekend I will be participating in my first disc golf tournament. This summer my family has been playing a ton of disc golf. It's a great game! There a lot of courses and the sport is cheap! Most courses are free and discs are about $20 tops! You can buy a starter set for about 25 bucks! 25 Bucks and your good to go. If you haven't played give it a try. Check out this link to find out more. Peace, out!

One Nation Under God? Not at Home Depot.

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. – A former cashier for The Home Depot who has been wearing a "One nation under God" button on his work apron for more than a year has been fired, he says because of the religious reference. The company claims that expressing such personal beliefs is simply not allowed.

"I've worn it for well over a year and I support my country and God," Trevor Keezor said Tuesday. "I was just doing what I think every American should do, just love my country."

The American flag button Keezer wore in the Florida store since March 2008 says "One nation under God, indivisible."

Earlier this month, he began bringing a Bible to read during his lunch break at the store in the rural town of Okeechobee, about 140 miles north of Miami. That's when he says The Home Depot management told him he would have to remove the button.

Keezer refused, and he was fired on Oct. 23, he said.

"It feels kind of like a punishment, like I was punished for just loving my country," Keezer said.

A Home Depot spokesman said Keezer was fired because he violated the company's dress code.

"This associate chose to wear a button that expressed his religious beliefs. The issue is not whether or not we agree with the message on the button," Craig Fishel said. "That's not our place to say, which is exactly why we have a blanket policy, which is long-standing and well-communicated to our associates, that only company-provided pins and badges can be worn on our aprons."

Fishel said Keezer was offered a company-approved pin that said, "United We Stand," but he declined.

Keezer's lawyer, Kara Skorupa, said she planned to sue the Atlanta-based company.

"There are federal and state laws that protect against religious discrimination," Skorupa said. "It's not like he was out in the aisles preaching to people."

Keezer said he was working at the store to earn money for college, and wore the button to support his country and his 27-year-old brother, who is in the National Guard and is set to report in December for a second tour of duty in Iraq.

Skorupa noted the slogan on Keezer's pin is straight from the Pledge of Allegiance.

"These mottos and sayings that involve God, that's part of our country and historical fabric," Skorupa said. "In God we trust is on our money."

Michael Masinter, a civil rights and employment law professor at NOVA Southeastern University in Fort Lauderdale, said any lawsuit over religious discrimination might be a tough one to win.

"Because it's a private business, not one that's owned and operated by the government, it doesn't have to operate under the free speech provisions of the First Amendment," Masinter said.

"But we're not talking about religious displays here," he said. "This sounds more like a political message ... Wearing a button of that sort would not easily be described as a traditional form of religious expression like wearing a cross or wearing a yarmulke."

Spandex King At The Movies

Friday night was crappy weather. We were going to work at the haunted corn maze but the fields were to wet so it was canceled. Having a free night with not much else to do we headed out to the movies. The Queen picked this: The Stepfather.

What a creeper. Predictable, but worth seeing. Don't want to give away to much but I think you get the story. New dad-gone bad. Worth seeing? Sure. This is not really my kind of movie but it was suspenseful and kept you on the edge of you seat. I give it a B.

Zoom Zoom Zoom

A 62-year-old Minnesota man, Dennis LeRoy Anderson, was charged with DUI after driving home from a bar on his motorized Lazy Boy.
The pimped out vehicle runs on a lawnmower motor, has a stereo, headlights, and, of course, handy cup holders. And you’ll love this, a sticker on the back reads: “Hell yeah, it’s fast!”
Dennis drove such vehicle to the bar one day in August 2008, downed about 8-9 beers then drove his Lazy Boy home. Everything was fun and games until he crashed into a parked car on the way. Yes, it was parked.
His blood alcohol level was a staggering .29 at the time of his arrest. He failed all sobriety tests and was arrested for DUI. He later pleaded guilty and was sentenced to 18-months in jail and slapped with a $2000 fine. However, the judge took mercy on old Dennis and stayed his term – as long as he completes an alcohol course, submits to random testing and completes supervised probation for 24-months. His days of cruising the hood in the Lazy Boy, now a distant memory. Not that he actually does remember..
I’m almost embarrassed to admit that I have a friend who seriously has something similar to the Lazy Boy (yeah, I have friends in low places) except his is a motorized barstool. It’s really pretty sweet, but it’s definitely hillbilly bling!

