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&lt;i&gt;"They rally round the family with a pocket full of shells"&lt;/i&gt;   -Public Enemy</subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://trentonpowers.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7061490172150208439/posts/default?max-results=100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://trentonpowers.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><author><name>Trenton Powers-Mellencamp</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02890452025044001110</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='23' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_EOx9wP3Fj10/SbxZzOYEUTI/AAAAAAAAAG0/_xl59Z4YNjo/S220/policesketch.jpg'/></author><generator version='7.00' 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href='http://trentonpowers.blogspot.com/2011/10/moved.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7061490172150208439/posts/default/5376579754124819037'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7061490172150208439/posts/default/5376579754124819037'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://trentonpowers.blogspot.com/2011/10/moved.html' title='Moved'/><author><name>Trenton Powers-Mellencamp</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02890452025044001110</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='23' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_EOx9wP3Fj10/SbxZzOYEUTI/AAAAAAAAAG0/_xl59Z4YNjo/S220/policesketch.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7061490172150208439.post-5598262100991807038</id><published>2011-07-09T09:42:00.000-06:00</published><updated>2011-07-09T09:42:32.023-06:00</updated><title type='text'>Julia Roberts on Life After Relevancy</title><content type='html'>"I wax my upper lip weekly, but my girl 'stache keeps getting thicker"&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7061490172150208439-5598262100991807038?l=trentonpowers.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://trentonpowers.blogspot.com/feeds/5598262100991807038/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://trentonpowers.blogspot.com/2011/07/julia-roberts-on-life-after-relevancy.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7061490172150208439/posts/default/5598262100991807038'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7061490172150208439/posts/default/5598262100991807038'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://trentonpowers.blogspot.com/2011/07/julia-roberts-on-life-after-relevancy.html' title='Julia Roberts on Life After Relevancy'/><author><name>Trenton Powers-Mellencamp</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02890452025044001110</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='23' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_EOx9wP3Fj10/SbxZzOYEUTI/AAAAAAAAAG0/_xl59Z4YNjo/S220/policesketch.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7061490172150208439.post-8903454515042524218</id><published>2011-03-20T09:57:00.002-06:00</published><updated>2011-03-20T09:57:37.843-06:00</updated><title type='text'>Idea</title><content type='html'>Someone should do a blog about the Lybia war was not wrong.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7061490172150208439-8903454515042524218?l=trentonpowers.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://trentonpowers.blogspot.com/feeds/8903454515042524218/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://trentonpowers.blogspot.com/2011/03/idea.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7061490172150208439/posts/default/8903454515042524218'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7061490172150208439/posts/default/8903454515042524218'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://trentonpowers.blogspot.com/2011/03/idea.html' title='Idea'/><author><name>Trenton Powers-Mellencamp</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02890452025044001110</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='23' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_EOx9wP3Fj10/SbxZzOYEUTI/AAAAAAAAAG0/_xl59Z4YNjo/S220/policesketch.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7061490172150208439.post-6884447520680334669</id><published>2011-02-20T10:45:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2011-02-20T10:50:42.620-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Neocon Apologist blogger Ann Althouse asks...</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://althouse.blogspot.com/2011/02/i-wouldve-come-yesterday-but-i-had-to.html"&gt;http://althouse.blogspot.com/2011/02/i-wouldve-come-yesterday-but-i-had-to.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;Do you think the shaved-headed young man in the sunglasses and North Face jacket is a Tea Partier? If not, why not? &lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I think the more relevant question would be:&amp;nbsp; Is the guy in the black beanie under the Scott Walker for president sign picking his nose, or just scratching?&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7061490172150208439-6884447520680334669?l=trentonpowers.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://trentonpowers.blogspot.com/feeds/6884447520680334669/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://trentonpowers.blogspot.com/2011/02/necon-apologist-blogger-ann-althouse.html#comment-form' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7061490172150208439/posts/default/6884447520680334669'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7061490172150208439/posts/default/6884447520680334669'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://trentonpowers.blogspot.com/2011/02/necon-apologist-blogger-ann-althouse.html' title='Neocon Apologist blogger Ann Althouse asks...'/><author><name>Trenton Powers-Mellencamp</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02890452025044001110</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='23' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_EOx9wP3Fj10/SbxZzOYEUTI/AAAAAAAAAG0/_xl59Z4YNjo/S220/policesketch.jpg'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7061490172150208439.post-5835008161341749506</id><published>2011-01-21T15:15:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2011-01-21T15:15:21.206-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Urban Outreach Initiative'/><title type='text'>Following Trenton Powers blog lead</title><content type='html'>Its finally high time that Huffington Post decided to get on the &lt;a href="http://dailycaller.com/2011/01/20/huffington-post-to-add-african-american-section/"&gt;urban outreach&lt;/a&gt; bandwagon.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Over here at &lt;a href="http://trentonpowers.blogspot.com/"&gt;this &lt;/a&gt;blog we're always blazing new progressive ground.&amp;nbsp; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Plus our black commentator is way more &lt;a href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/07158971897901536688"&gt;edgy&lt;/a&gt; than theirs will be.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; That is 100% guarantee.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7061490172150208439-5835008161341749506?l=trentonpowers.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://trentonpowers.blogspot.com/feeds/5835008161341749506/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://trentonpowers.blogspot.com/2011/01/following-trenton-powers-blog-lead.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7061490172150208439/posts/default/5835008161341749506'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7061490172150208439/posts/default/5835008161341749506'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://trentonpowers.blogspot.com/2011/01/following-trenton-powers-blog-lead.html' title='Following Trenton Powers blog lead'/><author><name>Trenton Powers-Mellencamp</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02890452025044001110</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='23' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_EOx9wP3Fj10/SbxZzOYEUTI/AAAAAAAAAG0/_xl59Z4YNjo/S220/policesketch.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7061490172150208439.post-1375231556252833891</id><published>2011-01-19T08:58:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2011-01-19T08:58:20.400-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Counterpoint.  Venus Williams</title><content type='html'>Venus Williams has a &lt;a href="http://sports.yahoo.com/tennis/blog/busted_racquet/post/Venus-Williams-is-still-wearing-really-short-dre?urn=ten-308608"&gt;fat ass&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7061490172150208439-1375231556252833891?l=trentonpowers.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://trentonpowers.blogspot.com/feeds/1375231556252833891/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://trentonpowers.blogspot.com/2011/01/counterpoint-venus.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7061490172150208439/posts/default/1375231556252833891'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7061490172150208439/posts/default/1375231556252833891'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://trentonpowers.blogspot.com/2011/01/counterpoint-venus.html' title='Counterpoint.  Venus Williams'/><author><name>Trenton Powers-Mellencamp</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02890452025044001110</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='23' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_EOx9wP3Fj10/SbxZzOYEUTI/AAAAAAAAAG0/_xl59Z4YNjo/S220/policesketch.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7061490172150208439.post-7081118230616183066</id><published>2011-01-19T08:53:00.002-07:00</published><updated>2011-01-19T08:56:43.178-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Point.  Venus Williams</title><content type='html'>Venus Williams is a flower of &lt;a href="http://sports.yahoo.com/tennis/blog/busted_racquet/post/Venus-Williams-tops-herself-with-crisscrossed-W?urn=ten-309374"&gt;Nubian womanhood&lt;/a&gt;.  A fashion icon toward which all our African American princesses can aspire.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I'm Latrell X!!!  Peace!!!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7061490172150208439-7081118230616183066?l=trentonpowers.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://trentonpowers.blogspot.com/feeds/7081118230616183066/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://trentonpowers.blogspot.com/2011/01/point-venus-williams.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7061490172150208439/posts/default/7081118230616183066'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7061490172150208439/posts/default/7081118230616183066'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://trentonpowers.blogspot.com/2011/01/point-venus-williams.html' title='Point.  Venus Williams'/><author><name>LaTrell X</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07158971897901536688</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_jLc75dhMHyE/TTIK8nYZFLI/AAAAAAAAAAM/qjn8-N1aPnk/S220/latrell.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7061490172150208439.post-6068406913418987092</id><published>2011-01-18T07:11:00.002-07:00</published><updated>2011-01-18T07:11:22.265-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Why I'm Smarter Then You</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/lifestyle/2011/01/16/2011-01-16_beautiful_men_women_have_high_iqs_too_study.html"&gt;Its Science&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7061490172150208439-6068406913418987092?l=trentonpowers.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://trentonpowers.blogspot.com/feeds/6068406913418987092/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://trentonpowers.blogspot.com/2011/01/why-im-smarter-then-you.html#comment-form' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7061490172150208439/posts/default/6068406913418987092'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7061490172150208439/posts/default/6068406913418987092'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://trentonpowers.blogspot.com/2011/01/why-im-smarter-then-you.html' title='Why I&apos;m Smarter Then You'/><author><name>Trenton Powers-Mellencamp</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02890452025044001110</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='23' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_EOx9wP3Fj10/SbxZzOYEUTI/AAAAAAAAAG0/_xl59Z4YNjo/S220/policesketch.jpg'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7061490172150208439.post-6585971035250210246</id><published>2011-01-17T13:11:00.004-07:00</published><updated>2011-01-17T13:41:26.952-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Urban Outreach Initiative'/><title type='text'>Prejudicial claptrap</title><content type='html'>The tone of this article is prejudicial, unconscionable objectionable and completely one-hundred percent opposite what the reverend Martin Luther King Jr. fought for, bled for and died for in the latter half of the twentieth century.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://hotair.com/archives/2011/01/17/deutsch-sharpton-claim-arizona-has-seceded-for-not-recognizing-mlk-day/"&gt;http://hotair.com/archives/2011/01/17/deutsch-sharpton-claim-arizona-has-seceded-for-not-recognizing-mlk-day/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The cynical tone taken here is demonstrative of an ideological paradigm hopelessly corrupted by its own racism, sexism, homophobism, xenophobism, nihilism and many other -isms too numerous to count.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;To celebrate one states regressive refusal to honor the late Doctor Martin Luther King Jr. on the federally recognized Martin Luther King Jr. memorial holiday is racist prejudicial claptrap, and the author of the linked article is a peddler of hate and misery.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I'm Latrell X!!!! Peace!!!!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7061490172150208439-6585971035250210246?l=trentonpowers.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://trentonpowers.blogspot.com/feeds/6585971035250210246/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://trentonpowers.blogspot.com/2011/01/prejudicial-claptrap.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7061490172150208439/posts/default/6585971035250210246'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7061490172150208439/posts/default/6585971035250210246'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://trentonpowers.blogspot.com/2011/01/prejudicial-claptrap.html' title='Prejudicial claptrap'/><author><name>LaTrell X</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07158971897901536688</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_jLc75dhMHyE/TTIK8nYZFLI/AAAAAAAAAAM/qjn8-N1aPnk/S220/latrell.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7061490172150208439.post-6294949227368592000</id><published>2011-01-16T08:07:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2011-01-17T13:11:02.255-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Photo Critique'/><title type='text'>Photo Critique x3</title><content type='html'>This bird is reminiscent of the dove of peace which the tea party and satan palin massacred last week in Tucson.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; CLEAR: both" class="separator"&gt;&lt;a style="MARGIN-LEFT: 1em; MARGIN-RIGHT: 1em" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_EOx9wP3Fj10/TTMI44qPVSI/AAAAAAAAAPg/Z2Ibrr-0yts/s1600/bird.jpg" imageanchor="1"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_EOx9wP3Fj10/TTMI44qPVSI/AAAAAAAAAPg/Z2Ibrr-0yts/s320/bird.jpg" width="256" height="320" n4="true" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It also reminds of the kookoo (which is extinct) because soon the tea party will be extinct and they are also kookoo.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7061490172150208439-6294949227368592000?l=trentonpowers.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://trentonpowers.blogspot.com/feeds/6294949227368592000/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://trentonpowers.blogspot.com/2011/01/photo-critique-x3.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7061490172150208439/posts/default/6294949227368592000'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7061490172150208439/posts/default/6294949227368592000'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://trentonpowers.blogspot.com/2011/01/photo-critique-x3.html' title='Photo Critique x3'/><author><name>Trenton Powers-Mellencamp</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02890452025044001110</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='23' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_EOx9wP3Fj10/SbxZzOYEUTI/AAAAAAAAAG0/_xl59Z4YNjo/S220/policesketch.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_EOx9wP3Fj10/TTMI44qPVSI/AAAAAAAAAPg/Z2Ibrr-0yts/s72-c/bird.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7061490172150208439.post-3722422540167249113</id><published>2011-01-15T19:39:00.002-07:00</published><updated>2011-01-15T20:03:02.401-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Urban Outreach Initiative'/><title type='text'>New in 2010!</title><content type='html'>With the new year upon us all it is again time to roll out some new features for my (Trenton Powers) main blog in 2010.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As you can tell from reading some post below, there is a new member of our team.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; Because&lt;a href="http://trentonpowers.blogspot.com/"&gt; this blog &lt;/a&gt;has been (admitted) shamefully remissed in not being as inclusive to the ethnic and urban populations, I invited a new blogger to visit from time to time.&amp;nbsp; His name is&lt;a href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/07158971897901536688"&gt; Latrell X.&lt;/a&gt; You might notice that he is really edgy and hard core especially for a family blog like this one, but that is because &lt;a href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/07158971897901536688"&gt;Latrell X&lt;/a&gt; is black.&amp;nbsp; He is a professor (black) from the inner city and he brings lots of experience and knowledge about black issues.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; So please keep an open, forward thinking mind when reading&lt;a href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/07158971897901536688"&gt; Latrell X'&lt;/a&gt;s posts because he is black, after all.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Its all about urban outreach in 2010 here at Trenton Powers blog.&amp;nbsp; There is also more stuff coming (new) so be sure to read more.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Also for those who remember, our own Speng Musselman is still resting at home and should be back on his feet soon.&amp;nbsp; He thanks all of our readers for the positive energy sent his way.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7061490172150208439-3722422540167249113?l=trentonpowers.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://trentonpowers.blogspot.com/feeds/3722422540167249113/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://trentonpowers.blogspot.com/2011/01/new-in-2010.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7061490172150208439/posts/default/3722422540167249113'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7061490172150208439/posts/default/3722422540167249113'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://trentonpowers.blogspot.com/2011/01/new-in-2010.html' title='New in 2010!'/><author><name>Trenton Powers-Mellencamp</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02890452025044001110</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='23' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_EOx9wP3Fj10/SbxZzOYEUTI/AAAAAAAAAG0/_xl59Z4YNjo/S220/policesketch.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7061490172150208439.post-3723765586534221228</id><published>2011-01-15T19:20:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2011-01-15T19:28:49.132-07:00</updated><title type='text'>BREAKING NEWS:  Progressive Tucson Victim Oppressed by Tea Party</title><content type='html'>Oh man this is&lt;a href="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/41094534/ns/us_news-crime_and_courts/"&gt; bad&lt;/a&gt;, this is so bad:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;A Tucson mass shooting victim was taken into custody Saturday...The Pima County Sheriff's Office said J. Eric Fuller, 63, was involuntarily committed to an undisclosed medical facility.&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Crap do you see what there doing here?&amp;nbsp; The tea party is rounding up those who witnessed there brutality first hand and sending them to reeducation or doctorination camps.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The tea party have only been in power for a couple weeks and they are already clamping down on free speech.&amp;nbsp; THIS IS OUTRAGE!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I swear I will have more when this story develops.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;UPDATE:&lt;/b&gt;&amp;nbsp; This should be a time for healing and dealing with trauma but not for the Tea Party.&amp;nbsp; Those bastards need to be held to account for there hateful rhetoric.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7061490172150208439-3723765586534221228?l=trentonpowers.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://trentonpowers.blogspot.com/feeds/3723765586534221228/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://trentonpowers.blogspot.com/2011/01/breaking-news-progressive-tucson-victim.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7061490172150208439/posts/default/3723765586534221228'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7061490172150208439/posts/default/3723765586534221228'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://trentonpowers.blogspot.com/2011/01/breaking-news-progressive-tucson-victim.html' title='BREAKING NEWS:  Progressive Tucson Victim Oppressed by Tea Party'/><author><name>Trenton Powers-Mellencamp</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02890452025044001110</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='23' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_EOx9wP3Fj10/SbxZzOYEUTI/AAAAAAAAAG0/_xl59Z4YNjo/S220/policesketch.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7061490172150208439.post-3902949566262387204</id><published>2011-01-15T14:49:00.005-07:00</published><updated>2011-01-16T17:02:41.377-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Urban Outreach Initiative'/><title type='text'>Cracker calls crackers crackers</title><content type='html'>News cracker Chris Matthews tried to curry favor with the black man Friday night when he referred to &lt;a href="http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2657145/posts"&gt;crackers&lt;/a&gt; as crackers.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Now brothers and sisters let me be blunt, a cracker calling a white man a cracker is like a fat man laughing at another fat mans gunt.&lt;br /&gt;So, ya honky ass cracker take my advise: our favorite urban soulja is now president, so y'all better play nice.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I'm LaTrell X!!!!!!!!  Peace!!!  I'm outta here!!!!!!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7061490172150208439-3902949566262387204?l=trentonpowers.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://trentonpowers.blogspot.com/feeds/3902949566262387204/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://trentonpowers.blogspot.com/2011/01/cracker-calls-crackers-crackers.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7061490172150208439/posts/default/3902949566262387204'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7061490172150208439/posts/default/3902949566262387204'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://trentonpowers.blogspot.com/2011/01/cracker-calls-crackers-crackers.html' title='Cracker calls crackers crackers'/><author><name>LaTrell X</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07158971897901536688</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_jLc75dhMHyE/TTIK8nYZFLI/AAAAAAAAAAM/qjn8-N1aPnk/S220/latrell.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7061490172150208439.post-3468288016149109786</id><published>2011-01-15T07:28:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2011-01-15T07:30:08.257-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Photo Critique'/><title type='text'>Photo Critique</title><content type='html'>This picture is more about global warming and climate change which the deniers are saying isnt really happening.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_EOx9wP3Fj10/TTGufL5jKMI/AAAAAAAAAPU/g3ySx_ZkX7U/s1600/232323232%257Ffp5339%253B_nu%253D5%253B92_996_234_WSNRCG%253D34__6_359%253B325nu0mrj.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="256" n4="true" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_EOx9wP3Fj10/TTGufL5jKMI/AAAAAAAAAPU/g3ySx_ZkX7U/s320/232323232%257Ffp5339%253B_nu%253D5%253B92_996_234_WSNRCG%253D34__6_359%253B325nu0mrj.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Its also a metaphore for health care which they (deniers) also said wasnt happening (or a problem)(I cant remember which it was).&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7061490172150208439-3468288016149109786?l=trentonpowers.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://trentonpowers.blogspot.com/feeds/3468288016149109786/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://trentonpowers.blogspot.com/2011/01/photo-critique_15.