We definitely need to change the system but is this the way? I don’t know. I do know that I have a friend who has a grand-daughter, who had an injury that was covered while she was in college. She dropped for 1 (one) semester and now the same insurance company won’t insure her as it is a pre-existing condition. Is this right?

I know folks who work hard, not bums or homeless, but work for stores, delivery services, etc., 40 hours a week+, who can’t afford health insurance. Is this right?

Rates in California recently went up as much as 39%. Is this right?  If the price of gasoline (in my case diesel) went up 30% in one day would you be screaming?

He may be wrong. The country for the most part thinks he is. The bill is terrible flawed but we have to do something. Maybe we should start again – but only if we mean to provide health care to our citizens who need it IN SPITE of what FOR PROFIT insurance companies want. We can’t let hard working Americans be victimized by insurance companies and their lobbyists. It is time to get corporations out of our government.

and get some tomatoes. or bread or diapers, YOU CANNOT JUST DOUBLE PARK IN FRONT OF SAFEWAY! If you did, would you not notice people having trouble turning, getting around you, traffic stacking up? Or is your head so far up the exhaust pipe you didn’t hear me yelling at you?

Are you an idiot? I guess we have established that.

Abuse suspected in Woods crash, report states – AP

Supposedly, the ambulance crew would not let his wife ride with him to the hospital because they suspected domestic violence.

Wow. Really? Do ya think?

Actually I am more surprised that she wanted to ride with him. I think they made that part up.

Reminds me of a story I heard years ago . . . Lady walks into the Strator Bar in Durango, Colorado, and shoots her cheating husband 6 times. It was ruled an accidental shooting.

Yesterday Presley and I were at Sportsmobile in Fresno. While we were looking around I saw a lot of rear-ends – must have be the angle or something. Things were pretty busy there with one new van going out to some lucky person.

When I first got there, there was a pallet of AGM4 batteries sitting by the back door. They had just been delivered. Someday (or on the next SMB) I’d like to have 2 of these.  The perfect place would be where the spare was as it would put some weight on the axle for traction in the snow.

And last, let’s not forget the SMB professionals who put it all together!

We wouldn’t get very far without them!

Apologies to The Killers for paraphrasing some of the lyrics of a great song.

Ok, you are in a run-away Toyota. Do you shift into neutral – no, “I was afraid the car would flip.” Are you an idiot? Did you really apply the brakes with both feet at maximum pressure? Did you turn the engine off? No, not until the California Highway Patrol told you to while you were going up a hill at 55mph.

And the Press. Yesterday’s reports were that the CHP slowed the car by blocking it – NO! The CHP pulled their car in front of the stopped Toyota to make sure it did not take off again. The Press do have an excuse in the initial reports so I will cut them some slack.

But Mr. Sikes? No slack for you or the many other Americans caught up in what history will show for some, is mass panic just like when one kid gets sick in the cafeteria and many others get sick also.

Is there a real problem? No doubt. But hysteria seems to be the norm now.

Having been slightly challenged for the last couple of weeks, things are coming together again.

While washing the Sprinter, my cell fell into the bucket of water. Although I quickly rescued it, all it would do is flash on and off and make a high pitched noise not unlike an electronic scream – kinda like when the bad guy in the Terminator fell into the molten steel. I actually enjoyed not having a cell phone for a while but finally was pushed to get a new one by “relatives.”

Then, last Friday, my computer decided it would turn off and on all pretty like, but what ever program I clicked on it would tell me, “I’m sorry Keith, I can’t do that.” After spending an afternoon (for me) with a nice person from India I had to surrender and reinstall Windows.

For any of you who email me or call me (and read this), you need to do it again so I have your address. Unless you go back to before September 2009 – I have everything before that. So, Rick, Stu, Nick, Larry, my friends at SOCOM, my nephews, Lynn, David, K2, Trish, “Here come the Judge”, Kent, email me. Jim, Cliff, Billy, Robert, Ben, Peav, Pam, Martin – youse guys are ok. Everyone in my VA group(s) are ok too.