Shit that Pisses Me Off

I received an anonymous letter yesterday from the people of Roanoke Street. The letter said I should clean up my yard. It also said my house looks good and I should stop blocking the road. not too sure what to make of it... Well I'm pretty sure people who do that suck ass. We have been moving for a couple of months and there is a couch and some other furniture out behind my house as well as some old lawn mowers under a tree. I've been hoping that the trash guys would take it but no luck. None of this is visible from Roanoke street so I suspect it's actually the people of Murray Street or Main Street who are taking issue with this. Apparently they haven't lived here long and don't understand the gravity of the situation. You may not want to be my friend, but you certainly don't want to be my enemy! Or perhaps they DO know and that's why they chose the anonymous route. The real problem here is that a non trivial portion of the town has done bad things to m

I was driving through Radford in January and received a tax ticket from Cpl. Frost for an expired inspection sticker and not wearing my nanny belt. I was out of town on the first court date and he had a training on the second one so it was continued to June. I arrived at the time noted on the summons and got my first indication that this was going to be an interesting morning. The summons lied, of course the SCOUS has said cops can lie but I wasn't aware that fell to the courts as well. Court didn't actually start until 9, not 8:30 as stated on the summons. The Officers at the metal detector were telling the assortment of college students to tuck in their shirts and no shorts and take your cell phones back to the car.  Lawyers get to keep theirs as well as cops, I saw three of the cops get calls or texts while waiting and run out for conversations. They all came back so I'll assume it wasn't a crime spree they needed to respond to. We got into the courtroom and wa

The Virginia State police are operating their mega tax program this weekend on the interstates. The claim is they are going to make us safer by giving out tickets for not wearing our seat belts, even though they promised when the nanny's made the law, that it would be a secondary offense.There is some evidence that primary seat belt enforcement kills more pedestrians, since the drivers feel more secure and drive more aggressively. Let's talk about the speed limit. It's an arbitrary number that some unknown entity charges according to their mood. I can remember the interstate speed limit being everything from 45 to 80, the road didn't change so it must be an arbitrary number. Lots of places change the number to create speed trap tax income. I guess if they could they would do the whole state like out tax collecting State police. Didn't really feel safer today on 81 from Bristol to Blacksburg. Same number of idiots in the left lane. It just seemed like everything

Can someone please explain to me why the State of Virginia and Botetourt County gave all their employees the following holidays? Christmas - December 23 and 24.   Taxpayers - 1/2 of December 24th New Years 1/2 of December 30th and all of December 31.   Taxpayers - No time off! This weekend - January 14th (Lee Jackson Day) AND January 17th (MLK).  Taxpayers - no time off or some on the 17th. We are in the middle of an economic slowdown.  Why do government employees who receive pensions, health insurance, and automobiles also get all these days off when they don't even fall on the holiday?  The private sector doesn't take the holidays when they are on the weekend, why does the public sector? Speaking of elitist government, the way to fix Social Security and the health care crises is to make the congress use both.  They have their own health care and if you serve one term in congress, you get a pension for life!  What happened to citizen legislators?

Both sides do it. Conservatives and liberals like to jump to conclusions that they think makes some stupid point of their political agenda.  Today lots of crass liberals are basically saying that Sarah Palin killed the congresswoman in Arizona because there's a web site with the congresswoman's head in gun sites.  These are the same liberals who laughed at this: Or this: These are ok but Palin's cause deaths!  Somehow they missed the report that the shooter's my space page states that he was a big fan of the communist manifesto which would align him more with Obama than Palin.

The judges of Virginia have decided that they don't want cell phones in their courtrooms.  I would agree that it is annoying to have cell phones many places that I go.  In the case of the judges, unlike the rest of us, they have the ability to punish stupid people who do not turn off their cell phones.  Like us, I guess they figured out that even with punishment the idiots do not learn. Fair enough.  The problem is that they banned phones in the *courthouse* not the courtroom.  I showed up at Roanoke City Court the other day to file civil papers and had to return to the car to put my phones in since they were no longer allowed in the courthouse. To  begin with, that took 5 minutes off my time available for the 30 minute parking,  As everyone knows, public servants are not known for their speedy work habits.  That's actually our fault since we elect the same clerk of court for like 50 years in a row...what's their incentive for improvement? So here I am Citizen Huckleber