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7061490172150208439/posts/default/3468288016149109786'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7061490172150208439/posts/default/3468288016149109786'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://trentonpowers.blogspot.com/2011/01/photo-critique_15.html' title='Photo Critique'/><author><name>Trenton Powers-Mellencamp</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02890452025044001110</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='23' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_EOx9wP3Fj10/SbxZzOYEUTI/AAAAAAAAAG0/_xl59Z4YNjo/S220/policesketch.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_EOx9wP3Fj10/TTGufL5jKMI/AAAAAAAAAPU/g3ySx_ZkX7U/s72-c/232323232%257Ffp5339%253B_nu%253D5%253B92_996_234_WSNRCG%253D34__6_359%253B325nu0mrj.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7061490172150208439.post-7059137545326665719</id><published>2011-01-14T15:32:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-01-14T15:32:05.379-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Because who hasn't developed pictures of a Glock next to his bare buttocks</title><content type='html'>I dont know why they think &lt;a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/15/us/15giffords.html?pagewanted=1&amp;amp;_r=2&amp;amp;hp&amp;amp;adxnnlx=1295035206-rUIzHKSNKwumbsmhZBlkaA"&gt;this is ne&lt;/a&gt;ws:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;Law enforcement officials said Friday they have multiple photos of &lt;a class="meta-per" href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/l/jared_lee_loughner/index.html?inline=nyt-per" title="More articles about Jared Lee Loughner."&gt;&lt;span style="color: #004276;"&gt;Jared L. Loughner&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt; posing with a Glock 9mm pistol next to his naked buttocks and dressed in a bright red g-string.&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The greater story that the conservative media is tripping over itself to not address, is that this article goes out of its way to paint the tea party operative who did this murder as a just garden variety nut.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; More furthermore, it does so by peppering the first sentence with unnecessary details which might insight more hate against the forward thinking Tucson homosexual community.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Is there no depth to which this conservative rag wont sink to further Satan Palin's monstrous agenda?&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7061490172150208439-7059137545326665719?l=trentonpowers.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://trentonpowers.blogspot.com/feeds/7059137545326665719/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://trentonpowers.blogspot.com/2011/01/because-who-hasnt-developed-pictures-of.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7061490172150208439/posts/default/7059137545326665719'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7061490172150208439/posts/default/7059137545326665719'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://trentonpowers.blogspot.com/2011/01/because-who-hasnt-developed-pictures-of.html' title='Because who hasn&apos;t developed pictures of a Glock next to his bare buttocks'/><author><name>Trenton Powers-Mellencamp</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02890452025044001110</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='23' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_EOx9wP3Fj10/SbxZzOYEUTI/AAAAAAAAAG0/_xl59Z4YNjo/S220/policesketch.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7061490172150208439.post-4014762503210719209</id><published>2011-01-14T09:24:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2011-01-15T07:30:51.114-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Photo Critique'/><title type='text'>Photo Critique</title><content type='html'>I like this picture because in our day and age it is importent to remember that without stronger fences (metaphor / security) around our congress people, then they arent safe from the tea party and Sarah Palin.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_EOx9wP3Fj10/TTB4SoXWTPI/AAAAAAAAAPQ/lz7uHNZjMGQ/s1600/232323232%257Ffp53388_nu%253D5%253B92_996_234_WSNRCG%253D34__6_5262325nu0mrj.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="256" n4="true" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_EOx9wP3Fj10/TTB4SoXWTPI/AAAAAAAAAPQ/lz7uHNZjMGQ/s320/232323232%257Ffp53388_nu%253D5%253B92_996_234_WSNRCG%253D34__6_5262325nu0mrj.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So the lesson here is fences is important.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7061490172150208439-4014762503210719209?l=trentonpowers.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://trentonpowers.blogspot.com/feeds/4014762503210719209/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://trentonpowers.blogspot.com/2011/01/photo-critique.html#comment-form' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7061490172150208439/posts/default/4014762503210719209'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7061490172150208439/posts/default/4014762503210719209'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://trentonpowers.blogspot.com/2011/01/photo-critique.html' title='Photo Critique'/><author><name>Trenton Powers-Mellencamp</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02890452025044001110</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='23' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_EOx9wP3Fj10/SbxZzOYEUTI/AAAAAAAAAG0/_xl59Z4YNjo/S220/policesketch.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_EOx9wP3Fj10/TTB4SoXWTPI/AAAAAAAAAPQ/lz7uHNZjMGQ/s72-c/232323232%257Ffp53388_nu%253D5%253B92_996_234_WSNRCG%253D34__6_5262325nu0mrj.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7061490172150208439.post-8035424180243603402</id><published>2011-01-14T08:01:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-01-14T08:01:27.539-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Only in Sarah Palin's America</title><content type='html'>Can a convicted felon like &lt;a href="http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/draft2011/news/story?id=6019964"&gt;Cam Newton&lt;/a&gt; be in the draft.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Where did we lost our moral compass?&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; Guys like Michael Vick can murder dogs and Cam Newton can do what he did and everyone is like: "thats ok he can still be in the draft".&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; WFT is going on here?&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7061490172150208439-8035424180243603402?l=trentonpowers.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://trentonpowers.blogspot.com/feeds/8035424180243603402/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://trentonpowers.blogspot.com/2011/01/only-in-sarah-palins-america.html#comment-form' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7061490172150208439/posts/default/8035424180243603402'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7061490172150208439/posts/default/8035424180243603402'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://trentonpowers.blogspot.com/2011/01/only-in-sarah-palins-america.html' title='Only in Sarah Palin&apos;s America'/><author><name>Trenton Powers-Mellencamp</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02890452025044001110</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='23' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_EOx9wP3Fj10/SbxZzOYEUTI/AAAAAAAAAG0/_xl59Z4YNjo/S220/policesketch.jpg'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7061490172150208439.post-7793104393139063885</id><published>2011-01-05T06:53:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-01-05T06:53:25.250-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Chad Everett</title><content type='html'>Re: recent suggestion that Chad Everett could replace Leslie Nielsen as Marcus Welby MD. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ridiculous. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Chad Everett is dangerous.&amp;nbsp; He is a loose cannon.&amp;nbsp; Yes, it is easy to forgive and forget that Michael Vick once killed puppies.&amp;nbsp; Who hasn't?&amp;nbsp; Yes its wrong but wrong doesn't bring those puppies back.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; But this is a different case.&amp;nbsp; Chad Everett beat up Jim Rome.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; There is NO comparison.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If you take "killing puppies" on one hand (metaphorically speaking) and "beating up Jim Rome" on the other hand, which one ways more?&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; Beating up Jim Rome.&amp;nbsp; Hands down.&amp;nbsp; There is no comparison and there should be no forgiveness for Chad Everett.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7061490172150208439-7793104393139063885?l=trentonpowers.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://trentonpowers.blogspot.com/feeds/7793104393139063885/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://trentonpowers.blogspot.com/2011/01/chad-everett.html#comment-form' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7061490172150208439/posts/default/7793104393139063885'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7061490172150208439/posts/default/7793104393139063885'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://trentonpowers.blogspot.com/2011/01/chad-everett.html' title='Chad Everett'/><author><name>Trenton Powers-Mellencamp</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02890452025044001110</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='23' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_EOx9wP3Fj10/SbxZzOYEUTI/AAAAAAAAAG0/_xl59Z4YNjo/S220/policesketch.jpg'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7061490172150208439.post-7459670168566494356</id><published>2011-01-04T08:03:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-01-04T08:03:33.229-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Cant Believe</title><content type='html'>Oh man I cant believe it has been a whole year since Leslie Nielsen died. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If they ever do a remake of Marcus Welby MD, I dont even have a guess who could fill Leslie Nielsens shoes.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7061490172150208439-7459670168566494356?l=trentonpowers.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://trentonpowers.blogspot.com/feeds/7459670168566494356/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://trentonpowers.blogspot.com/2011/01/cant-believe.html#comment-form' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7061490172150208439/posts/default/7459670168566494356'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7061490172150208439/posts/default/7459670168566494356'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://trentonpowers.blogspot.com/2011/01/cant-believe.html' title='Cant Believe'/><author><name>Trenton Powers-Mellencamp</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02890452025044001110</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='23' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_EOx9wP3Fj10/SbxZzOYEUTI/AAAAAAAAAG0/_xl59Z4YNjo/S220/policesketch.jpg'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7061490172150208439.post-5670371985586790290</id><published>2010-08-29T08:28:00.002-06:00</published><updated>2010-08-29T08:28:40.816-06:00</updated><title type='text'>Why</title><content type='html'>I am perplexed.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; Wondering: why did it take Obama five years to visit Louisiana after Katrina?&amp;nbsp; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It makes no sense.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7061490172150208439-5670371985586790290?l=trentonpowers.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://trentonpowers.blogspot.com/feeds/5670371985586790290/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://trentonpowers.blogspot.com/2010/08/why.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7061490172150208439/posts/default/5670371985586790290'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7061490172150208439/posts/default/5670371985586790290'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://trentonpowers.blogspot.com/2010/08/why.html' title='Why'/><author><name>Trenton Powers-Mellencamp</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02890452025044001110</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='23' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_EOx9wP3Fj10/SbxZzOYEUTI/AAAAAAAAAG0/_xl59Z4YNjo/S220/policesketch.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7061490172150208439.post-1790588203886945462</id><published>2010-06-06T17:12:00.001-06:00</published><updated>2010-06-06T20:20:40.588-06:00</updated><title type='text'>Standing with our president to wish the Queen of England a happy birthday</title><content type='html'>Happy Birthday Queen of England.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; I hope your birthday in April was as momentous as the one you had &lt;a href="http://washreport.com/go.php?bWlkZGxlZWFzdCxvcmd8fG1lcnx8aHR0cDovL293Lmx5LzE3RHQyUXx8IFF1ZWVuJ3MgYmlydGhkYXkgZ2FmZmUgbGVhdmVzIEhpbGxhcnlyZWQgZmFjZWQgaHR0cDovL293Lmx5LzE3RHQyUQ=="&gt;yesterday&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;On a seperate but related note, I hope President Obama got her something thoughtful and cool for her birthday this year.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Maybe something like a shop vac.&amp;nbsp; It is very utilitarian like the Queen herself.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7061490172150208439-1790588203886945462?l=trentonpowers.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://trentonpowers.blogspot.com/feeds/1790588203886945462/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://trentonpowers.blogspot.com/2010/06/standing-with-our-president-to-wish.html#comment-form' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7061490172150208439/posts/default/1790588203886945462'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7061490172150208439/posts/default/1790588203886945462'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://trentonpowers.blogspot.com/2010/06/standing-with-our-president-to-wish.html' title='Standing with our president to wish the Queen of England a happy birthday'/><author><name>Trenton Powers-Mellencamp</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02890452025044001110</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='23' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_EOx9wP3Fj10/SbxZzOYEUTI/AAAAAAAAAG0/_xl59Z4YNjo/S220/policesketch.jpg'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7061490172150208439.post-891178411827093148</id><published>2010-06-05T21:56:00.000-06:00</published><updated>2010-06-05T21:56:42.179-06:00</updated><title type='text'>Information Request</title><content type='html'>Does anyone know what all this hoopla over Helen Thomas is about?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It seems like the wingnutosphere is all up in arms about something she did or said.&amp;nbsp; Problem is I cant find anything about it. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I looked all over the reputable news sites (like &lt;a href="http://www.cnn.com/search/?query=helen%20thomas&amp;amp;primaryType=mixed&amp;amp;sortBy=date&amp;amp;intl=false"&gt;CNN&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://www.cbsnews.com/1770-5_162-0.html?query=helen+thomas&amp;amp;tag=srch&amp;amp;searchtype=cbsSearch"&gt;CBS&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href="http://abcnews.go.com/search?searchtext=helen%20thomas"&gt;ABCnews&lt;/a&gt;) and nothing.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This reeks of another witch hunt. &amp;nbsp; It is absolutely reprehensible the lengths some people will go to destroy a sweet little old lady.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7061490172150208439-891178411827093148?l=trentonpowers.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://trentonpowers.blogspot.com/feeds/891178411827093148/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://trentonpowers.blogspot.com/2010/06/information-request.html#comment-form' title='4 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7061490172150208439/posts/default/891178411827093148'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7061490172150208439/posts/default/891178411827093148'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://trentonpowers.blogspot.com/2010/06/information-request.html' title='Information Request'/><author><name>Trenton Powers-Mellencamp</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02890452025044001110</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='23' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_EOx9wP3Fj10/SbxZzOYEUTI/AAAAAAAAAG0/_xl59Z4YNjo/S220/policesketch.jpg'/></author><thr:total>4</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7061490172150208439.post-2648215057531997056</id><published>2010-06-01T19:41:00.001-06:00</published><updated>2010-06-01T19:41:58.041-06:00</updated><title type='text'>Another no-bailout-taking automaker under investigation for stuck gas pedal problems</title><content type='html'>Dont get me wrong.&amp;nbsp; I'm no fan of &lt;a href="http://www.foxnews.com/leisure/2010/06/01/ford-facing-stuck-gas-pedal-investigation/?test=latestnews"&gt;the Ford&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But it is interesting that another of GM and Chrysler's chief competitors is the subject of a federal probe into sticking gas pedal issues.&amp;nbsp; This is why we need&amp;nbsp; government control over auto manufacturers.&amp;nbsp; You don't hear about Chevy gas pedals sticking.&amp;nbsp; You dont hear about Dodge gas pedals sticking.&amp;nbsp; You know why?&amp;nbsp; Because of government!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Incidentally, I think it's high time that the government take a look into Daihatsu.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; Their gas pedals are always sticking.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; Seriously guys, "Daihatsu" is the Chinese word for "death trap".&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7061490172150208439-2648215057531997056?l=trentonpowers.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://trentonpowers.blogspot.com/feeds/2648215057531997056/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://trentonpowers.blogspot.com/2010/06/another-no-bailout-taking-automaker.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7061490172150208439/posts/default/2648215057531997056'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7061490172150208439/posts/default/2648215057531997056'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://trentonpowers.blogspot.com/2010/06/another-no-bailout-taking-automaker.html' title='Another no-bailout-taking automaker under investigation for stuck gas pedal problems'/><author><name>Trenton Powers-Mellencamp</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02890452025044001110</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='23' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_EOx9wP3Fj10/SbxZzOYEUTI/AAAAAAAAAG0/_xl59Z4YNjo/S220/policesketch.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7061490172150208439.post-7955035134864716197</id><published>2010-05-24T09:29:00.001-06:00</published><updated>2010-05-24T09:30:01.697-06:00</updated><title type='text'>Meanwhile in Siberia</title><content type='html'>Was Al Gore in town?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_EOx9wP3Fj10/S_qZ8dINZMI/AAAAAAAAAOs/pG3k0x0uyzE/s1600/IMG_0035.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_EOx9wP3Fj10/S_qZ8dINZMI/AAAAAAAAAOs/pG3k0x0uyzE/s320/IMG_0035.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;FWIW, local temperatures yesterday were in the mid-60s.  Mid-70's a few days ago.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_EOx9wP3Fj10/S_qaEaKs7SI/AAAAAAAAAO0/FSzSqP8_KKs/s1600/IMG_0036.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_EOx9wP3Fj10/S_qaEaKs7SI/AAAAAAAAAO0/FSzSqP8_KKs/s320/IMG_0036.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This is why I wont mow the lawn today.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7061490172150208439-7955035134864716197?l=trentonpowers.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://trentonpowers.blogspot.com/feeds/7955035134864716197/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://trentonpowers.blogspot.com/2010/05/meanwhile-in-siberia.html#comment-form' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7061490172150208439/posts/default/7955035134864716197'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7061490172150208439/posts/default/7955035134864716197'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://trentonpowers.blogspot.com/2010/05/meanwhile-in-siberia.html' title='Meanwhile in Siberia'/><author><name>Trenton Powers-Mellencamp</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02890452025044001110</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='23' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_EOx9wP3Fj10/SbxZzOYEUTI/AAAAAAAAAG0/_xl59Z4YNjo/S220/policesketch.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_EOx9wP3Fj10/S_qZ8dINZMI/AAAAAAAAAOs/pG3k0x0uyzE/s72-c/IMG_0035.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7061490172150208439.post-1631993883281529076</id><published>2010-05-22T18:12:00.001-06:00</published><updated>2010-05-22T18:20:05.508-06:00</updated><title type='text'>Massive turnout at todays Coffee Party in SLC.  You should have seen it!</title><content type='html'>Photo courtesy &lt;a href="http://www.ksl.com/?nid=148&amp;amp;sid=10879769"&gt;of KSL.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_EOx9wP3Fj10/S_hyKK2-ANI/AAAAAAAAAOk/EXfn4lXPNBY/s1600/coffee.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_EOx9wP3Fj10/S_hyKK2-ANI/AAAAAAAAAOk/EXfn4lXPNBY/s320/coffee.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The atmosphere was absolutely electric.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Incidentally, this was the second&lt;a href="http://www.ksl.com/?nid=148&amp;amp;sid=10735002"&gt; Coffee Party &lt;/a&gt;story in the past 11 days on KSL. &amp;nbsp; This thing is really taking off.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7061490172150208439-1631993883281529076?l=trentonpowers.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://trentonpowers.blogspot.com/feeds/1631993883281529076/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://trentonpowers.blogspot.com/2010/05/massive-turnout-at-todays-coffee-party.html#comment-form' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7061490172150208439/posts/default/1631993883281529076'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7061490172150208439/posts/default/1631993883281529076'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://trentonpowers.blogspot.com/2010/05/massive-turnout-at-todays-coffee-party.html' title='Massive turnout at todays Coffee Party in SLC.  You should have seen it!'/><author><name>Trenton Powers-Mellencamp</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02890452025044001110</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='23' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_EOx9wP3Fj10/SbxZzOYEUTI/AAAAAAAAAG0/_xl59Z4YNjo/S220/policesketch.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_EOx9wP3Fj10/S_hyKK2-ANI/AAAAAAAAAOk/EXfn4lXPNBY/s72-c/coffee.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7061490172150208439.post-2649955475240202306</id><published>2010-05-16T16:17:00.000-06:00</published><updated>2010-05-16T16:17:14.978-06:00</updated><title type='text'>To honor the memory of Ronnie James Dio</title><content type='html'>I'm going to drop my windows, open the sun roof and&amp;nbsp;blast Holy Diver at at 75% volume on my way home for work tonight.&amp;nbsp; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Maybe &lt;a href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_obit_ronnie_james_dio"&gt;Stargazer&lt;/a&gt; too, depending on traffic.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7061490172150208439-2649955475240202306?l=trentonpowers.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://trentonpowers.blogspot.com/feeds/2649955475240202306/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://trentonpowers.blogspot.com/2010/05/to-honor-memory-of-ronnie-james-dio.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7061490172150208439/posts/default/2649955475240202306'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7061490172150208439/posts/default/2649955475240202306'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://trentonpowers.blogspot.com/2010/05/to-honor-memory-of-ronnie-james-dio.html' title='To honor the memory of Ronnie James Dio'/><author><name>Trenton Powers-Mellencamp</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02890452025044001110</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='23' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_EOx9wP3Fj10/SbxZzOYEUTI/AAAAAAAAAG0/_xl59Z4YNjo/S220/policesketch.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7061490172150208439.post-2329906522940229482</id><published>2010-05-15T19:11:00.001-06:00</published><updated>2010-05-15T19:12:57.631-06:00</updated><title type='text'>Epic Fartcan</title><content type='html'>Greatest Kia mod ever.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object height="385" width="480"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/cRafpr_eI0I&amp;amp;hl=en_US&amp;amp;fs=1&amp;amp;"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/cRafpr_eI0I&amp;amp;hl=en_US&amp;amp;fs=1&amp;amp;" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="480" height="385"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;At least I think it was a Kia.&amp;nbsp; I'm not sure because I could not take my eyes off that tail pipe.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7061490172150208439-2329906522940229482?l=trentonpowers.