Third Time Is A Charm! In 10 Months!

MADISON - A Wisconsin lawmaker was facing calls for his resignation or expulsion Thursday after he was arrested a day earlier for driving under the influence for the third time in 10 months.

A criminal complaint filed today against Rep. Jeffrey Wood said a citizen saw his vehicle drive into oncoming traffic in Tomah in western Wisconsin and twice enter an intersection at a red light before backing up. The caller said the vehicle almost struck hers in the parking lot outside a Dollar Tree store.

Something Special From Wisconsin.

An Onalaska man faces charges for allegedly driving drunk and hitting a parked car that ended up inside a Centerville bar. And the name of the bar you ask? The Jail House! I guess it's two jail houses in the same night for him.

Getting Serviced.

SERVICE

Confused? Let me help you a bit I became confused when I heard the word"Service" used with these agencies:

Internal Revenue 'Service'
Postal 'Service'
Telephone 'Service'
Cable TV 'Service'
Civil 'Service'
State, City, County & Public 'Service'
Customer 'Service'

This is not what I thought 'Service' meant..

But today, I overheard two farmers talking, and one of them said he had hired a bull to 'Service' a few cows..
BAM!!! It all came into focus. Now I understand what all those agencies are doing to us.

You are now as enlightened as I am.

I guess the bear wanted a beer!

HAYWARD, Wis. – Shoppers in a Wisconsin grocery store got an unexpected surprise when a 125-pound black bear wandered inside and headed straight for the beer cooler.
The bear stopped Friday night at Marketplace Foods in Hayward, about 140 miles northeast of Minneapolis, sauntering through the automatic doors and heading straight for the liquor department.

It calmly climbed up 12 feet onto a shelf in the beer cooler where it sat for about an hour while employees helped evacuate customers and summoned wildlife officials.
Officials from the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources tranquilized the animal and took it out of the store. Store workers say the bear seemed content in the cooler and did not consume any alcohol.

My parnets have a cabin in Hayward and our family spends a lot of time there. But we never saw a bear in town! Crazy!

Cowboy's and Lesbian's

> An old cowboy sat down at the Starbucks and ordered a cup of coffee.
> As he sat sipping his coffee, a young woman sat down next to him.
>
> She turned to the cowboy and asked,
> 'Are you a real cowboy?'
>
> He replied, 'Well, I've spent my whole life breaking colts, working cows, going to rodeos,
> Fixing fences, pulling calves, bailing hay, doctoring calves, cleaning my barn, fixing flats,
> Working on tractors, and feeding my dogs, so I guess I am a cowboy.'
>
> She said, 'I'm a lesbian. I spend my whole day thinking about naked women.
> As soon as I get up in the morning, I think about naked women. When I shower,
> I think about naked women. When I watch TV, I think about naked women.
> It seems everything makes me think of naked women.'
>
> The two sat sipping in silence.
>
> A little while later, a man sat down on the other side of the old cowboy and asked,
> 'Are you a real cowboy?'
>
> He replied, 'Always thought I was, but just found out I might be a lesbian.'

One Hot Bike with extra hot Zipp Wheels with extra extra hot decals!

This is Michellie Jones Kona bike. I made the decals for the Zipp wheels. Smoking hot!

Hey hey there you sexy pumpkin!

In summary, the police arrested Patrick Lawrence, 22 year old white male, in a pumpkin patch at 11:38 p.m. on Friday night.

On Monday, at the Gwinnett County (GA) courthouse, Lawrence was charged with lewd and lascivious behaviour, public indecency, and public intoxication.

The suspect explained that as he was passing a pumpkin patch on his way home from a drinking session when he decided to stop, 'You know how a pumpkin is soft and squishy inside, and there was no one around for miles or at least I thought there wasn't anyone around' he stated in a telephone interview.