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://trentonpowers.blogspot.com/feeds/2329906522940229482/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://trentonpowers.blogspot.com/2010/05/epic-fartcan.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7061490172150208439/posts/default/2329906522940229482'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7061490172150208439/posts/default/2329906522940229482'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://trentonpowers.blogspot.com/2010/05/epic-fartcan.html' title='Epic Fartcan'/><author><name>Trenton Powers-Mellencamp</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02890452025044001110</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='23' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_EOx9wP3Fj10/SbxZzOYEUTI/AAAAAAAAAG0/_xl59Z4YNjo/S220/policesketch.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7061490172150208439.post-4616091345192971989</id><published>2010-05-12T20:29:00.000-06:00</published><updated>2010-05-12T20:29:25.697-06:00</updated><title type='text'>I think President Obama hit this one right out of the ball park</title><content type='html'>Elena Kagan is everything you want in a supreme court justice.&amp;nbsp; She's a woman,&amp;nbsp; she's super progressive, she's real smart and her selection proves that President Obama cares about the transgendered set.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Elena Kagan: the peoples supreme court justice.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_EOx9wP3Fj10/S-tj4U6yZZI/AAAAAAAAAOc/JND7QbXvWrc/s1600/kagan.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_EOx9wP3Fj10/S-tj4U6yZZI/AAAAAAAAAOc/JND7QbXvWrc/s320/kagan.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7061490172150208439-4616091345192971989?l=trentonpowers.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://trentonpowers.blogspot.com/feeds/4616091345192971989/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://trentonpowers.blogspot.com/2010/05/i-think-president-obama-hit-this-one.html#comment-form' title='6 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7061490172150208439/posts/default/4616091345192971989'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7061490172150208439/posts/default/4616091345192971989'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://trentonpowers.blogspot.com/2010/05/i-think-president-obama-hit-this-one.html' title='I think President Obama hit this one right out of the ball park'/><author><name>Trenton Powers-Mellencamp</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02890452025044001110</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='23' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_EOx9wP3Fj10/SbxZzOYEUTI/AAAAAAAAAG0/_xl59Z4YNjo/S220/policesketch.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_EOx9wP3Fj10/S-tj4U6yZZI/AAAAAAAAAOc/JND7QbXvWrc/s72-c/kagan.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>6</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7061490172150208439.post-6755449769816796988</id><published>2010-05-09T21:33:00.000-06:00</published><updated>2010-05-09T21:33:09.971-06:00</updated><title type='text'>Rhetorical</title><content type='html'>Do you think Sandra Bullock's perky, upturned nose will droop and sag as she gets older?&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7061490172150208439-6755449769816796988?l=trentonpowers.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://trentonpowers.blogspot.com/feeds/6755449769816796988/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://trentonpowers.blogspot.com/2010/05/rhetorical.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7061490172150208439/posts/default/6755449769816796988'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7061490172150208439/posts/default/6755449769816796988'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://trentonpowers.blogspot.com/2010/05/rhetorical.html' title='Rhetorical'/><author><name>Trenton Powers-Mellencamp</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02890452025044001110</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='23' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_EOx9wP3Fj10/SbxZzOYEUTI/AAAAAAAAAG0/_xl59Z4YNjo/S220/policesketch.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7061490172150208439.post-7261220702267310068</id><published>2010-05-09T08:46:00.000-06:00</published><updated>2010-05-09T08:46:45.258-06:00</updated><title type='text'>I'd take this as a strong indication of a cyber attack on Wall Street</title><content type='html'>I'd say it was either the &lt;a href="http://washington%20--%20the%20white%20house's%20homeland%20security%20and%20counterterrorism%20adviser%20says%20there%20is%20no%20evidence%20that%20a%20cyber%20attack%20was%20behind%20the%20chaos%20that%20shook%20wall%20street%20last%20thursday./"&gt;Chinese&lt;/a&gt; or the Mexicans&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;WASHINGTON -- The White House's homeland security and counterterrorism adviser says there is no evidence that a cyber attack was behind the chaos that shook Wall Street last Thursday. &lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7061490172150208439-7261220702267310068?l=trentonpowers.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://trentonpowers.blogspot.com/feeds/7261220702267310068/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://trentonpowers.blogspot.com/2010/05/id-take-this-as-strong-indication-of.html#comment-form' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7061490172150208439/posts/default/7261220702267310068'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7061490172150208439/posts/default/7261220702267310068'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://trentonpowers.blogspot.com/2010/05/id-take-this-as-strong-indication-of.html' title='I&apos;d take this as a strong indication of a cyber attack on Wall Street'/><author><name>Trenton Powers-Mellencamp</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02890452025044001110</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='23' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_EOx9wP3Fj10/SbxZzOYEUTI/AAAAAAAAAG0/_xl59Z4YNjo/S220/policesketch.jpg'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7061490172150208439.post-1684646666543073440</id><published>2010-05-09T07:49:00.000-06:00</published><updated>2010-05-09T07:49:13.317-06:00</updated><title type='text'>No resident of Cody, Wyoming will ever admit this...</title><content type='html'>There is strong evidence that Buffalo Bill Cody soiled his pants during his first encounter with Porter Rockwell.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7061490172150208439-1684646666543073440?l=trentonpowers.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://trentonpowers.blogspot.com/feeds/1684646666543073440/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://trentonpowers.blogspot.com/2010/05/no-resident-of-cody-wyoming-will-ever.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7061490172150208439/posts/default/1684646666543073440'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7061490172150208439/posts/default/1684646666543073440'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://trentonpowers.blogspot.com/2010/05/no-resident-of-cody-wyoming-will-ever.html' title='No resident of Cody, Wyoming will ever admit this...'/><author><name>Trenton Powers-Mellencamp</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02890452025044001110</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='23' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_EOx9wP3Fj10/SbxZzOYEUTI/AAAAAAAAAG0/_xl59Z4YNjo/S220/policesketch.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7061490172150208439.post-7761588726420812355</id><published>2010-05-08T21:23:00.006-06:00</published><updated>2010-05-08T21:50:23.119-06:00</updated><title type='text'>As expected, C. Montgomery Burns will not be reelected to the senate...</title><content type='html'>Nor will Senator &lt;a href="http://www.ksl.com/?nid=148&amp;amp;sid=10699757"&gt;Bob Bennett&lt;/a&gt; (pictured below)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_EOx9wP3Fj10/S-YpjZ7t7iI/AAAAAAAAAOU/mBnKclrOAzQ/s1600/burns.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_EOx9wP3Fj10/S-YpjZ7t7iI/AAAAAAAAAOU/mBnKclrOAzQ/s320/burns.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This sets the stage for interesting electoral battle between Tim Bridgewater, who hates Mexicans, and Mike Lee who calls me every Monday between 1pm and 3pm to personally ask for my support.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Incidentally, I once tried suggesting to Mike Lee that he invest some of his campaign cash in one of those robo-call machines to save himself some time and energy, but he wouldn't shut up long enough to listen.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7061490172150208439-7761588726420812355?l=trentonpowers.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://trentonpowers.blogspot.com/feeds/7761588726420812355/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://trentonpowers.blogspot.com/2010/05/as-predicted-c-montgomery-burns-will.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7061490172150208439/posts/default/7761588726420812355'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7061490172150208439/posts/default/7761588726420812355'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://trentonpowers.blogspot.com/2010/05/as-predicted-c-montgomery-burns-will.html' title='As expected, C. Montgomery Burns will not be reelected to the senate...'/><author><name>Trenton Powers-Mellencamp</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02890452025044001110</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='23' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_EOx9wP3Fj10/SbxZzOYEUTI/AAAAAAAAAG0/_xl59Z4YNjo/S220/policesketch.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_EOx9wP3Fj10/S-YpjZ7t7iI/AAAAAAAAAOU/mBnKclrOAzQ/s72-c/burns.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7061490172150208439.post-1713007027115738577</id><published>2010-05-07T19:17:00.001-06:00</published><updated>2010-05-08T07:51:15.737-06:00</updated><title type='text'>Non Man Caused Disasters</title><content type='html'>What a bad month for Tennessee.&amp;nbsp; First all that oil washing up on their shores and now the flooding.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Good thing I dont live there these days.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;UPDATE (5/8/2010):&amp;nbsp; Now they're saying that a &lt;a href="http://www.foxnews.com/us/2010/05/07/robots-working-position-giant-box-oil-spewing-gulf-mexico-work-ahead/"&gt;methane bubble&lt;/a&gt; caused that explosion that even now has oil washing up on the shores of Nashville.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7061490172150208439-1713007027115738577?l=trentonpowers.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://trentonpowers.blogspot.com/feeds/1713007027115738577/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://trentonpowers.blogspot.com/2010/05/non-man-caused-disasters.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7061490172150208439/posts/default/1713007027115738577'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7061490172150208439/posts/default/1713007027115738577'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://trentonpowers.blogspot.com/2010/05/non-man-caused-disasters.html' title='Non Man Caused Disasters'/><author><name>Trenton Powers-Mellencamp</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02890452025044001110</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='23' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_EOx9wP3Fj10/SbxZzOYEUTI/AAAAAAAAAG0/_xl59Z4YNjo/S220/policesketch.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7061490172150208439.post-4183929004185014454</id><published>2010-04-17T06:27:00.000-06:00</published><updated>2010-04-17T06:27:56.959-06:00</updated><title type='text'>I have a way with the women</title><content type='html'>Transcript of an actual conversation I had with a hot chick yesterday.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;She:&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;nbsp; Hows it going?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Me:&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;nbsp; Not bad.&amp;nbsp; What have you been up to?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;She:&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;nbsp; Nothing much, really.&amp;nbsp; Guess what?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Me:&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;nbsp; You're pregnant?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;She:&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;nbsp; NO!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Me:&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;nbsp; Oh.&amp;nbsp; Well I've been telling people you're pregnant.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;She:&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;nbsp; I can't be pregnant.&amp;nbsp; I have one of those...IDU's....IUD's...whatever they're called.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Me:&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;nbsp; Oh, you mean an IED?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;She:&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;nbsp; IED?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Me:&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;nbsp; Yeah.&amp;nbsp; Inter e-u-t-e-r-i-n-e device&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;She:&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;nbsp; That's it.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; I have one of those.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Me:&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;nbsp; They're not foolproof.&amp;nbsp; You could still get pregnant.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7061490172150208439-4183929004185014454?l=trentonpowers.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://trentonpowers.blogspot.com/feeds/4183929004185014454/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://trentonpowers.blogspot.com/2010/04/i-have-way-with-women.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7061490172150208439/posts/default/4183929004185014454'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7061490172150208439/posts/default/4183929004185014454'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://trentonpowers.blogspot.com/2010/04/i-have-way-with-women.html' title='I have a way with the women'/><author><name>Trenton Powers-Mellencamp</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02890452025044001110</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='23' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_EOx9wP3Fj10/SbxZzOYEUTI/AAAAAAAAAG0/_xl59Z4YNjo/S220/policesketch.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7061490172150208439.post-4051688317883579332</id><published>2010-04-16T21:19:00.003-06:00</published><updated>2010-04-16T21:22:46.217-06:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Randy Rasmussen:  Long Haul Trucker'/><title type='text'>Randy Rasmussen:  Part VI</title><content type='html'>&lt;b&gt;Opening Crawl&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Chapter VI&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The Quantum Distortion&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;It is a period of economic turmoil and uncertainty.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Competing&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;carriers &amp;nbsp; and&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;long-haul&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;freelancers&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;in&amp;nbsp; '08&amp;nbsp;won&amp;nbsp;a progressive victory, a referendum&amp;nbsp;of&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Bush's archaic, failed&amp;nbsp;national&amp;nbsp;transportation&amp;nbsp;policy.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;In a seemingly unrelated development,&amp;nbsp;the intrepid&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;trucker:&amp;nbsp; Randy&amp;nbsp; Rasmussen,&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; speeds&amp;nbsp; across&amp;nbsp; the&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;barren wastes of&amp;nbsp;eastern Nevada, custodian&amp;nbsp; of&amp;nbsp; a &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;high&amp;nbsp; value&amp;nbsp; cargo of soy and gum arabic destined&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;for&amp;nbsp;north-central Cheyennes eraser conglomerates.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Pursued&amp;nbsp; by the sinister progeny&amp;nbsp; of&amp;nbsp; the&amp;nbsp; tragically&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;deceased&amp;nbsp;trucker&amp;nbsp; Dick Augney, and&amp;nbsp; stalked by&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;voluptuous &amp;nbsp;long-haul &amp;nbsp;banshee 'Sweaty' &amp;nbsp;Negretti,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Randy Rasmussen unknowingly&amp;nbsp;encounters &amp;nbsp;a tear&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;in the very fabric of space and time . . . . . . . . . .&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;(Scene 1:&amp;nbsp; Pan downward from opening crawl to a custom Peterbilt approaching&amp;nbsp; a poorly lit&amp;nbsp;UHP weigh station on the southern Utah / Arizona border.&amp;nbsp; The rig rolls to a stop and after a moment, our hero opens the door and climbs down to the recently repaved tarmac.&amp;nbsp; Stretching his back and stiffling a yawn, Randy strides toward the weigh station office)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Randy "Dave" Rasmussen:&lt;/strong&gt; (to the desk clerk)&amp;nbsp; Hiya doin?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Trooper Clyde Barnett:&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;nbsp; Good morning sir, what can I do for you?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Randy:&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;nbsp; Well son, I got me a load of soy and gum arabic for one of those eraser factories in Wyoming and I sure as hell mean to see it through by dawn, but I gotta take me a leak.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Trooper Clyde:&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;nbsp; Down the hall...to your right.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;(Cut to scene 2:&amp;nbsp; Inside a custom Keworth somewhere in the Arizona badlands, 'Sweaty' Alice Negretti, clad resplendently&amp;nbsp;in a pair of black leather hotpants and nothing else, sleeps fitfully)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;'Sweaty' Alice Negretti:&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;nbsp; (talking in her sleep)&amp;nbsp; Sonofabitch.....why wont you take me?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;(Cut to scene 3:&amp;nbsp; moments later inside the St George weigh station)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Randy:&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;nbsp; Godamighty my pants fit better now.&amp;nbsp; Thank you, kind sir.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Trooper Clyde:&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;nbsp; (nods)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Randy:&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;Say, what time you got?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Trooper Clyde:&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;nbsp; (checks his watch)&amp;nbsp; Just about&amp;nbsp;one a.m., sir.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Randy:&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;nbsp; (stunned)&amp;nbsp; What?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Trooper Clyde:&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;nbsp; I said it's just about one, sir.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;Sir?&amp;nbsp; Sir, are you all right?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Randy:&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;nbsp; Trooper, are you sure about the time?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Trooper Clyde:&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;nbsp; Yes sir.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Randy:&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;nbsp; But thats impossible.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; There's no way...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Trooper Clyde:&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;nbsp; Huh?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Randy:&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;nbsp; Son,&amp;nbsp; I rented me a girl tonight in Mesquite and I left as soon as I was done.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Trooper Clyde:&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;nbsp; (stares)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Randy:&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;nbsp; That was forty five&amp;nbsp;minutes ago....at eleven o'clock.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Trooper Clyde:&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;nbsp; (stares)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Randy:&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;nbsp; Damn it, man.&amp;nbsp; Don't you get it?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Trooper Clyde:&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;nbsp; (stares)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Randy:&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;nbsp; Ever been to Mesquite, son?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Trooper Clyde:&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;nbsp; All the time sir,&amp;nbsp; my sister lives there.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Randy:&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;nbsp; How long is the drive?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Trooper Clyde:&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;nbsp; Thirty...forty five minutes at most.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Randy:&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;nbsp; Don't you see?&amp;nbsp; I left forty five minutes ago!&amp;nbsp; AT ELEVEN O'CLOCK!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Trooper Clyde:&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;nbsp; (stares and blinks twice)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Randy:&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;nbsp; Look at my watch, man!&amp;nbsp; Look!&amp;nbsp; It says&amp;nbsp;11:56!&amp;nbsp; How the hell do you figure it's almost one a.m.?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Trooper Clyde:&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;nbsp; (blinks)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Randy:&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;nbsp; Oh I get it.&amp;nbsp; You're in on this too!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Trooper Clyde:&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;nbsp; (stares)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Randy:&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;nbsp; God as my witness, I will figure out whats going on here.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; It's got to be some sort of quantum displacement.&amp;nbsp; Some&amp;nbsp;kind of rupture in the fabric of space and time&amp;nbsp;maybe. I dont know much about that kinda stuff but I will figure out whats going on.&amp;nbsp; And when I do....&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Trooper Clyde:&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;nbsp; Ok sir.&amp;nbsp; Have a good night, sir.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;(Randy backs out slowly and once out of Trooper Clyde's line of sight, sprints to the safety of his Peterbilt, determined more than ever to see his precious cargo delivered on time to Cheyenne)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7061490172150208439-4051688317883579332?l=trentonpowers.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://trentonpowers.blogspot.com/feeds/4051688317883579332/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://trentonpowers.blogspot.com/2010/04/randy-rasmussen-part-vi.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7061490172150208439/posts/default/4051688317883579332'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7061490172150208439/posts/default/4051688317883579332'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://trentonpowers.blogspot.com/2010/04/randy-rasmussen-part-vi.html' title='Randy Rasmussen:  Part VI'/><author><name>Trenton Powers-Mellencamp</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02890452025044001110</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='23' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_EOx9wP3Fj10/SbxZzOYEUTI/AAAAAAAAAG0/_xl59Z4YNjo/S220/policesketch.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7061490172150208439.post-8347151645767096688</id><published>2010-04-16T11:13:00.000-06:00</published><updated>2010-04-16T11:13:07.720-06:00</updated><title type='text'>Information Request</title><content type='html'>Russia has apparently &lt;a href="http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/russia-freezes-us-adoptions-wake-adoption-fiasco/story?id=10380318"&gt;suspended&lt;/a&gt; adoptions to the US.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I dont really care about that.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;My concern is with whether this suspension includes mail order brides.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; Because if it does, it looks like the future Mrs. Powers will probably have to be from Thailand.