Lawrence went on to say that he pulled over to the side of the road, picked out a pumpkin that he felt was appropriate to his purpose, cut a hole in it, and proceeded to satisfy his alleged need. 'Guess I was really into it, you know?' he commented with evident embarrassment. In the process of doing the deed, Lawrence failed to notice an approaching police car and was unaware of his audience until Officer Brenda Taylor approached him.

'It was an unusual situation, that's for sure,' said Officer Taylor. 'I walked up to Lawrence and he's just banging away at this pumpkin.' Officer Taylor went on to describe what happened when she approached Lawrence ..

'I said, 'Excuse me sir, but do you realize that you're having sex with a pumpkin? He froze and was clearly very surprised that I was there, and then he looked me straight in the face and said..

.

'A pumpkin? Shit.... is it midnight already?'

This was in the Washington Post...the title of the article was 'Best Come Back Line Ever.'

Know when to say when!

I was working the finish passing out medals at IM Wisconsin this year from nine to midnight. I hung the medal around the gentleman to the left after he crashed through the finish line. He was in bad shape. I didn't realize how bad of shape he really was until I read the story below. Sometimes it's better to listen to your body and call it a day. This guy went face down and had to be carried away. I hung his medal around his neck as he was being carried away in a horizontal position. They were yelling at me to give him his medal and I asked where? They told me to hang it around his neck. It was the weirdest thing of the day for me as I hung his medal around his neck. I hope all is well with him.


Bill Enright was the last official triathlete to cross the finish line at this year's Ironman Wisconsin crossing the line in a time of 16 hours, 56 minutes and 28 seconds.

With just under three minutes to spare before the race closed you would think that he would be over the moon to finish the Ironman in the nick of time.

"I sort of just reached for the ground -- it could've been broken glass and I would've laid on it," Enright said.

But while the Ironman took the 43-year-old Madison insurance executive and father of three, just under 17-hours to finish, the stay in the hospital that followed the race took 35-hours and almost killed him because his serious condition could have led to permanent kidney failure.

Enright suffered from rhabdomyolysis, a muscle breakdown caused by strenuous physical exertion, according to the Wisconsin State Journal.

Rhabdomyolysis is rare, serious and preventable, Dr. Lee Faucher, medical director for Ironman Wisconsin since 2004 said. It's a condition he's seen at ultramarathons but never at the Ironman. "A person gets that because they don't take in enough fluids to compensate for the loss of fluid," he added.

"It was a great accomplishment completing the Ironman, but in retrospect I wish he had stopped earlier," Dr. Cate Ranheim, who treated him, said. "The system is set up to encourage people to go, go, go and make it to the end, but people like him can potentially suffer lifelong consequences."

It's more than a game for some people.

The Minnesota Vikings-Green Bay Packers match up is history. But, we're learning now about two football fans whose argument over the game turned violent.

A 30-year-old Minneapolis man has been arrested for stabbing another man after they quarreled about the game at the Leaning Tower of Pizza restaurant in Minneapolis Monday night.

Forty-one-year-old Leif Heide of Minneapolis was stabbed in the abdomen after the suspect followed him outside the restaurant and confronted him. Heide was taken to the Hennepin County Medical Center where he had surgery.

The suspect later called 911 and told dispatchers he had stabbed a man. Officers arrested him and recovered a knife from his pocket.

Never give up! Wow!

MINNEAPOLIS - Organizers of the Twin Cities Marathon say they won't disqualify an 81-year-old runner who won his age group after using a borrowed catheter.

Jerry Johncock of Shelbyville, Mich., was sidelined at an aid station about 21 miles into Sunday's race because a blood clot prevented him from urinating. The aid station had no catheter, but a spectator stepped forward to offer Johncock a catheter he had in his car.

Aides helped insert the catheter and Johncock went on to finish in a little over 5 hours 22 minutes.

Race officials considered disqualifying Johncock because of a rule against improper assistance. But executive director Virginia Brophy Achman said they decided Johncock didn't break the rule.

She called Johncock "a great role model and example of what you can do as a runner.''

Johncock's wife, Dorlene, said her husband was cheered by the ruling. She said he found the whole situation a little humorous.

Running Interrupted ! Plantar fasciitis Sucks!