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7061490172150208439-8347151645767096688?l=trentonpowers.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://trentonpowers.blogspot.com/feeds/8347151645767096688/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://trentonpowers.blogspot.com/2010/04/information-request.html#comment-form' title='5 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7061490172150208439/posts/default/8347151645767096688'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7061490172150208439/posts/default/8347151645767096688'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://trentonpowers.blogspot.com/2010/04/information-request.html' title='Information Request'/><author><name>Trenton Powers-Mellencamp</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02890452025044001110</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='23' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_EOx9wP3Fj10/SbxZzOYEUTI/AAAAAAAAAG0/_xl59Z4YNjo/S220/policesketch.jpg'/></author><thr:total>5</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7061490172150208439.post-990869992923549114</id><published>2010-04-13T12:21:00.002-06:00</published><updated>2010-04-13T12:21:47.425-06:00</updated><title type='text'>Not that there is anything wrong here...</title><content type='html'>But someone has to be the first to point out that before his career in politics,&lt;a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/04/13/AR2010041302257_pf.html"&gt; Eric Massa&lt;/a&gt; was a long haul trucker.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7061490172150208439-990869992923549114?l=trentonpowers.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://trentonpowers.blogspot.com/feeds/990869992923549114/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://trentonpowers.blogspot.com/2010/04/not-that-there-is-anything-wrong-here.html#comment-form' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7061490172150208439/posts/default/990869992923549114'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7061490172150208439/posts/default/990869992923549114'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://trentonpowers.blogspot.com/2010/04/not-that-there-is-anything-wrong-here.html' title='Not that there is anything wrong here...'/><author><name>Trenton Powers-Mellencamp</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02890452025044001110</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='23' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_EOx9wP3Fj10/SbxZzOYEUTI/AAAAAAAAAG0/_xl59Z4YNjo/S220/policesketch.jpg'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7061490172150208439.post-2597225853927095106</id><published>2010-04-12T21:00:00.000-06:00</published><updated>2010-04-12T21:00:06.414-06:00</updated><title type='text'>Aww Crap, Manny!   Bogey at nine o'clock!</title><content type='html'>And he's smokin&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_EOx9wP3Fj10/S8PdiKPxOUI/AAAAAAAAAOM/bTnF5sMiD8Q/s1600/bogey4b.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_EOx9wP3Fj10/S8PdiKPxOUI/AAAAAAAAAOM/bTnF5sMiD8Q/s320/bogey4b.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7061490172150208439-2597225853927095106?l=trentonpowers.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://trentonpowers.blogspot.com/feeds/2597225853927095106/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://trentonpowers.blogspot.com/2010/04/aww-crap-manny-bogey-at-nine-oclock.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7061490172150208439/posts/default/2597225853927095106'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7061490172150208439/posts/default/2597225853927095106'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://trentonpowers.blogspot.com/2010/04/aww-crap-manny-bogey-at-nine-oclock.html' title='Aww Crap, Manny!   Bogey at nine o&apos;clock!'/><author><name>Trenton Powers-Mellencamp</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02890452025044001110</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='23' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_EOx9wP3Fj10/SbxZzOYEUTI/AAAAAAAAAG0/_xl59Z4YNjo/S220/policesketch.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_EOx9wP3Fj10/S8PdiKPxOUI/AAAAAAAAAOM/bTnF5sMiD8Q/s72-c/bogey4b.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7061490172150208439.post-5524228505023834897</id><published>2010-04-10T06:42:00.000-06:00</published><updated>2010-04-10T06:42:39.496-06:00</updated><title type='text'>I'm going to jump ahead of the pack and say what everyone else is thinking</title><content type='html'>Polands president was &lt;a href="http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/europe/04/10/poland.president.plane.crash/index.html?hpt=T1"&gt;killed&lt;/a&gt; by the Russians.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Thats right.&amp;nbsp; It was a hit.&amp;nbsp; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Remember, I said it first.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7061490172150208439-5524228505023834897?l=trentonpowers.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://trentonpowers.blogspot.com/feeds/5524228505023834897/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://trentonpowers.blogspot.com/2010/04/im-going-to-jump-ahead-of-pack-and-say.html#comment-form' title='5 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7061490172150208439/posts/default/5524228505023834897'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7061490172150208439/posts/default/5524228505023834897'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://trentonpowers.blogspot.com/2010/04/im-going-to-jump-ahead-of-pack-and-say.html' title='I&apos;m going to jump ahead of the pack and say what everyone else is thinking'/><author><name>Trenton Powers-Mellencamp</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02890452025044001110</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='23' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_EOx9wP3Fj10/SbxZzOYEUTI/AAAAAAAAAG0/_xl59Z4YNjo/S220/policesketch.jpg'/></author><thr:total>5</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7061490172150208439.post-4290219720238620537</id><published>2010-04-09T20:33:00.003-06:00</published><updated>2010-04-09T21:27:36.413-06:00</updated><title type='text'>Its not important anyway because nobody watches baseball.</title><content type='html'>Also FYI&lt;br /&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt; RSL:&amp;nbsp; Still MLS champs&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Ben Roethlisberger: Still a pervert&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt; New Orleans:&amp;nbsp; Still the Aints&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Patti Russo:&amp;nbsp; Still fuggin' hot&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Kevin&lt;a href="http://www.ksl.com/?sid=9999253&amp;amp;nid=148"&gt; Garn&lt;/a&gt;:&amp;nbsp; Still the Utah Republican hot tub mac daddy&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;PLEASE for the love of God, PLEASE check references when you're hiring a spiritual healer, it may seem like a hassle now...&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div id="kslvid10318515" style="border: 0pt none; margin: 0pt; outline: 0pt none; padding: 0pt;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;script src="http://pandora.bonnint.net/video/embed-p.php?id=10318515" type="text/javascript"&gt;&lt;/script&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="border: 0pt none; font-size: 0.75em; margin: 0pt; outline: 0pt none; padding: 0pt; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline; width: 424px;"&gt;Video Courtesy of &lt;a href="http://www.ksl.com/"&gt;KSL.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7061490172150208439-4290219720238620537?l=trentonpowers.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://trentonpowers.blogspot.com/feeds/4290219720238620537/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://trentonpowers.blogspot.com/2010/04/its-not-important-anyway-because-nobody.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7061490172150208439/posts/default/4290219720238620537'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7061490172150208439/posts/default/4290219720238620537'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://trentonpowers.blogspot.com/2010/04/its-not-important-anyway-because-nobody.html' title='Its not important anyway because nobody watches baseball.'/><author><name>Trenton Powers-Mellencamp</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02890452025044001110</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='23' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_EOx9wP3Fj10/SbxZzOYEUTI/AAAAAAAAAG0/_xl59Z4YNjo/S220/policesketch.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7061490172150208439.post-4719931501358127565</id><published>2010-04-07T08:57:00.000-06:00</published><updated>2010-04-07T08:57:43.819-06:00</updated><title type='text'>The overlooked race angle in the raging debate about President Obama's baseball prowess</title><content type='html'>One point that is being completely overlooked in the controversy about President Obama's alleged girly throwing mechanics or his alleged lack of knowledge of anything baseball, is the fact that the sport isn't really inclusive to the black community.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7061490172150208439-4719931501358127565?l=trentonpowers.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://trentonpowers.blogspot.com/feeds/4719931501358127565/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://trentonpowers.blogspot.com/2010/04/overlooked-race-angle-in-raging-debate.html#comment-form' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7061490172150208439/posts/default/4719931501358127565'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7061490172150208439/posts/default/4719931501358127565'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://trentonpowers.blogspot.com/2010/04/overlooked-race-angle-in-raging-debate.html' title='The overlooked race angle in the raging debate about President Obama&apos;s baseball prowess'/><author><name>Trenton Powers-Mellencamp</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02890452025044001110</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='23' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_EOx9wP3Fj10/SbxZzOYEUTI/AAAAAAAAAG0/_xl59Z4YNjo/S220/policesketch.jpg'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7061490172150208439.post-6375773504594434105</id><published>2010-03-20T19:23:00.000-06:00</published><updated>2010-03-20T19:23:56.837-06:00</updated><title type='text'>If NRO (neocon rhetoric organization) wont correct a glaring error at TPM, then I will</title><content type='html'>Usually the neocon hate mongerers at NRO do a better job of correcting progressive news places.&amp;nbsp; Which is why &lt;a href="http://corner.nationalreview.com/post/?q=ODA4NjY5NmNjNTM4OTY1ZTAxMjg3M2QzNDkxYWI1N2M="&gt;this&lt;/a&gt; strikes me as unusual.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;That TPM allegedly takes umbrage at the teabaggers use of the term "faggot" toward Barney Frank is disingenious and has been since Perez Hilton make it okay to say&lt;a href="http://stoptheneocons2008.blogspot.com/2009/06/its-okay-to-say-now.html"&gt; last year&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7061490172150208439-6375773504594434105?l=trentonpowers.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://trentonpowers.blogspot.com/feeds/6375773504594434105/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://trentonpowers.blogspot.com/2010/03/if-nro-neocon-rhetoric-organization.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7061490172150208439/posts/default/6375773504594434105'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7061490172150208439/posts/default/6375773504594434105'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://trentonpowers.blogspot.com/2010/03/if-nro-neocon-rhetoric-organization.html' title='If NRO (neocon rhetoric organization) wont correct a glaring error at TPM, then I will'/><author><name>Trenton Powers-Mellencamp</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02890452025044001110</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='23' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_EOx9wP3Fj10/SbxZzOYEUTI/AAAAAAAAAG0/_xl59Z4YNjo/S220/policesketch.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7061490172150208439.post-1182858596144943610</id><published>2010-03-19T18:42:00.000-06:00</published><updated>2010-03-19T18:42:09.072-06:00</updated><title type='text'>I resent the characterization from the extreme right wing of the blogworld of President Obama as a tyrant...</title><content type='html'>A simple banana republic tyrant.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It's completely unacceptable.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The man is clearly too big a pussy to be labeled a tyrant.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7061490172150208439-1182858596144943610?l=trentonpowers.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://trentonpowers.blogspot.com/feeds/1182858596144943610/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://trentonpowers.blogspot.com/2010/03/i-resent-characterization-from-extreme.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7061490172150208439/posts/default/1182858596144943610'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7061490172150208439/posts/default/1182858596144943610'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://trentonpowers.blogspot.com/2010/03/i-resent-characterization-from-extreme.html' title='I resent the characterization from the extreme right wing of the blogworld of President Obama as a tyrant...'/><author><name>Trenton Powers-Mellencamp</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02890452025044001110</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='23' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_EOx9wP3Fj10/SbxZzOYEUTI/AAAAAAAAAG0/_xl59Z4YNjo/S220/policesketch.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7061490172150208439.post-7625215716095338911</id><published>2010-03-13T14:36:00.015-07:00</published><updated>2010-03-14T06:09:14.019-06:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Randy Rasmussen:  Long Haul Trucker'/><title type='text'>Randy Rasmussen and The Temple of Poon</title><content type='html'>&lt;strong&gt;Prologue:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;There are strange things done on the midnight run by the men who long-haul truck &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Eighteen wheels of steel and behind the wheel are men who love to fuck&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;em&gt;(Scene 1:&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;Camera view fading&amp;nbsp;in from black reveals the dark, smoky confines of a cheesy brothel 35 miles south of Jackpot, Nevada.&amp;nbsp; Broken men idle impatiently on gaudy red velvet couches while an off screen pianist belts out an off-tune rendition of&amp;nbsp; The Sting.&amp;nbsp; Pan to the door which&amp;nbsp;violently&amp;nbsp;crashes open revealing the backlit silhouette of a large angry man...)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;"BIG" DICK AUGNEY:&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; (shouts)&amp;nbsp; Where is that cockmagnet Rasmussen hiding?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;DONNA THE PROPRIETOR:&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;nbsp; (from off-scene) Close the door, Dick.&amp;nbsp; You're lettin' all the warm air out.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;"BIG" DICK:&amp;nbsp;&lt;/strong&gt; (shouts) Where is he?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;(cut to DONNA, proprietor of DONNA'S RANCH)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;DONNA:&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;nbsp; (from off-scene)&amp;nbsp; Jesus, hon.&amp;nbsp; You're actin' a site.&amp;nbsp; Why dontcha take a load off?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;(cut to a haggard and obviously drunk&amp;nbsp;"BIG" DICK AUGNEY, his beer stained Philadelphia Eagles t-shirt several sizes too small for his distended gut)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;"BIG" DICK:&lt;/strong&gt; (stares lewdly at DONNA's gratuitous cleavage)&amp;nbsp; Rasmussen ain't been in tonight?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;DONNA:&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;nbsp; (from off-scene)&amp;nbsp; No.&amp;nbsp; Now would ya close the door, the wind will kill ya!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;"BIG" DICK:&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;nbsp; (looks over the lounge) Hmmmm.&amp;nbsp; Can a fella get some service in here?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;DONNA:&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;nbsp; (moves into frame) Smells like you've had enough to drink tonight, big boy.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;"BIG" DICK:&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;nbsp; You get me wrong, darlin'.&amp;nbsp; I'm looking for service for...my COCK.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;(cue an&amp;nbsp;appropriately&amp;nbsp;sinister chord, trilling on the word "cock")&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;DONNA:&amp;nbsp; &lt;/strong&gt;(making a cud smacking noise with her chewing gum) You got cash?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;"BIG" DICK:&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;nbsp; You got ass?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;DONNA:&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;nbsp; Right this way, baby.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;(DONNA grabs "BIG" DICK AUGNEY by the hand and leads him off-scene)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The long, long&amp;nbsp;maze of&amp;nbsp;lonely highways&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Driven by men down on their luck&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;(Scene 2:&amp;nbsp; Pan down from a dark, starry sky to a poorly maintained gravel lot where a custom Peterbilt Rig grumbles onto the scene and stops with a loud hiss of air brakes.&amp;nbsp; The engine ticks loudly, cooling&amp;nbsp;in the sub-zero temperatures as the drivers side door opens and intrepid long-haul trucker RANDY "DAVE" RASMUSSEN climbs out.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; He strides quickly toward&amp;nbsp;the front door of a seedy, ramshackle joint advertised by a large buzzing neon sign which reads:&amp;nbsp; Donna's Ranch)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;RANDY "DAVE" RASMUSSEN:&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;nbsp; (to himself) Oh boy, I've got to get me some goddamn poontang!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;(Cut to the interior of the brothel.&amp;nbsp; The recently damaged door opens with a grinding squeal.&amp;nbsp; Broken men on gaudy red velvet couches look up at the newcomer before retreating back into the loving embrace of their own sorrows.)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;RANDY:&amp;nbsp; &lt;/strong&gt;(to nobody in particular)&amp;nbsp;This looks like one o' them establishments where a feller like me could get some goddamn poontang on the cheap.&amp;nbsp; That true?&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;(The piano&amp;nbsp;stops playing and is replaced by&amp;nbsp;the gravely, nicotine stressed voice of the pianist)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;HOT CARLA, THE PIANIST:&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;nbsp; You Rasmussen?&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;RANDY:&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;nbsp; Thats right, I am.&amp;nbsp; Randy Rasmussen's muh name.&amp;nbsp; But you can call me Dave.&amp;nbsp; I got me a custom Peterbilt and a double load of brussels sprouts headin' to Salt Lake City, but they don't gotta be there until morning and right now I need me some goddamn poontang!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;HOT CARLA:&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;nbsp; Someone was in here lookin' for ya.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;RANDY:&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;nbsp; Really?&amp;nbsp; Where?&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;HOT CARLA:&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;nbsp; Down the hall.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;(RANDY stares toward a dark&amp;nbsp;hallway)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;RANDY:&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;nbsp; (pointing with his thumb) That hallway right there?&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;HOT CARLA:&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;nbsp; (resumes playing)&amp;nbsp; Yup.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Those sodium lights have seen queer sights&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;But the queerest they ever did see&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;(Scene 3:&amp;nbsp; Inside a darkened corridor in a cheesy brothel somewhere south of Jackpot, Nevada a lone figure surveys events unfolding in the lounge.&amp;nbsp; Clad in a form fitting latex bustier, black thigh-high stockings and stiletto heels and a lacy black thong, statuesque beauty "SWEATY" ALICE NEGRETTI, armed with a bull whip and a small flask of feminine lubricant daintily tucked&amp;nbsp;in the flimsy waistband of her expensive thong patiently awaits her prey)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"&lt;strong&gt;SWEATY" NEGRETTI:&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;nbsp; (under her breath)&amp;nbsp; There you are, you sonofabitch.&amp;nbsp; Come to mama.&amp;nbsp; Come, let me show you what it feels like to be twenty-five again.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;(RANDY "DAVE" RASMUSSEN turns as directed by HOT CARLA, THE PIANIST toward the darkened hallway, where sex crazed vixen "SWEATY" ALICE NEGRETTI awaits, quivering with desire)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;"SWEATY" NEGRETTI:&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;nbsp; (under her breath)&amp;nbsp; Closer you sonofabitch.&amp;nbsp; Follow your meatlance toward mamas mudhole.&amp;nbsp; Thats it.&amp;nbsp; Closer.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;RANDY:&lt;/strong&gt; (stops and stares into the dark intently)&amp;nbsp; Wait a minute!&amp;nbsp; My long-haul trucker senses are tingling.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;"SWEATY" NEGRETTI:&lt;/strong&gt; (under her breath) You sonofabitch.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;("SWEATY" ALICE NEGRETTI steps forward from the shadows, silky, jet black hair flourishing slightly in the breeze from an over head fan.&amp;nbsp; Her ice blue eyes seem to glow with an unnatural light from beneath her leather visor cap)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;"SWEATY" NEGRETTI:&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;nbsp; (spoken seductively) "Dave" Rasmussen!&amp;nbsp; At last we meet.&amp;nbsp; Bring that hog leg over here and let me lather it up with my juices. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;("SWEATY" ALICE NEGRETTI cracks her bullwhip and beckons RANDY "DAVE" RASMUSSEN to come forward.&amp;nbsp; She licks her thick, ruby red lips and motions 'come here' with her index finger)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;RANDY:&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;nbsp; (gulps)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;"SWEATY" NEGRETTI:&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;nbsp; I said now!&amp;nbsp; You sonofabitch.&amp;nbsp; I will have your cock now!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;(Commotion can be heard coming from a room behind "SWEATY" ALICE NEGRETTI")&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;"BIG" DICK:&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;nbsp; (muffled)&amp;nbsp; Whuzzat?&amp;nbsp; Did someone just say "DAVE" Rasumussen is here?&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;RANDY:&lt;/strong&gt; (staring intently at "SWEATY" ALICE NEGRETTI)&amp;nbsp; What are you doing with that whip, Alice?&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;("SWEATY" ALICE NEGRETTI leans forward toward RANDY "DAVE" RASMUSSEN, glances at the bulge in his crotch, then arches her back and slides her hand enticingly&amp;nbsp;down the front of her thong.&amp;nbsp; She&amp;nbsp;withdraws her hand and licks the tip of her middle finger. An exquisitely faint whiff of honey and Atlantic Cod can be detected over the musky lounge odors of smoke and human sweat)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;"SWEATY" NEGRETTI:&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;nbsp; I've never wanted a man like I want you, "Dave".&amp;nbsp; Take me now!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;(More commotion and then a loud crash from the hallway behind "SWEATY" ALICE NEGRETTI)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;"BIG" DICK:&lt;/strong&gt; (shouting drunkenly) Dave!&amp;nbsp; Where you been you ass rascal?&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;("BIG" DICK AUGNEY charges drunkely down the hall toward RANDY "DAVE" RASMUSSEN.&amp;nbsp; He collides with "SWEATY" ALICE NEGRETTI who, weighing over one hundred pounds less than "BIG" DICK AUGNEY is knocked violently aside.&amp;nbsp; Her head connects sharply with a tackily papered wall and she collapses in a heap)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;RANDY:&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;Big &amp;nbsp;Dick!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;"SWEATY" NEGRETTI:&lt;/strong&gt; (before losing consciousness) Sonsabitches.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;(DONNA THE PROPRIETOR, wrapped hastily in a semen stained bed sheet emerges from the room seconds behind "BIG" DICK AUGNEY)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;DONNA:&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;nbsp;(shouting) The fuck is going on out here?&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;(DONNA THE PROPRIETOR stops and stares in horror as "BIG" DICK AUGNEY drops to his knees in front of RANDY "DAVE" RASMUSSEN, fumbles momentarily with his belt and then pulls out RANDY "DAVE" RASMUSSEN's giant flesh pencil)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;"BIG" DICK:&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;nbsp; Oh Jeez, Dave.&amp;nbsp; Its been such a long time.&amp;nbsp; Oh God!&amp;nbsp; Whargarblll...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;("BIG" DICK AUGNEY's last words&amp;nbsp;are muffled as he wraps his hairy, wind chapped&amp;nbsp;trucker lips around RANDY "DAVE" RASMUSSENs swollen meat sickle)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;DONNA:&lt;/strong&gt; (shouting)&amp;nbsp; Hey you boys gotta get a room for that!&amp;nbsp; This here's a respectable establishment!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;RANDY:&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;nbsp; Oh God.&amp;nbsp; Oh Jesus.&amp;nbsp; I'm almost there, Big Dick!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;"BIG" DICK:&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;nbsp; (muffled) wharblgarbl&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;(DONNA THE PROPRIETOR turns her attention to the scantily clad, unconscious mystery woman laying spread eagle on the floor.&amp;nbsp; Although not of the lesbian pursuasion, she can not help but feel aroused as she detects the faint, pleasant odor of cinnamon honey and Alaskan king crab eminating from "SWEATY" ALICE NEGRETTI's meticulously trimmed honey pot)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;DONNA:&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;nbsp; Oh Jesus, darlin'.&amp;nbsp; Are you okay?&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;RANDY:&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;nbsp; Oh Lord.&amp;nbsp; I'm coming.&amp;nbsp; Oh yeah.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;"BIG" DICK:&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;nbsp; (muffled) wharblgarblgarbl.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;DONNA:&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;nbsp; (to the still unconscious "SWEATY" ALICE NEGRETTI) What did those nancy boys do to you, hun?&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;RANDY:&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;nbsp; (yelling) Yaaaarrrrghhhhhhhhhh&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;(a loud pop is heard and camera view fades to black)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Was that night in Donna's Ranch, when with a sperm avalanche&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;"Dave"&amp;nbsp;Rasmussen&amp;nbsp;killed&amp;nbsp;"Big" Dick Augney&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;(Scene 4:&amp;nbsp; Montage showing&amp;nbsp; the aftermath of&amp;nbsp; "BIG" DICK AUGNEY's sperm fueled destruction.&amp;nbsp; Epic 1981 ballad Endless Love by Diana Ross and Lionel Richie plays throughout&amp;nbsp;the montage)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;RANDY:&lt;/strong&gt; (yelling)&amp;nbsp; Yaaaarrrrghhhhhhhhhh&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;(loud pop)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;DONNA:&lt;/strong&gt; (screams)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;(a frothy pink mist of blood, gray matter, and gelatinous jets of man-goo mingle with cigarette smoke in the inadequate fluorescent light)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;(Ranch clientele panic and scatter, tipping over chairs)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;RANDY:&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;nbsp; Unnnnnnnnnnngh&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;(red and blue lights strobe from every direction.&amp;nbsp; DONNA THE PROPRIETOR, still wrapped in a semen stained bed sheet holds a styrofoam cup of bad coffee and speaks with a detective, while in the background, the coroner can be seen loading a body bag laden gurney into the back of a county meat wagon)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;DONNA:&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;nbsp; No.&amp;nbsp; No sir.&amp;nbsp; "Big" Dick, he came all cock hungry at "Dave".&amp;nbsp; Wasn't nowhere "Dave" could go.&amp;nbsp; No sir.&amp;nbsp; No sir.&amp;nbsp; "Dave" didn't look to be fighting back too hard.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;("SWEATY" ALICE NEGRETTI, wrapped in a wool army surplus blanket sits alone on the bumper of an ambulance holding an ice pack to her head)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;"SWEATY" NEGRETTI:&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;nbsp; Sonsabitches!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;(red and blue strobe lights fade out)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;(cut to the interior of DONNA's Ranch where RANDY "DAVE" RASMUSSEN speaks patiently with another detective)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;SIMON FALCO, Elko County Sherrifs Detective:&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;nbsp; Yeah.&amp;nbsp; Yeah.&amp;nbsp; I can see where the pervasive psychological pressures&amp;nbsp;inherent in&amp;nbsp;the long-haul trucking industry could manifest themselves&amp;nbsp;via physical pressure in&amp;nbsp;your urethra.&amp;nbsp; I'm no doctor but it makes perfect sense to me.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;RANDY:&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;nbsp; "Big" Dick...oh God.....he was like a brother to me.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;SIMON FALCO:&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;nbsp; (stares)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;RANDY:&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; Not that I woulda let that happen with my own brother.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;SIMON FALCO:&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;nbsp; (stares)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;RANDY:&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;nbsp; Or my sister, for that matter.&amp;nbsp; Do you need anything else from me, detective Falco?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;SIMON FALCO:&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;nbsp; (looks at his watch) I think we have this all wrapped up.&amp;nbsp; You go ahead and get on out of here.&amp;nbsp; I believe&amp;nbsp;you got &amp;nbsp;somewhere you have to be, right?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;RANDY:&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;nbsp; Yes sir.&amp;nbsp; Them school children in Salt Lake need&amp;nbsp;this load&amp;nbsp;of&amp;nbsp;brussels sprouts and I plan to see them through!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;(...to be continued)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;(Apologies to the estate of Robert Service)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7061490172150208439-7625215716095338911?l=trentonpowers.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://trentonpowers.blogspot.com/feeds/7625215716095338911/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://trentonpowers.blogspot.com/2010/03/randy-rasmussen-and-temple-of-poon.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7061490172150208439/posts/default/7625215716095338911'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7061490172150208439/posts/default/7625215716095338911'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://trentonpowers.blogspot.com/2010/03/randy-rasmussen-and-temple-of-poon.html' title='Randy Rasmussen and The Temple of Poon'/><author><name>Trenton Powers-Mellencamp</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02890452025044001110</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='23' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_EOx9wP3Fj10/SbxZzOYEUTI/AAAAAAAAAG0/_xl59Z4YNjo/S220/policesketch.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7061490172150208439.post-3042997635604176929</id><published>2010-03-13T07:57:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2010-03-13T07:57:00.933-07:00</updated><title type='text'>C. Montgomery Burns files for reelection</title><content type='html'>Its &lt;a href="http://www.ksl.com/?nid=148&amp;amp;sid=9992569"&gt;official now&lt;/a&gt;, whereas prior to now it was not official.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_EOx9wP3Fj10/S5unblYBJtI/AAAAAAAAAOE/Bl_4ENqA4jA/s1600-h/Bob_Bennett.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="200" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_EOx9wP3Fj10/S5unblYBJtI/AAAAAAAAAOE/Bl_4ENqA4jA/s200/Bob_Bennett.jpg" vt="true" width="160" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_EOx9wP3Fj10/S5unZszeqXI/AAAAAAAAAN8/xopzCBxXU1g/s1600-h/burns.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="200" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_EOx9wP3Fj10/S5unZszeqXI/AAAAAAAAAN8/xopzCBxXU1g/s200/burns.jpg" vt="true" width="164" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Also, note his striking resemblance to fictional cartoon character, Senator Bob Bennett.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7061490172150208439-3042997635604176929?l=trentonpowers.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://trentonpowers.blogspot.com/feeds/3042997635604176929/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://trentonpowers.blogspot.com/2010/03/c-montgomery-burns-files-for-reelection.html#comment-form' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7061490172150208439/posts/default/3042997635604176929'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7061490172150208439/posts/default/3042997635604176929'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://trentonpowers.blogspot.com/2010/03/c-montgomery-burns-files-for-reelection.html' title='C. Montgomery Burns files for reelection'/><author><name>Trenton Powers-Mellencamp</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02890452025044001110</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='23' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_EOx9wP3Fj10/SbxZzOYEUTI/AAAAAAAAAG0/_xl59Z4YNjo/S220/policesketch.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_EOx9wP3Fj10/S5unblYBJtI/AAAAAAAAAOE/Bl_4ENqA4jA/s72-c/Bob_Bennett.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7061490172150208439.post-4364736429462899853</id><published>2010-03-04T07:34:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2010-03-04T07:34:05.404-07:00</updated><title type='text'>If I were coordinating an ad campaign to combat negative opinions toward Islam...</title><content type='html'>My slogan would be:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-large;"&gt;Islam!&amp;nbsp; It's da bomb!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7061490172150208439-4364736429462899853?l=trentonpowers.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://trentonpowers.blogspot.com/feeds/4364736429462899853/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://trentonpowers.blogspot.com/2010/03/if-i-were-coordinating-ad-campaign-to.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7061490172150208439/posts/default/4364736429462899853'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7061490172150208439/posts/default/4364736429462899853'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://trentonpowers.blogspot.com/2010/03/if-i-were-coordinating-ad-campaign-to.html' title='If I were coordinating an ad campaign to combat negative opinions toward Islam...'/><author><name>Trenton Powers-Mellencamp</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02890452025044001110</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='23' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_EOx9wP3Fj10/SbxZzOYEUTI/AAAAAAAAAG0/_xl59Z4YNjo/S220/policesketch.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7061490172150208439.post-4128346667256929944</id><published>2010-03-03T21:40:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2010-03-03T21:40:10.873-07:00</updated><title type='text'>What are you thinking about?  (Part 2)</title><content type='html'>Three LA teachers were recently pulled from their classrooms for giving portraits of OJ Simpson, Dennis Rodman and RuPaul to their students to carry in a Black History month parade.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Methinks they could have done much worse.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object height="344" width="425"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/fmF9Bm7A1Rw&amp;color1=0x333366&amp;color2=0x666699&amp;hl=en_US&amp;feature=player_embedded&amp;fs=1"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/fmF9Bm7A1Rw&amp;color1=0x333366&amp;color2=0x666699&amp;hl=en_US&amp;feature=player_embedded&amp;fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" allowScriptAccess="always" width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;(h/t&lt;a href="http://www.fark.com/"&gt; fark &lt;/a&gt;again&amp;nbsp; x2)&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7061490172150208439-4128346667256929944?l=trentonpowers.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://trentonpowers.blogspot.com/feeds/4128346667256929944/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://trentonpowers.blogspot.com/2010/03/what-are-you-thinking-about-part-2.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7061490172150208439/posts/default/4128346667256929944'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7061490172150208439/posts/default/4128346667256929944'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://trentonpowers.blogspot.com/2010/03/what-are-you-thinking-about-part-2.html' title='What are you thinking about?  (Part 2)'/><author><name>Trenton Powers-Mellencamp</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02890452025044001110</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='23' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_EOx9wP3Fj10/SbxZzOYEUTI/AAAAAAAAAG0/_xl59Z4YNjo/S220/policesketch.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7061490172150208439.post-3443031176788818206</id><published>2010-03-03T11:59:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2010-03-03T11:59:28.955-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Just throwing one out</title><content type='html'>Ok, I'll bite.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Over on &lt;a href="http://dctrawler.dailycaller.com/2010/03/03/its-a-coffee-party-instead-of-a-tea-party-get-it/"&gt;another blog&lt;/a&gt; somewhere, the following question was asked:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;em&gt;If “teabaggers” is the preferred term for people who are speaking out against what this administration is doing, what should we call the people who think this administration is awesome? “Bean-flickers”?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I submit:&amp;nbsp; "Beaners"&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7061490172150208439-3443031176788818206?l=trentonpowers.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://trentonpowers.blogspot.com/feeds/3443031176788818206/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://trentonpowers.blogspot.com/2010/03/just-throwing-one-out.html#comment-form' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7061490172150208439/posts/default/3443031176788818206'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7061490172150208439/posts/default/3443031176788818206'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://trentonpowers.blogspot.com/2010/03/just-throwing-one-out.html' title='Just throwing one out'/><author><name>Trenton Powers-Mellencamp</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02890452025044001110</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='23' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_EOx9wP3Fj10/SbxZzOYEUTI/AAAAAAAAAG0/_xl59Z4YNjo/S220/policesketch.jpg'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7061490172150208439.post-7561900530314530833</id><published>2010-03-02T20:55:00.002-07:00</published><updated>2010-03-02T20:55:53.211-07:00</updated><title type='text'>I cant stop watching this</title><content type='html'>Via Fark&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object height="344" width="425"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/3S9N1oCX_nI&amp;amp;color1=0x333366&amp;amp;color2=0x666699&amp;amp;hl=en_US&amp;amp;feature=player_embedded&amp;amp;fs=1"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/3S9N1oCX_nI&amp;amp;color1=0x333366&amp;amp;color2=0x666699&amp;amp;hl=en_US&amp;amp;feature=player_embedded&amp;amp;fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" allowScriptAccess="always" width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7061490172150208439-7561900530314530833?l=trentonpowers.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://trentonpowers.blogspot.com/feeds/7561900530314530833/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://trentonpowers.blogspot.com/2010/03/i-cant-stop-watching-this.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7061490172150208439/posts/default/7561900530314530833'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7061490172150208439/posts/default/7561900530314530833'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://trentonpowers.blogspot.com/2010/03/i-cant-stop-watching-this.html' title='I cant stop watching this'/><author><name>Trenton Powers-Mellencamp</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02890452025044001110</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='23' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_EOx9wP3Fj10/SbxZzOYEUTI/AAAAAAAAAG0/_xl59Z4YNjo/S220/policesketch.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7061490172150208439.post-693599284820608971</id><published>2010-03-02T07:39:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2010-03-02T07:39:47.610-07:00</updated><title type='text'>By Pelosi-esque logic</title><content type='html'>A bill can be bipartisan without &lt;a href="http://www.thefoxnation.com/nancy-pelosi/2010/02/28/pelosi-bill-can-be-bipartisan-without-gop-votes"&gt;bipartisan votes&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A school can be integrated without letting in black students.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Global warming can exist in the absence of a warming temperatures.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Obama can quit smoking without giving up cigarettes.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7061490172150208439-693599284820608971?l=trentonpowers.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://trentonpowers.blogspot.com/feeds/693599284820608971/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://trentonpowers.blogspot.com/2010/03/by-pelosi-esque-logic.html#comment-form' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7061490172150208439/posts/default/693599284820608971'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7061490172150208439/posts/default/693599284820608971'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://trentonpowers.blogspot.com/2010/03/by-pelosi-esque-logic.html' title='By Pelosi-esque logic'/><author><name>Trenton Powers-Mellencamp</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02890452025044001110</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='23' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_EOx9wP3Fj10/SbxZzOYEUTI/AAAAAAAAAG0/_xl59Z4YNjo/S220/policesketch.jpg'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7061490172150208439.post-3612505487228599809</id><published>2010-03-01T20:49:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2010-03-03T21:53:40.879-07:00</updated><title type='text'>The Nerds Lament</title><content type='html'>Everything was perfect.&amp;nbsp; Her smile, the lock of hair that always fell across her eyebrow, that high pitched laughter at my lowbrow fart jokes.&amp;nbsp; We had plans for a happy future together...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;...until the day she found out about my level 80 paladin.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7061490172150208439-3612505487228599809?l=trentonpowers.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://trentonpowers.blogspot.com/feeds/3612505487228599809/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://trentonpowers.blogspot.com/2010/03/nerds-lament.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7061490172150208439/posts/default/3612505487228599809'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7061490172150208439/posts/default/3612505487228599809'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://trentonpowers.blogspot.com/2010/03/nerds-lament.html' title='The Nerds Lament'/><author><name>Trenton Powers-Mellencamp</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02890452025044001110</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='23' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_EOx9wP3Fj10/SbxZzOYEUTI/AAAAAAAAAG0/_xl59Z4YNjo/S220/policesketch.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7061490172150208439.post-6520075797074016494</id><published>2010-02-21T19:25:00.002-07:00</published><updated>2010-02-21T19:25:58.332-07:00</updated><title type='text'>What are you thinking about?</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_EOx9wP3Fj10/S4HrFi2QSYI/AAAAAAAAAN0/omhe1JqtIfE/s1600-h/Image1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_EOx9wP3Fj10/S4HrFi2QSYI/AAAAAAAAAN0/omhe1JqtIfE/s320/Image1.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;DISCUSS&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7061490172150208439-6520075797074016494?l=trentonpowers.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://trentonpowers.blogspot.com/feeds/6520075797074016494/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://trentonpowers.blogspot.com/2010/02/what-are-you-thinking-about.html#comment-form' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7061490172150208439/posts/default/6520075797074016494'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7061490172150208439/posts/default/6520075797074016494'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://trentonpowers.blogspot.com/2010/02/what-are-you-thinking-about.html' title='What are you thinking about?'/><author><name>Trenton Powers-Mellencamp</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02890452025044001110</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='23' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_EOx9wP3Fj10/SbxZzOYEUTI/AAAAAAAAAG0/_xl59Z4YNjo/S220/policesketch.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_EOx9wP3Fj10/S4HrFi2QSYI/AAAAAAAAAN0/omhe1JqtIfE/s72-c/Image1.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7061490172150208439.post-5847408593352897471</id><published>2010-02-19T08:14:00.008-07:00</published><updated>2010-02-19T09:55:58.822-07:00</updated><title type='text'>The presidential trash</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://www.gettyimages.co.nz/detail/96834730/AFP"&gt;haha&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Not pictured:&amp;nbsp; Joe Bidens Camaro and the old sofa on the porch.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Completely unrelated:&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; Mark Steyn is a &lt;a href="http://corner.nationalreview.com/post/?q=NzA5NDJmZDY2ODJhMWI5MDdkMDJmMDhlYmJkZGM1NmE="&gt;very bad man.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Also unrelated:&amp;nbsp; Would it be &lt;a href="http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/02/19/sen-mellencamp-seat-stirs-online-push/?test=latestnews"&gt;Senator Mellencamp, Senator Cougar, or Senator Cougar-Mellencamp&lt;/a&gt;?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Meanwhile.....&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Barrack Obama, Feb 2, 2010:&amp;nbsp; "You don't &lt;a href="http://voices.washingtonpost.com/44/2010/02/obamas-brings-las-vegas-into-t.html"&gt;blow a bunch of cash in Vegas&lt;/a&gt; when you're trying to save for college."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Barrack Obama, Feb 19, 2010:&amp;nbsp; President Barack Obama is unveiling &lt;a href="http://apnews.myway.com/article/20100219/D9DV7SS00.html"&gt;$1.5 billion&lt;/a&gt; in housing help, a boost timed to his appearance in the city with the worst foreclosure crisis in the nation.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You don't blow a bunch of cash in Vegas when you're trying to fix the economy.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7061490172150208439-5847408593352897471?l=trentonpowers.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://trentonpowers.blogspot.com/feeds/5847408593352897471/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://trentonpowers.blogspot.com/2010/02/presidential-trash.html#comment-form' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7061490172150208439/posts/default/5847408593352897471'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7061490172150208439/posts/default/5847408593352897471'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://trentonpowers.blogspot.com/2010/02/presidential-trash.html' title='The presidential trash'/><author><name>Trenton Powers-Mellencamp</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02890452025044001110</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='23' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_EOx9wP3Fj10/SbxZzOYEUTI/AAAAAAAAAG0/_xl59Z4YNjo/S220/policesketch.jpg'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7061490172150208439.post-8845959629453565140</id><published>2010-02-19T07:35:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2010-02-19T07:35:40.975-07:00</updated><title type='text'>This is scary</title><content type='html'>If the &lt;a href="http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,586721,00.html?test=latestnews"&gt;radical tea party wing&lt;/a&gt; is willing to try something like this on an army base, what is to stop them from poisoning the entire country?&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7061490172150208439-8845959629453565140?l=trentonpowers.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://trentonpowers.blogspot.com/feeds/8845959629453565140/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://trentonpowers.blogspot.com/2010/02/this-is-scary.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7061490172150208439/posts/default/8845959629453565140'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7061490172150208439/posts/default/8845959629453565140'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://trentonpowers.blogspot.com/2010/02/this-is-scary.html' title='This is scary'/><author><name>Trenton Powers-Mellencamp</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02890452025044001110</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='23' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_EOx9wP3Fj10/SbxZzOYEUTI/AAAAAAAAAG0/_xl59Z4YNjo/S220/policesketch.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7061490172150208439.post-7219048289699592670</id><published>2010-02-18T07:53:00.002-07:00</published><updated>2010-02-18T07:53:44.540-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Hot news babe alert</title><content type='html'>I`d&lt;a href="http://www.ksl.com/?nid=148&amp;amp;sid=9725021"&gt; hit it.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7061490172150208439-7219048289699592670?l=trentonpowers.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' 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rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='23' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_EOx9wP3Fj10/SbxZzOYEUTI/AAAAAAAAAG0/_xl59Z4YNjo/S220/policesketch.jpg'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7061490172150208439.post-2549710413740521709</id><published>2010-02-14T10:20:00.003-07:00</published><updated>2010-02-15T14:59:23.186-07:00</updated><title type='text'>I'm somewhat dismayed by the tenacity with which conservatives cling to their economic theories</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://independentbloghorn.com/2010/02/should-government-force-small-businesses-to-hire-people/"&gt;Case in point&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;From the comments, it is clear that&amp;nbsp;"admin" fails to appreciate the&amp;nbsp;theoretical merits&amp;nbsp;of the compulsory employment model (as formulated by &lt;a href="http://trentonpowers.blogspot.com/2010/02/as-runner-up-to-milford-regional.html"&gt;Speng Musselman&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href="http://trentonpowers.blogspot.com/2010/02/another-possible-way-to-stimulate-job.html"&gt;myself&lt;/a&gt;), preferring instead to stand by a quote from conservative shill &lt;a href="http://hughhewitt.com/transcripts.aspx?id=7baa3666-a838-4c82-ae43-930332a67094"&gt;Mark Steyn&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;No, the idea that you, to qualify for a $6,000 dollar tax credit, you pay someone or you hire someone and take them on at $105,000 dollars. That’s what I mean about a know-nothing administration. It doesn’t understand why people hire people. You hire people because you are growing your business, you’ve got more sales, and you need to make more product. That’s why you hire people. You don’t hire someone to give them $105,000 dollars to access a $6,000 dollar tax credit. This is stupid.&lt;/blockquote&gt;Which begs the question:&amp;nbsp; If he is so learned in the ways of economics, why is he shilling himself out to AM radio and &lt;a href="http://author.nationalreview.com/archive/?q=MjE5MA=="&gt;conservative rags&lt;/a&gt;?&amp;nbsp; But I digress.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;On an obliquely related note, another discussion &lt;a href="http://iraqwarwrong.blogspot.com/2010/02/source-of-brillence-yggie-of-course.html"&gt;arose here&lt;/a&gt;, wherein the proprietor wrote glowingly of a recent &lt;a href="http://yglesias.thinkprogress.org/archives/2009/02/a_flawed_stimulus_is_better_than_no_stimulus.php"&gt;Matthew Yglesias&lt;/a&gt; post exploring both the simplicity and effectiveness of another stimulus bill, as clearly illustrated below:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_EOx9wP3Fj10/S3guPB_EzHI/AAAAAAAAANo/1O73BnL8gMA/s1600-h/jobs.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" ct="true" height="174" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_EOx9wP3Fj10/S3guPB_EzHI/AAAAAAAAANo/1O73BnL8gMA/s320/jobs.png" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Which brings us to a natural extension of the Compulsory Employment Model as&amp;nbsp;a means to promote jobs growth and heal our economy.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; I submit that in the words of my colleague Speng Musselman:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;"There is no proven correlation between sales growth and small-business hiring practices."&amp;nbsp; Only the presence of robust regulation can cultivate an economic environment condusive to jobs growth.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;Therefore:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;Government should step in and mandate that businesses with net profits above an arbitrary threshhold be required to hire additional workers.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;And here's the kicker:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;Government should then tax business based upon the additional workers they hire under the proposed mandate and use the additional revenue generated to fund more stimulus.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It is brilliant in it's simplicity.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;(&lt;strong&gt;UPDATE:&amp;nbsp; 2/15/2010&lt;/strong&gt;)&amp;nbsp; "theLibertyPen" disagreed with me:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;em&gt;To be blunt, you (TP) and your friend (SM) display a remarkably stunted understanding of economic practicality – which is typical of those enamored with Keynesian models and their extreme variants (i.e. intromissive Marxism). Which in themselves are superiorly theoretical, non-quantitative models that neglect empiricism and other measures of viability.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Short hand version of the above&amp;nbsp;rebuttal:&amp;nbsp; "&lt;em&gt;No, you!"&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Simply saying something is wrong is not enough to make it wrong.&amp;nbsp; Its not like in the Iraq War (which was &lt;a href="http://iraqwarwrong.blogspot.com/"&gt;wrong&lt;/a&gt;) which goes without saying.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In that same comments, someone actualy said that the compulsory employment model worked and led to smaller unemployment.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;em&gt;"Also, I have to point out that TP’s “idea” was implemented in a similar form in the former Soviet Union which constantly boasted of its extremely small unemployment rate."&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;So this proves our model is sound.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' 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src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_EOx9wP3Fj10/SbxZzOYEUTI/AAAAAAAAAG0/_xl59Z4YNjo/S220/policesketch.jpg'/></author><thr:total>7</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7061490172150208439.post-1469150161414763063</id><published>2010-02-13T12:25:00.013-07:00</published><updated>2010-02-13T19:43:25.239-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Randy Rasmussen:  Long Haul Trucker'/><title type='text'>The Erotic Adventures of Randy Rasmussen</title><content type='html'>&lt;i&gt;(Scene 1: Pan from dark, overcast sky downward to reveal a desolate, snowbound stretch of highway. A white sign, half covered in ice reads US 50. Below that, another reads Ely 105 miles. From behind and to the right, brilliant white lights suddenly pierce the darkness, illuminating snow drifts blowing across the blacktop.&amp;nbsp;A custom Peterbilt 18 wheeler growls past. Inside the cab, a toasty sanctuary from the bone-rattling cold, intrepid long haul trucker Randy "Dave" Rasmussen struggles to stay awake as pushes onward through the night toward Salt Lake City.)&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;RANDY:&lt;/b&gt; Gotta stay awake, "Dave". Only five hours to go.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;(Randy stiffles a yawn and shakes his head as his radio crackles to life)&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;"BIG" DICK AUGNEY:&lt;/b&gt;&amp;nbsp; Breaker breaker one niner any other road doggs howlin' tonight?&amp;nbsp; Come back.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;RANDY:&lt;/b&gt;&amp;nbsp; I gotcha "Big Dick".&amp;nbsp; Whaddya hear? &lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;"BIG" DICK AUGNEY:&lt;/b&gt;&amp;nbsp; "Dandy Dave".&amp;nbsp; Is thatchoo?&amp;nbsp; &lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;RANDY:&lt;/b&gt;&amp;nbsp; Thats a ten four, good buddy. &lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;"BIG" DICK AUGNEY:&lt;/b&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;Say-a "Dave", dispatch is hollerin' at me to pull off the road.&amp;nbsp; Says Austin summit is closed.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; Says it wont open 'til tomorrow afternoon.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; Is that gospel?&amp;nbsp; Over. &lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;RANDY:&lt;/b&gt;&amp;nbsp; That's right, "Big Dick", the county mounties shut it down&amp;nbsp;right behind me.&amp;nbsp; It's a dicey go twenty miles on either side too. &lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;(Cut to scene 2:&amp;nbsp; A primer gray Dodge Neon, with an over-sized rear spoiler and mismatched custom wheels&amp;nbsp;rests on the highway shoulder.&amp;nbsp; A solitary figure sits shivering behind the wheel.&amp;nbsp; Inside the poorly modified Mopar tomb, Kevin LaFontaine has begun to second guess his decision to not stop for gas in Ely.)&lt;/i&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;KEVIN LAFONTAINE:&lt;/b&gt;&amp;nbsp; Herrrrrrrrrrrrr&amp;nbsp;Derrrrrrrrrr. &lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;(Kevin sticks his index finger into his nose.&amp;nbsp;He pulls it out and carefully examines a gummy wad of mucus showing a faint tinge of blood.)&lt;/i&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;KEVIN LAFONTAINE:&lt;/b&gt;&amp;nbsp; Derrrrrrrrrrr. &lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;(Cut to scene 3:&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;Sheltering from the blizzard in her own&amp;nbsp;custom Kenworth,&amp;nbsp; "Sweaty" Alice Negretti, listens idly to radio traffic while half-heartedly watching an episode from season 3 of her Melrose Place DVD collection.&amp;nbsp; She flexes her keigel muscles continuously, conscious of an ache deep inside and knowing only the solid thrust of a mans flesh cudgel could ease her emotional and sexual pain.)&lt;/i&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;"SWEATY" NEGRETTI:&lt;/b&gt;&amp;nbsp; (staring at her radio but speaking to herself)&amp;nbsp; I'm here, you sonsabitches.&amp;nbsp; Take me.&amp;nbsp; I'm here for the taking. &lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;(The radio crackles)&lt;/i&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;"BIG" DICK AUGNEY:&lt;/b&gt;&amp;nbsp; I'ma pull it over, east side of Eureka.&amp;nbsp; You&amp;nbsp;up for some comp'ny &amp;nbsp;"Dave"? &lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;RANDY:&amp;nbsp; &lt;/b&gt;Love to "Big Dick",&amp;nbsp; but I have to see this load through to Salt Lake before 10 am. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;"SWEATY" NEGRETTI:&lt;/b&gt;&amp;nbsp; (to herself)&amp;nbsp; I'm right here, you sonsabitches.&amp;nbsp; I'll do ya both for a wink'n a smile.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;(Cut to scene 4 -&amp;nbsp;Subtitle&lt;b&gt;: 45 minutes later...&lt;/b&gt;&amp;nbsp; Two custom Peterbilt rigs&amp;nbsp;parked alongside the other.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;One&amp;nbsp;pointed eastbound idling languidly, the other pointed westbound, rocking violently side to side.&amp;nbsp; Muffled voices can be heard over the howling blizzard.)&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;RANDY:&lt;/b&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; (muffled)&amp;nbsp; Oh yeahhhh, brother.&amp;nbsp; Yeahhhhhhhhhhhhh.&amp;nbsp; Ride me like a rodeo champ.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;"BIG" DICK AUGNEY:&lt;/b&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; Unnnnngh&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;RANDY:&lt;/b&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; Thats it, you big pecker!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;"BIG" DICK AUGNEY:&lt;/b&gt;&amp;nbsp; Aaaagghhhhhh&amp;nbsp; &lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;(Cut to scene 5:&amp;nbsp; Inside "Sweaty" Negretti's rig.&amp;nbsp; Melrose Place credits scroll slowly up&amp;nbsp;her video screen.)&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;"SWEATY" NEGRETTI:&lt;/b&gt;&amp;nbsp; Sonsabitches.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;(she reaches for a medium size roll-on deodorant container)&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;"SWEATY"&amp;nbsp; NEGRETTI:&lt;/b&gt;&amp;nbsp; I can do this myself.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;(she pulls the bottom of a silk teddy up toward her chin, revealing an exquitely trimmed minge, with a tiny "faux hitler moustache" patch of velvety pubic hair&amp;nbsp; just below her panty line)&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;"SWEATY" NEGRETTI:&lt;/b&gt;&amp;nbsp; Sonsabitches.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;(Cut to scene 6:&amp;nbsp; Kevin LaFontaine, exhausted, frostbitten, and resigned to his fate remains slumped behind his steering wheel.&amp;nbsp; Frozen rivulets of snot plastered to his upper lip.)&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;KEVIN LAFONTAINE:&lt;/b&gt;&amp;nbsp; Hurrrrrrr Durrrrrrrrrrrr&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;(he farts, shudders, and surrenders to the cold)&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;(Cut to scene 7:&amp;nbsp; Inside the toasty confines of a custom Peterbilt, two nude men lie spooning in the sleeper cab.&amp;nbsp; The wiry hair on "Big" Dick Augney's stomach clinging like velcro to the thick, coarse hair matted generously over Randy "Dave" Rasmussen's ass.&amp;nbsp; The smells of armpit sweat, feces, anal lube and semen compete for supremacy in the confines of their love nest.)&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;RANDY:&lt;/b&gt;&amp;nbsp; I'm stretched wider than a bell-bottom pant leg.&amp;nbsp; Yeah.&amp;nbsp; Thats the stuff.&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;Thank you, "Big" Dick.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;"BIG" DICK AUGNEY:&lt;/b&gt;&amp;nbsp; Any time pard'ner.&amp;nbsp; It was my pleasure...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;RANDY:&lt;/b&gt;&amp;nbsp; (interrupts)&amp;nbsp; But I really gotta be on my way.&amp;nbsp; I have to see my load through to Salt Lake before 10am.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;(Outside, a hot pink Kenworth&amp;nbsp;blasts by.&amp;nbsp;From its now slightly cracked windows wafts the faint, pleasant&amp;nbsp;aromas of vanilla and tuna fish)&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;"SWEATY" NEGRETTI:&lt;/b&gt;&amp;nbsp; (sighs)&amp;nbsp; Sonsabitches.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;(Cut to scene 8:&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;A custom Peterbilt roars past a stalled Dodge Neon, whose windows are now covered in frost.&amp;nbsp; The truck driver, Randy "Dave" Rasmussen, does a double take as he thinks in passing that he can make out the silhouette of a person slumped over the steering wheel.)&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;RANDY:&lt;/b&gt;&amp;nbsp; Sorry pal.&amp;nbsp; Can't stop now.&amp;nbsp; Those school&amp;nbsp;children in Salt Lake need this load of pencils and I plan to see them through!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;(The custom Peterbilt rumbles on through the night.)&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;To be continued...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;(&lt;b&gt;UPDATE&amp;nbsp; 7:30pm&lt;/b&gt;:&amp;nbsp; title changed)&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7061490172150208439-1469150161414763063?l=trentonpowers.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://trentonpowers.blogspot.com/feeds/1469150161414763063/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://trentonpowers.blogspot.com/2010/02/two-trucks-passing-in-night.html#comment-form' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7061490172150208439/posts/default/1469150161414763063'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7061490172150208439/posts/default/1469150161414763063'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://trentonpowers.blogspot.com/2010/02/two-trucks-passing-in-night.html' title='The Erotic Adventures of Randy Rasmussen'/><author><name>Trenton Powers-Mellencamp</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02890452025044001110</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='23' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_EOx9wP3Fj10/SbxZzOYEUTI/AAAAAAAAAG0/_xl59Z4YNjo/S220/policesketch.jpg'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7061490172150208439.post-175731773120516163</id><published>2010-02-13T06:41:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2010-02-13T06:41:02.556-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Information Requested</title><content type='html'>Does anyone know of a website that offers or facilitates opportunities for guys to meet and date military wives whose husbands are away on deployment?&amp;nbsp;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7061490172150208439-175731773120516163?l=trentonpowers.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://trentonpowers.blogspot.com/feeds/175731773120516163/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://trentonpowers.blogspot.com/2010/02/information-requested.html#comment-form' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7061490172150208439/posts/default/175731773120516163'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7061490172150208439/posts/default/175731773120516163'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://trentonpowers.blogspot.com/2010/02/information-requested.html' title='Information Requested'/><author><name>Trenton Powers-Mellencamp</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02890452025044001110</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='23' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_EOx9wP3Fj10/SbxZzOYEUTI/AAAAAAAAAG0/_xl59Z4YNjo/S220/policesketch.jpg'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7061490172150208439.post-5503162569917556830</id><published>2010-02-12T21:40:00.002-07:00</published><updated>2010-02-12T21:42:20.438-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Would you rather watch the opening ceremonies for the Vancouver Olympics or be hospitalized in a coma for a month?</title><content type='html'>Personally, I'd take the coma for a month because I know that the coma would eventually end.&amp;nbsp; The opening ceremonies NEVER end.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Incidentally, why are winter Olympic games never held in the southern hemisphere?&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; The fact that they are only held in the northern hemisphere is inherently racist.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7061490172150208439-5503162569917556830?l=trentonpowers.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://trentonpowers.blogspot.com/feeds/5503162569917556830/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://trentonpowers.blogspot.com/2010/02/would-you-rather-watch-opening.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7061490172150208439/posts/default/5503162569917556830'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7061490172150208439/posts/default/5503162569917556830'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://trentonpowers.blogspot.com/2010/02/would-you-rather-watch-opening.html' title='Would you rather watch the opening ceremonies for the Vancouver Olympics or be hospitalized in a coma for a month?'/><author><name>Trenton Powers-Mellencamp</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02890452025044001110</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='23' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_EOx9wP3Fj10/SbxZzOYEUTI/AAAAAAAAAG0/_xl59Z4YNjo/S220/policesketch.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7061490172150208439.post-4171243207587825380</id><published>2010-02-12T07:38:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2010-02-12T10:19:37.591-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Iran was supposed to deliver a telling blow yesterday</title><content type='html'>Did anyone catch &lt;a href="http://rds.yahoo.com/_ylt=A0oGkx6EZnVL0WEB4X1XNyoA;_ylu=X3oDMTEyb2RiNWRsBHNlYwNzcgRwb3MDMQRjb2xvA3NrMQR2dGlkA0RGUjVfODI-/SIG=12nsp09j9/EXP=1266071556/**http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=117545&amp;amp;sectionid=351020101"&gt;what it was&lt;/a&gt;?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I waited all day for it, but as the day wore on I found myself becoming impatient.&amp;nbsp; I&amp;nbsp;tried to temper&amp;nbsp;my&amp;nbsp;expectations&amp;nbsp;for their&amp;nbsp;promised telling blow.&amp;nbsp; I considered the possibility that they weren't talking about a "telling blow", but rather a "kilo of blow" and that somehow that promise was skewed in the interpretation.&amp;nbsp; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Then I played WoW for a while and went to bed.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7061490172150208439-4171243207587825380?l=trentonpowers.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://trentonpowers.blogspot.com/feeds/4171243207587825380/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://trentonpowers.blogspot.com/2010/02/iran-was-supposed-to-deliver-telling.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' 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src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_EOx9wP3Fj10/SbxZzOYEUTI/AAAAAAAAAG0/_xl59Z4YNjo/S220/policesketch.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7061490172150208439.post-2370947163651660282</id><published>2010-02-12T06:54:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2010-02-12T06:54:40.034-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Jim Treacher posts upskirt shots</title><content type='html'>Probably trying to &lt;a href="http://dctrawler.dailycaller.com/2010/02/09/your-2910-treacher-update/"&gt;boost traffic&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Incidentally, I still think he's a boob.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; Kind of like Kenny Mayne, except not as funny...and a boob.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7061490172150208439-2370947163651660282?l=trentonpowers.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' 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src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_EOx9wP3Fj10/SbxZzOYEUTI/AAAAAAAAAG0/_xl59Z4YNjo/S220/policesketch.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7061490172150208439.post-2668230026665563563</id><published>2010-02-09T20:09:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2010-02-09T20:09:51.120-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='exerpts'/><title type='text'>Another teaser exerpt from my forthcoming novel</title><content type='html'>"If you don't stop fellating me" I replied, "I'm going to tell my wife."&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7061490172150208439-2668230026665563563?l=trentonpowers.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://trentonpowers.blogspot.com/feeds/2668230026665563563/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://trentonpowers.blogspot.com/2010/02/another-teaser-exerpt-from-my.html#comment-form' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7061490172150208439/posts/default/2668230026665563563'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7061490172150208439/posts/default/2668230026665563563'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://trentonpowers.blogspot.com/2010/02/another-teaser-exerpt-from-my.html' title='Another teaser exerpt from my forthcoming novel'/><author><name>Trenton Powers-Mellencamp</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02890452025044001110</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='23' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_EOx9wP3Fj10/SbxZzOYEUTI/AAAAAAAAAG0/_xl59Z4YNjo/S220/policesketch.jpg'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7061490172150208439.post-772902372047627180</id><published>2010-02-03T12:08:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2010-02-03T12:08:53.473-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Its thinking like this that convinced the Australians to fall into lock step with Nazi Germany before world war 2</title><content type='html'>Tim Blair went off the &lt;a href="http://blogs.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/timblair/index.php/dailytelegraph/comments/warmenists_at_the_barricades/"&gt;deep end&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;em&gt;"pacifist hippie types who believe in global warming are in fact the most hawkish of Australian defenders."&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Wow.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7061490172150208439-772902372047627180?l=trentonpowers.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://trentonpowers.blogspot.com/feeds/772902372047627180/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://trentonpowers.blogspot.com/2010/02/its-thinking-like-this-that-convinced.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7061490172150208439/posts/default/772902372047627180'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7061490172150208439/posts/default/772902372047627180'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://trentonpowers.blogspot.com/2010/02/its-thinking-like-this-that-convinced.html' title='Its thinking like this that convinced the Australians to fall into lock step with Nazi Germany before world war 2'/><author><name>Trenton Powers-Mellencamp</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02890452025044001110</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='23' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_EOx9wP3Fj10/SbxZzOYEUTI/AAAAAAAAAG0/_xl59Z4YNjo/S220/policesketch.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7061490172150208439.post-1183952045120666554</id><published>2010-02-03T08:34:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2010-02-03T08:35:54.273-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Another possible way to stimulate job growth</title><content type='html'>Just to take the previous post a step further,&amp;nbsp;wouldn't it fix a whole butt load of problems if government were to mandate that small business hire people if they earn profits above an arbitrary threshold? &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;For instance, its&amp;nbsp;really not unreasonable for a family owned polymer-injection business, or a start-up pinking enterprise to be required to bring on another worker if that business makes more than $20,000 in profits, or they could be required to take on a migrant worker if they pass a $10,000 profit threshold. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This is not a bad idea.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7061490172150208439-1183952045120666554?l=trentonpowers.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://trentonpowers.blogspot.com/feeds/1183952045120666554/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://trentonpowers.blogspot.com/2010/02/another-possible-way-to-stimulate-job.html#comment-form' title='4 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7061490172150208439/posts/default/1183952045120666554'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7061490172150208439/posts/default/1183952045120666554'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://trentonpowers.blogspot.com/2010/02/another-possible-way-to-stimulate-job.html' title='Another possible way to stimulate job growth'/><author><name>Trenton Powers-Mellencamp</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02890452025044001110</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='23' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_EOx9wP3Fj10/SbxZzOYEUTI/AAAAAAAAAG0/_xl59Z4YNjo/S220/policesketch.jpg'/></author><thr:total>4</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7061490172150208439.post-5522202397309375710</id><published>2010-02-02T21:14:00.008-07:00</published><updated>2010-02-03T09:39:12.444-07:00</updated><title type='text'>How To Stimulate Small Business Jobs Growth</title><content type='html'>As a runner-up to the Milford Regional Chamber of Commerce Businessperson of The Year in 2007 I know a thing or two about business and economics. For instance I know that this purported &lt;a href="http://corner.nationalreview.com/post/?q=NjA5MDJkZTBjMjVkOTMxZTA3MWYzOTBkNmFkOWVkMjk="&gt;letter from a&lt;/a&gt; conspicuously anonymous, alleged reader of the reactionary conservative rag, the National Review is hogwash:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;Small business will start to hire when one big thing happens.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;Sales Growth. End of story.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This goes beyond simple intellectual dishonesty and charges head-first to the realm of deliberate misrepresentation.&amp;nbsp; There is no correlation between small business' hiring practice and sales growth. Only the presence of robust regulation can create an environment conducive to increased employment opportunity in the private sector. By extension, government expansion is a necessity if one wishes to create a job-friendly atmosphere.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7061490172150208439-5522202397309375710?l=trentonpowers.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://trentonpowers.blogspot.com/feeds/5522202397309375710/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://trentonpowers.blogspot.com/2010/02/as-runner-up-to-milford-regional.html#comment-form' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7061490172150208439/posts/default/5522202397309375710'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7061490172150208439/posts/default/5522202397309375710'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://trentonpowers.blogspot.com/2010/02/as-runner-up-to-milford-regional.html' title='How To Stimulate Small Business Jobs Growth'/><author><name>Speng Musselman</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01250087903951044282</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7061490172150208439.post-4437867337856373107</id><published>2010-02-02T20:10:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2010-02-02T20:10:53.461-07:00</updated><title type='text'>That the Chinese blame President Obama for deteriorating relations between our countries draws right thinking people to one inescapable conclusion:</title><content type='html'>Clearly, the Chinese are &lt;a href="http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3843279,00.html"&gt;assholes&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7061490172150208439-4437867337856373107?l=trentonpowers.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://trentonpowers.blogspot.com/feeds/4437867337856373107/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://trentonpowers.blogspot.com/2010/02/that-chinese-blame-president-obama-for.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7061490172150208439/posts/default/4437867337856373107'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7061490172150208439/posts/default/4437867337856373107'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://trentonpowers.blogspot.com/2010/02/that-chinese-blame-president-obama-for.html' title='That the Chinese blame President Obama for deteriorating relations between our countries draws right thinking people to one inescapable conclusion:'/><author><name>Trenton Powers-Mellencamp</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02890452025044001110</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='23' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_EOx9wP3Fj10/SbxZzOYEUTI/AAAAAAAAAG0/_xl59Z4YNjo/S220/policesketch.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7061490172150208439.post-3053190004596218891</id><published>2010-02-02T07:57:00.003-07:00</published><updated>2010-02-02T20:58:16.202-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Fine.  I'll come right out and say it in simple English</title><content type='html'>The &lt;a href="http://espn.go.com/blog/sportscenter/post/_/id/27967/the-bcs-unintentionally-solves-washingtons-partisan-divide"&gt;BCS needs Orrin Hatch&lt;/a&gt; more than Orrin Hatch needs the BCS.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7061490172150208439-3053190004596218891?l=trentonpowers.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://trentonpowers.blogspot.com/feeds/3053190004596218891/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://trentonpowers.blogspot.com/2010/02/fine-ill-come-right-out-and-say-it-in.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7061490172150208439/posts/default/3053190004596218891'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7061490172150208439/posts/default/3053190004596218891'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://trentonpowers.blogspot.com/2010/02/fine-ill-come-right-out-and-say-it-in.html' title='Fine.  I&apos;ll come right out and say it in simple English'/><author><name>Trenton Powers-Mellencamp</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02890452025044001110</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='23' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_EOx9wP3Fj10/SbxZzOYEUTI/AAAAAAAAAG0/_xl59Z4YNjo/S220/policesketch.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7061490172150208439.post-1530371641948265309</id><published>2010-02-01T21:31:00.002-07:00</published><updated>2010-02-01T21:31:32.776-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Prince Harry is a ginger kid?</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://blogs.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/timblair/index.php/dailytelegraph/comments/hair_trigger/"&gt;Heh&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7061490172150208439-1530371641948265309?l=trentonpowers.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://trentonpowers.blogspot.com/feeds/1530371641948265309/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://trentonpowers.blogspot.com/2010/02/prince-harry-is-ginger-kid.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7061490172150208439/posts/default/1530371641948265309'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7061490172150208439/posts/default/1530371641948265309'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://trentonpowers.blogspot.com/2010/02/prince-harry-is-ginger-kid.html' title='Prince Harry is a ginger kid?'/><author><name>Trenton Powers-Mellencamp</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02890452025044001110</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='23' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_EOx9wP3Fj10/SbxZzOYEUTI/AAAAAAAAAG0/_xl59Z4YNjo/S220/policesketch.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7061490172150208439.post-7515684182456130338</id><published>2010-02-01T21:29:00.002-07:00</published><updated>2010-02-01T21:29:09.695-07:00</updated><title type='text'>I mean...seriously...did you catch that State of the Union?</title><content type='html'>Wow!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;That's all there is to say about that.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7061490172150208439-7515684182456130338?l=trentonpowers.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://trentonpowers.blogspot.com/feeds/7515684182456130338/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://trentonpowers.blogspot.com/2010/02/i-meanseriouslydid-you-catch-that-state.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7061490172150208439/posts/default/7515684182456130338'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7061490172150208439/posts/default/7515684182456130338'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://trentonpowers.blogspot.com/2010/02/i-meanseriouslydid-you-catch-that-state.html' title='I mean...seriously...did you catch that State of the Union?'/><author><name>Trenton Powers-Mellencamp</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02890452025044001110</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='23' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_EOx9wP3Fj10/SbxZzOYEUTI/AAAAAAAAAG0/_xl59Z4YNjo/S220/policesketch.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7061490172150208439.post-7681228916919872105</id><published>2010-01-28T08:23:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2010-01-28T08:23:56.337-07:00</updated><title type='text'>While I continue to bask in the usual post State of The Union afterglow</title><content type='html'>I'm struck by the pathetic attempts by the teabagger wing of the rethuglican party to rally around Alito, who they have cynically placed ona pedestal after his unprofessional and &lt;a href="http://corner.nationalreview.com/post/?q=ZWQzYjZjZjdmOGQwOTY1NTQ3ZmM0N2M1NDUwYjY1MDA="&gt;cowardly verbal assault&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;on President Obama.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You know that the teabaggers are only doing this as a ploy to establish their own shallow diversity credentials.&amp;nbsp; What better way to do that than by rallying around a guy with an asian&amp;nbsp;name?&amp;nbsp; Below the surface however, the magnitude of their folly becomes apparent, considering Justice Alito doesn't even look Japanese.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7061490172150208439-7681228916919872105?l=trentonpowers.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://trentonpowers.blogspot.com/feeds/7681228916919872105/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://trentonpowers.blogspot.com/2010/01/while-i-continue-to-bask-in-usual-post.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7061490172150208439/posts/default/7681228916919872105'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7061490172150208439/posts/default/7681228916919872105'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://trentonpowers.blogspot.com/2010/01/while-i-continue-to-bask-in-usual-post.html' title='While I continue to bask in the usual post State of The Union afterglow'/><author><name>Trenton Powers-Mellencamp</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02890452025044001110</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='23' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_EOx9wP3Fj10/SbxZzOYEUTI/AAAAAAAAAG0/_xl59Z4YNjo/S220/policesketch.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7061490172150208439.post-1381087884802831036</id><published>2010-01-28T07:46:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2010-01-28T07:47:32.323-07:00</updated><title type='text'>It is easy to forget that Obama is black</title><content type='html'>It makes perfect sense.   President Obama has lighter skin and does not speak with a negro dialect unless he wants to. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I too forgot for an hour that He was black.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7061490172150208439-1381087884802831036?l=trentonpowers.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://trentonpowers.blogspot.com/feeds/1381087884802831036/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://trentonpowers.blogspot.com/2010/01/it-is-easy-to-forget-that-obama-is.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7061490172150208439/posts/default/1381087884802831036'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7061490172150208439/posts/default/1381087884802831036'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://trentonpowers.blogspot.com/2010/01/it-is-easy-to-forget-that-obama-is.html' title='It is easy to forget that Obama is black'/><author><name>Ellie Light</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12283007165243597020</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7061490172150208439.post-1110907546926933117</id><published>2010-01-27T21:16:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2010-01-27T21:16:02.374-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Obama knocked it out of the ballpark tonight!!1!</title><content type='html'>Wow!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If there was a feature available via blogger wherein I could advertise my current emotional status, mine would be set to read 'aroused'!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Listening to Obama tonight I completely forgot he was black.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7061490172150208439-1110907546926933117?l=trentonpowers.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://trentonpowers.blogspot.com/feeds/1110907546926933117/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://trentonpowers.blogspot.com/2010/01/obama-knocked-it-out-of-ballpark.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7061490172150208439/posts/default/1110907546926933117'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7061490172150208439/posts/default/1110907546926933117'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://trentonpowers.blogspot.com/2010/01/obama-knocked-it-out-of-ballpark.html' title='Obama knocked it out of the ballpark tonight!!1!'/><author><name>Trenton Powers-Mellencamp</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02890452025044001110</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='23' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_EOx9wP3Fj10/SbxZzOYEUTI/AAAAAAAAAG0/_xl59Z4YNjo/S220/policesketch.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7061490172150208439.post-1756915927000721204</id><published>2010-01-27T12:02:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2010-01-27T12:02:25.389-07:00</updated><title type='text'>I am totally pumped up for the State of the Union speech tonight</title><content type='html'>I mean it.&amp;nbsp; I am PSYCHED!&amp;nbsp; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You should be too.&amp;nbsp; Think about it.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; How many times do you have the opportunity to see PRESIDENT BARRACK OBAMA speaking on NATIONAL television?&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;This is awesome. Freakin' awesome!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I thought about live blogging it but I found last time I did live-blogging an event of this magnitude (a lot of you dont remember but I live-blogged 9/11) I dont have as much time to pay attention to what he is saying.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; I would like to hear the message as it is spoken.&amp;nbsp; The spoken message.&amp;nbsp; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Do you dig that?&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7061490172150208439-1756915927000721204?l=trentonpowers.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://trentonpowers.blogspot.com/feeds/1756915927000721204/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://trentonpowers.blogspot.com/2010/01/i-am-totally-pumped-up-for-state-of.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7061490172150208439/posts/default/1756915927000721204'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7061490172150208439/posts/default/1756915927000721204'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://trentonpowers.blogspot.com/2010/01/i-am-totally-pumped-up-for-state-of.html' title='I am totally pumped up for the State of the Union speech tonight'/><author><name>Trenton Powers-Mellencamp</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02890452025044001110</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='23' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_EOx9wP3Fj10/SbxZzOYEUTI/AAAAAAAAAG0/_xl59Z4YNjo/S220/policesketch.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7061490172150208439.post-915139544190811176</id><published>2010-01-25T13:25:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2010-01-25T13:25:36.533-07:00</updated><title type='text'>You sonsabitches!  I am NOT DAVID AXELROD!</title><content type='html'>GIVE IT A REST&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7061490172150208439-915139544190811176?l=trentonpowers.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://trentonpowers.blogspot.com/feeds/915139544190811176/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://trentonpowers.blogspot.com/2010/01/you-sonsabitches-i-am-not-david-axelrod.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7061490172150208439/posts/default/915139544190811176'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7061490172150208439/posts/default/915139544190811176'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://trentonpowers.blogspot.com/2010/01/you-sonsabitches-i-am-not-david-axelrod.html' title='You sonsabitches!  I am NOT DAVID AXELROD!'/><author><name>Ellie Light</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12283007165243597020</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7061490172150208439.post-2652719894464645806</id><published>2010-01-24T08:29:00.002-07:00</published><updated>2010-01-24T08:42:05.593-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Pernicious rumors perpetrated by teabaggers</title><content type='html'>FYI I am not David Axelrod and I am not astroturf.   I am a real human being with real human emotions.  I also have a very common name, but don't take my word for it.  Look in your local phone book.  In my local area alone, there are three Ellie Light's listed.  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As for the letters from other Ellie Light's in other areas throughout the nation, if you read the letter with an open mind you will see that my points are common sense and reality based and that anyone, even another Ellie Light could easily have come up with the same material.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7061490172150208439-2652719894464645806?l=trentonpowers.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://trentonpowers.blogspot.com/feeds/2652719894464645806/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://trentonpowers.blogspot.com/2010/01/pernicious-rumors-perpetrated-by.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7061490172150208439/posts/default/2652719894464645806'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7061490172150208439/posts/default/2652719894464645806'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://trentonpowers.blogspot.com/2010/01/pernicious-rumors-perpetrated-by.html' title='Pernicious rumors perpetrated by teabaggers'/><author><name>Ellie Light</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12283007165243597020</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7061490172150208439.post-2603895619082435766</id><published>2010-01-23T15:53:00.002-07:00</published><updated>2010-01-23T16:15:55.311-07:00</updated><title type='text'>US woes can't be cured over night.  Solutions take time.  Obama never promised solutions would be quick and easy</title><content type='html'>&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;em&gt;A YEAR AGO, if we'd read that employers were hiring again, that health-care&lt;br /&gt;legislation was proceeding without a bump, that Afghanistan suddenly was a nice&lt;br /&gt;place to take kids, we'd have known we were being lied to. We knew the problems&lt;br /&gt;President Obama inherited wouldn't go away overnight.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;During his campaign, Obama clearly said that an economy that took eight&lt;br /&gt;years to break couldn't be fixed in a year, that Afghanistan was a graveyard of&lt;br /&gt;empires and would not be an easy venture for us. Candidate Obama didn't feed us&lt;br /&gt;happy talk, which is why we elected him. He never said America could solve our&lt;br /&gt;health care, economic and security problems without raising the deficit.&lt;br /&gt;Instead, he talked of hard choices, of government taking painful and contentious&lt;br /&gt;first steps towards fixing problems that can't be left for another day.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Right after the election, we seemed to grasp this. We understood that&lt;br /&gt;companies would be happy to squeeze more work out of frightened employees, and would be slow to hire.   We understood that the banks were lying when they&lt;br /&gt;said they'd share their recovery. That a national consensus on health care&lt;br /&gt;wouldn't come easily. Candidate Obama never claimed that his proposed solutions&lt;br /&gt;would work flawlessly right out of the box, and we respected him for that.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Today, the president is being attacked as if he'd promised that our&lt;br /&gt;problems would wash off in the morning. He never did. It's time for Americans to&lt;br /&gt;realize that governing is hard work, and that a president can't just wave a&lt;br /&gt;magic wand and fix everything.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7061490172150208439-2603895619082435766?l=trentonpowers.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://trentonpowers.blogspot.com/feeds/2603895619082435766/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://trentonpowers.blogspot.com/2010/01/us-woes-cant-be-cured-over-night.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7061490172150208439/posts/default/2603895619082435766'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7061490172150208439/posts/default/2603895619082435766'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://trentonpowers.blogspot.com/2010/01/us-woes-cant-be-cured-over-night.html' title='US woes can&apos;t be cured over night.  Solutions take time.  Obama never promised solutions would be quick and easy'/><author><name>Ellie Light</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12283007165243597020</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7061490172150208439.post-7221735548642983135</id><published>2010-01-23T10:57:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2010-01-23T10:58:03.230-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Welcome the newest member of the team</title><content type='html'>I'm happy to announce that none other than Ellie Light has agreed to join the Trenton Powers blog&amp;nbsp;team.&amp;nbsp; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ellie has published letters in numerous newspapers across the country, including &lt;a href="http://www.philly.com/dailynews/opinion/20100119_Letters__U_S__woes_can_t_be_cured_overnight.html"&gt;Philadelphia Daily News&lt;/a&gt;,&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://www.sfexaminer.com/opinion/82120147.html"&gt;San Francisco Examiner&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://www.mansfieldnewsjournal.com/article/20100113/OPINION03/1130317/Obama-never-promised-solutions-would-be-quick-and-easy"&gt;Mansfield News Journal&lt;/a&gt;, and numerous others.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; Her steadfast support of President Obama's agenda and has gained renown&amp;nbsp;nationwide and further solidifed&amp;nbsp;her already&amp;nbsp;impeccable progressive credentials.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7061490172150208439-7221735548642983135?l=trentonpowers.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://trentonpowers.blogspot.com/feeds/7221735548642983135/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://trentonpowers.blogspot.com/2010/01/welcome-newest-member-of-team.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7061490172150208439/posts/default/7221735548642983135'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7061490172150208439/posts/default/7221735548642983135'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://trentonpowers.blogspot.com/2010/01/welcome-newest-member-of-team.html' title='Welcome the newest member of the team'/><author><name>Trenton Powers-Mellencamp</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02890452025044001110</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='23' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_EOx9wP3Fj10/SbxZzOYEUTI/AAAAAAAAAG0/_xl59Z4YNjo/S220/policesketch.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7061490172150208439.post-8179806830379906316</id><published>2010-01-22T07:42:00.002-07:00</published><updated>2010-01-22T08:35:53.796-07:00</updated><title type='text'>This week in unfortunate team names</title><content type='html'>The University of Utah women's gymnastics team, which struggles with its own unfortunate&amp;nbsp;team name&amp;nbsp;is going to &lt;a href="http://www.ksl.com/?nid=148&amp;amp;sid=9424578"&gt;compete&lt;/a&gt; tonight against Georgia, whose women's team bears the unfortunate nickname:&amp;nbsp; gym dogs.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I've seen their &lt;a href="http://www.georgiadogs.com/SportSelect.dbml?&amp;amp;DB_OEM_ID=8800&amp;amp;SPID=4004&amp;amp;SPSID=44933"&gt;website&lt;/a&gt;.&amp;nbsp; They aren't dogs.&amp;nbsp; Most of them have&amp;nbsp;huge thighs, but thats pretty hot when you think about it.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7061490172150208439-8179806830379906316?l=trentonpowers.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://trentonpowers.blogspot.com/feeds/8179806830379906316/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://trentonpowers.blogspot.com/2010/01/unfortunate-team-name.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7061490172150208439/posts/default/8179806830379906316'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7061490172150208439/posts/default/8179806830379906316'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://trentonpowers.blogspot.com/2010/01/unfortunate-team-name.html' title='This week in unfortunate team names'/><author><name>Trenton Powers-Mellencamp</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02890452025044001110</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='23' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_EOx9wP3Fj10/SbxZzOYEUTI/AAAAAAAAAG0/_xl59Z4YNjo/S220/policesketch.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7061490172150208439.post-8876776979520730862</id><published>2010-01-21T20:07:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2010-01-21T20:07:05.678-07:00</updated><title type='text'>What does one blog about on a slow news day?</title><content type='html'>I imagine God, omnipotent, omniscient sitting astride his heavenly throne surveying all he created.&amp;nbsp; Every snowflake falling by his design, every life form in the universe existing by his will.&amp;nbsp; Knowing all and seeing all... &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;...and laughing like a madman as bobsled racer &lt;a href="http://www.breitbart.tv/uk-olympian-suffers-major-wardrobe-malfunction-on-bobsled-track/"&gt;Gillian Cooke&lt;/a&gt; tore the ass end of her bodysuit.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7061490172150208439-8876776979520730862?l=trentonpowers.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://trentonpowers.blogspot.com/feeds/8876776979520730862/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://trentonpowers.blogspot.com/2010/01/what-does-one-blog-about-on-slow-news.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7061490172150208439/posts/default/8876776979520730862'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7061490172150208439/posts/default/8876776979520730862'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://trentonpowers.blogspot.com/2010/01/what-does-one-blog-about-on-slow-news.html' title='What does one blog about on a slow news day?'/><author><name>Trenton Powers-Mellencamp</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02890452025044001110</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='23' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_EOx9wP3Fj10/SbxZzOYEUTI/AAAAAAAAAG0/_xl59Z4YNjo/S220/policesketch.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7061490172150208439.post-3389264272038161381</id><published>2010-01-20T19:18:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2010-01-20T19:18:25.216-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Stupid Russians</title><content type='html'>HA HA&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;They're &lt;a href="http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/22f1bd26-05db-11df-8c97-00144feabdc0.html"&gt;buying&lt;/a&gt; Canadian currency now.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But the joke is on Ivan.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; Canadian money doesn't work in vending machines!&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;HA HA HA HA&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;fools&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7061490172150208439-3389264272038161381?l=trentonpowers.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://trentonpowers.blogspot.com/feeds/3389264272038161381/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://trentonpowers.blogspot.com/2010/01/stupid-russians.html#comment-form' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7061490172150208439/posts/default/3389264272038161381'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7061490172150208439/posts/default/3389264272038161381'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://trentonpowers.blogspot.com/2010/01/stupid-russians.html' title='Stupid Russians'/><author><name>Trenton Powers-Mellencamp</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02890452025044001110</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='23' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_EOx9wP3Fj10/SbxZzOYEUTI/AAAAAAAAAG0/_xl59Z4YNjo/S220/policesketch.jpg'/></author><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7061490172150208439.post-9131631782171251235</id><published>2010-01-19T21:39:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2010-01-19T21:39:12.643-07:00</updated><title type='text'>I think if the rest of the country held a vote over whether or not to sink Massachusetts into the ocean</title><content type='html'>Several million Bostards would need galoshes.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7061490172150208439-9131631782171251235?l=trentonpowers.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://trentonpowers.blogspot.com/feeds/9131631782171251235/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://trentonpowers.blogspot.com/2010/01/i-think-if-rest-of-country-held-vote.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7061490172150208439/posts/default/9131631782171251235'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7061490172150208439/posts/default/9131631782171251235'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://trentonpowers.blogspot.com/2010/01/i-think-if-rest-of-country-held-vote.html' title='I think if the rest of the country held a vote over whether or not to sink Massachusetts into the ocean'/><author><name>Trenton Powers-Mellencamp</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02890452025044001110</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='23' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_EOx9wP3Fj10/SbxZzOYEUTI/AAAAAAAAAG0/_xl59Z4YNjo/S220/policesketch.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7061490172150208439.post-4824769252196117070</id><published>2010-01-18T16:57:00.003-07:00</published><updated>2010-01-18T20:30:06.998-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='exerpts'/><title type='text'>I'm writing a new book.   Here's a teaser</title><content type='html'>&lt;blockquote&gt;Watching her emerge from the pool, I was transfixed by her awe inspiring beauty.&amp;nbsp; A body chiseled in granite by ancient gods.&amp;nbsp; Beads of water&amp;nbsp;teased her&amp;nbsp;bronzed&amp;nbsp;breasts and&amp;nbsp;traced enticing rivulets&amp;nbsp;down legs built for high heels.&amp;nbsp; Her mahogany&amp;nbsp;eyes pierced my soul, igniting a nuclear furnace in my heart.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;From that moment, I made it my mission to one day stick my finger in her bunghole.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;No release date yet.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7061490172150208439-4824769252196117070?l=trentonpowers.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://trentonpowers.blogspot.com/feeds/4824769252196117070/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://trentonpowers.blogspot.com/2010/01/im-writing-new-book-heres-teaser.html#comment-form' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7061490172150208439/posts/default/4824769252196117070'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7061490172150208439/posts/default/4824769252196117070'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://trentonpowers.blogspot.com/2010/01/im-writing-new-book-heres-teaser.html' title='I&apos;m writing a new book.   Here&apos;s a teaser'/><author><name>Trenton Powers-Mellencamp</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02890452025044001110</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='23' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_EOx9wP3Fj10/SbxZzOYEUTI/AAAAAAAAAG0/_xl59Z4YNjo/S220/policesketch.jpg'/></author><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7061490172150208439.post-5101531288072249477</id><published>2010-01-18T07:33:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2010-01-18T07:33:32.968-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Trying something new for MLK day this year</title><content type='html'>Instead of toeing this ideological line this year and honoring Martin Luther King through community service, I'm going&amp;nbsp;to&amp;nbsp;deviate&amp;nbsp;slightly from my well documented&amp;nbsp;progressive ideals and try something new.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I'm going to:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;Go to work&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Earn my paycheck&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Pay my own bills&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Feed my own family&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Live within my means&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;I pledge not to:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;Perpetuate a culture of hopelessness and apathy&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Hold animosity toward others&amp;nbsp;simply because they&amp;nbsp;make more money than I&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Wait for someone else to help me&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Hate those who don't&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This is for today only, because it's a holliday.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7061490172150208439-5101531288072249477?l=trentonpowers.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://trentonpowers.blogspot.com/feeds/5101531288072249477/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://trentonpowers.blogspot.com/2010/01/trying-something-new-for-mlk-day-this.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7061490172150208439/posts/default/5101531288072249477'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7061490172150208439/posts/default/5101531288072249477'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://trentonpowers.blogspot.com/2010/01/trying-something-new-for-mlk-day-this.html' title='Trying something new for MLK day this year'/><author><name>Trenton Powers-Mellencamp</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02890452025044001110</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='23' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_EOx9wP3Fj10/SbxZzOYEUTI/AAAAAAAAAG0/_xl59Z4YNjo/S220/policesketch.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7061490172150208439.post-4715089785966754515</id><published>2010-01-17T19:02:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2010-01-17T19:02:50.356-07:00</updated><title type='text'>The longer the Golden Globes wears on without incident, the lower the chance of a sniper attack</title><content type='html'>Maybe next year.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7061490172150208439-4715089785966754515?l=trentonpowers.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://trentonpowers.blogspot.com/feeds/4715089785966754515/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://trentonpowers.blogspot.com/2010/01/longer-golden-globes-wears-on-without.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7061490172150208439/posts/default/4715089785966754515'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7061490172150208439/posts/default/4715089785966754515'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://trentonpowers.blogspot.com/2010/01/longer-golden-globes-wears-on-without.html' title='The longer the Golden Globes wears on without incident, the lower the chance of a sniper attack'/><author><name>Trenton Powers-Mellencamp</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02890452025044001110</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='23' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_EOx9wP3Fj10/SbxZzOYEUTI/AAAAAAAAAG0/_xl59Z4YNjo/S220/policesketch.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7061490172150208439.post-4699655444832643256</id><published>2010-01-16T12:58:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2010-01-18T17:03:31.000-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Five years ago, American military response to a natural disaster in another country populated by people with a different skin color gave us pause...</title><content type='html'>TIME Magazine,&amp;nbsp; January 18, 2005&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &lt;a href="http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1018101,00.html"&gt;When Aid Breeds Suspicion&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;But three weeks into the tsunami-relief operation, the U.S. is realizing the limits of its good intentions. The sight of American boots and hardware on Indonesian soil has fueled nationalist fears and stirred suspicions about the U.S. Indonesian newspapers reported last week that a text message was being forwarded around the country that reads, "After Iraq, will Indonesia be the next U.S. target?"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;TIME Magazine,&amp;nbsp; January 16, 2010&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &lt;a href="http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1953379_1953494_1954326,00.html"&gt;The U.S. Military in Haiti: A Compassionate Invasion&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;Louisiana became the 18th of the United States back in 1812, but you'd never have known it watching the Federal government's ham-fisted response to 2005's Hurricane Katrina. The Obama Administration is doing things differently: Haiti, for all intents and purposes, became the 51st state at 4:53 p.m. Tuesday in the wake of its deadly earthquake. If not a state, then at least a ward of the state — the United States — as Washington mobilized national resources to rush urgent aid to Haiti's stricken people.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;Prediction:&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Undersecretary-General_for_Humanitarian_Affairs_and_Emergency_Relief_Coordinator"&gt;Sir John Holmes&lt;/a&gt; (no relation...I think...)&amp;nbsp;bites his tongue and does&amp;nbsp;not&amp;nbsp;go all&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2004/dec/28/20041228-122330-7268r/"&gt;Jan Egeland&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;on us.&amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;UPDATE (1/18/2010):&amp;nbsp; France protests Obamas &lt;a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/centralamericaandthecaribbean/haiti/7020908/US-accused-of-occupying-Haiti-as-troops-flood-in.html"&gt;naked aggression&lt;/a&gt; against calamity ravaged Haiti.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7061490172150208439-4699655444832643256?l=trentonpowers.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://trentonpowers.blogspot.com/feeds/4699655444832643256/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://trentonpowers.blogspot.com/2010/01/five-years-ago-american-military.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7061490172150208439/posts/default/4699655444832643256'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7061490172150208439/posts/default/4699655444832643256'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://trentonpowers.blogspot.com/2010/01/five-years-ago-american-military.html' title='Five years ago, American military response to a natural disaster in another country populated by people with a different skin color gave us pause...'/><author><name>Trenton Powers-Mellencamp</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02890452025044001110</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='23' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_EOx9wP3Fj10/SbxZzOYEUTI/AAAAAAAAAG0/_xl59Z4YNjo/S220/policesketch.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7061490172150208439.post-8673943034823836776</id><published>2010-01-16T09:44:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2010-01-16T18:17:15.056-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Fat Dixie Chick conspicuously absent from new Dixie Chick project</title><content type='html'>The piece on &lt;a href="http://new.music.yahoo.com/blogs/vivanashvegas/15201/its-the-dixie-chicks-minus-one-chick/"&gt;yahoo music&lt;/a&gt; does not address rampant speculation that the fat Dixie Chick may be collaborating with Carnie Wilson, Ann Wilson&amp;nbsp;and Stevie Nicks.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I have no idea what those&amp;nbsp;women could possibly have in common.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7061490172150208439-8673943034823836776?l=trentonpowers.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://trentonpowers.blogspot.com/feeds/8673943034823836776/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://trentonpowers.blogspot.com/2010/01/fat-dixie-chick-conspicuously-absent.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7061490172150208439/posts/default/8673943034823836776'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7061490172150208439/posts/default/8673943034823836776'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://trentonpowers.blogspot.com/2010/01/fat-dixie-chick-conspicuously-absent.html' title='Fat Dixie Chick conspicuously absent from new Dixie Chick project'/><author><name>Trenton Powers-Mellencamp</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02890452025044001110</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='23' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_EOx9wP3Fj10/SbxZzOYEUTI/AAAAAAAAAG0/_xl59Z4YNjo/S220/policesketch.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7061490172150208439.post-7003368335939771570</id><published>2010-01-15T20:49:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2010-01-15T21:30:30.407-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Dallas Cowboys cheerleading squad:  setting reasonable and prudent grooming standards for women everywhere</title><content type='html'>For over 100 years, the Dallas Cowboys cheerleading squad has set the standard for beauty and grace in the cut-throat NFL cheerleading marketplace. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_EOx9wP3Fj10/S1Eg5wL1KOI/AAAAAAAAANA/WIIlscwf1Fo/s1600-h/pt1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_EOx9wP3Fj10/S1Eg5wL1KOI/AAAAAAAAANA/WIIlscwf1Fo/s400/pt1.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;They work long hours for months on end honing team chemistry and individual technique.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_EOx9wP3Fj10/S1Eg84BY87I/AAAAAAAAANI/u58P0D2rQmI/s1600-h/pt2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_EOx9wP3Fj10/S1Eg84BY87I/AAAAAAAAANI/u58P0D2rQmI/s400/pt2.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;Every move is professionally choreographed.&amp;nbsp; Timing for highly&amp;nbsp; specialized dance moves is narrowed to split seconds.&amp;nbsp; Their precision easily the equal of the United States Marine Corps silent drill team.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_EOx9wP3Fj10/S1Eg-wTwWAI/AAAAAAAAANQ/rffotxQK_ok/s1600-h/pt3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_EOx9wP3Fj10/S1Eg-wTwWAI/AAAAAAAAANQ/rffotxQK_ok/s400/pt3.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;Americas sweethearts.&amp;nbsp; Kind, gentle souls. Never lacking a smile for a crippled or handicap kid or veteran with his legs blown off in 'nam or whatever.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_EOx9wP3Fj10/S1EhBBp6E3I/AAAAAAAAANY/GjAMY7FAF8k/s1600-h/pt4.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_EOx9wP3Fj10/S1EhBBp6E3I/AAAAAAAAANY/GjAMY7FAF8k/s400/pt4.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;Lean.&amp;nbsp; Lithe.&amp;nbsp; Possessed of feline grace and unshakable moral pulchritude.&amp;nbsp; Keepers of a standard all but lost in contemporary American society.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_EOx9wP3Fj10/S1EhC-W9G3I/AAAAAAAAANg/2_Uw4UzoZ38/s1600-h/pt5.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_EOx9wP3Fj10/S1EhC-W9G3I/AAAAAAAAANg/2_Uw4UzoZ38/s400/pt5.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-large;"&gt;OMG! SEQUINS!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7061490172150208439-7003368335939771570?l=trentonpowers.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://trentonpowers.blogspot.com/feeds/7003368335939771570/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://trentonpowers.blogspot.com/2010/01/dallas-cowboys-cheerleading-squad.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7061490172150208439/posts/default/7003368335939771570'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7061490172150208439/posts/default/7003368335939771570'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://trentonpowers.blogspot.com/2010/01/dallas-cowboys-cheerleading-squad.html' title='Dallas Cowboys cheerleading squad:  setting reasonable and prudent grooming standards for women everywhere'/><author><name>Trenton Powers-Mellencamp</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02890452025044001110</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='23' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_EOx9wP3Fj10/SbxZzOYEUTI/AAAAAAAAAG0/_xl59Z4YNjo/S220/policesketch.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_EOx9wP3Fj10/S1Eg5wL1KOI/AAAAAAAAANA/WIIlscwf1Fo/s72-c/pt1.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7061490172150208439.post-3023420678454120123</id><published>2010-01-15T11:15:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2010-01-15T11:15:49.739-07:00</updated><title type='text'>First Post</title><content type='html'>Launch Day events:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;To celebrate the launch of the new flagship of the Trenton Powers New Media Empire, I am putting the finishing touches on a ground breaking exposé on the grooming practices of the Dallas Cowboys cheerleading squad.&amp;nbsp; &lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Professor Speng Musselman has agreed to join the team as an occasional guest-blogger and editor at large.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7061490172150208439-3023420678454120123?l=trentonpowers.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://trentonpowers.blogspot.com/feeds/3023420678454120123/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://trentonpowers.blogspot.com/2010/01/first-post.html#comment-form' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7061490172150208439/posts/default/3023420678454120123'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7061490172150208439/posts/default/3023420678454120123'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://trentonpowers.blogspot.com/2010/01/first-post.html' title='First Post'/><author><name>Trenton Powers-Mellencamp</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02890452025044001110</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='23' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_EOx9wP3Fj10/SbxZzOYEUTI/AAAAAAAAAG0/_xl59Z4YNjo/S220/policesketch.jpg'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry></feed>
