Gums' Editorial Section

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By Gums

HERE'S ONE FOR YA! What the hell is all this crap about "PRE-Kindergarden." What is going on in this country? Hell kindergarden was meant to get kids used to being around other kids and the start of the learning process, you know, the first year of education. PRE-Kindergarden is nothing more than a free baby sitting service for parents that are to frigging lazy to take care of their own kids. Now they will dump them into a school a year earlier. Soon they will want to put the kids in school the day after they are born! Don't forget we tax payers get to pay for this "FREE" baby sitting service called PRE-kindergarden too. Hell by the time a kid gets into high school, they are bored with school, after all they will already have gone to ten years of school and now have four more in high school (if they pass every year).Then on to four to ten more years in college. Hell why not just let the kids stay in school all of their life and let the taxpayers take care of them and you would never have to worry about them again. Stay home and watch your own kids or hire a baby-sitter to watch them. Don't just dump them in another school thinking you are doing them a favor---Your not!

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I'll bet a lot of you out there either bought or received a gift certificate for Christmas. Well, this is the biggest rip off that has ever been aimed at the shoppers of America. Ya see you don't get a gift "CERTIFICATE" any more. Ya get one of these little plastic cards that look like a credit card. While this may seem like a good thing for some, most people get screwed and the stores are pocketing "MILLIONS" of your dollars. The person who gives you the "CARD" pays what ever amount he/she wants to give you for the card, $20.00, $30.00, $50.00 or what ever. Then you take the card to the store where it was purchased and start shopping. All is well up to this point. Now is when you will start getting screwed by the stores who sold those nice little cards! Here are the problems as I see them-----

1. You have to spend the whole amount of the card---the store will not give you any change back. Sometimes if you scream like hell and demand to speak to a manager you may (if you are lucky) get the unused amount back in cash, but don't hold your breath though.
   
2. The store knows that you will have to spend more than the value of that card to get a higher priced item or add money to it if you have already used the better part of the amount of the card so now they are getting your money too
   
3. Once the card only has fifty cents to a couple dollars left on it to spend, most people just toss it in a drawer and forget about it. They figure there is nothing to buy with that small amount so why bother with the damn card (see # 2 above). This may not sound like much, just a couple of dollars. Stop and think for a minute----if a million people all with just a couple dollars left on their cards, toss them in a drawer, this money becomes pure profit for the issuing stores. Now we are getting screwed out of many millions of dollars by the stores who issue these cards! Don't think the stores don't know this either---they love to screw you out of your money without having to give you anything! I can't believe the public is stupid enough to fall for this. Please, if ya want to give someone a gift, give them cash---a real gift that you had to shop for or check with the store you are buying the card at and see what their policy is on giving cash change on their gift cards. When the store tells you they don't give cash as change on a gift card----tell them to "SHOVE THEIR CARD UP THEIR ASS"!!
   

A MAN WITH WAY TO MUCH MONEY

Seems the J.Leno show put a nice new 2005 Harley dresser on E-Bay for auction. Every night on his TV show, his guest stars would sign their name somewhere on the bike with a black magic marker (the bike was all white). This would make the bike more valuable as a collectors item. The night the bidding was to come to a close, the highest bid was for around $200,000.00. The money was to go to the victims of the tsunami a few weeks ago. Personally I thought that 200 grand for a bike was just plain stupid! But it gets better-----During the final minutes a person submitted a final bid------are ya ready for this-----the President and CEO of Waste Management bid $800,100.00 for this bike! Over three quarters of a million dollars! This is the stupidest thing I have heard of in a lot of years--------Now I know why I have to pay so much for the portable shitters when I have a party! True it is his money and he can do what the hell he wants with it----but 800 grand for a bike, hell I'll bet he never even rides it!!!!!!!!!

A LOT OF YOU GUY'S WILL LOVE THIS ONE

Seems there is a bill set for the upcoming state (Florida) legislature this year that will make a lot of X husbands and some X wives happy. SB 152 sponsored by Sen.Gary Siplin (a democrat no less) would require the court to terminate "alimony" payments if the "payer" could prove his or her former spouse is "cohabiting" with a person of the opposite sex. This would mean if the bitch is shacking up with some dude, you wouldn't have to give her party money every month any more. Hell I always called "alimony" "THE SCERWIN YA GET FOR THE SCREWIN YA GOT" anyway. Why the hell should anyone have to pay his/her X money to sit around watching soap operas anyway? So call your Senators and Congressmen and tell them ya don't want to support the bitch any more and ya are in favor of SB 152. This WILL NOT stop child support payments though. Hell ya helped bring them into the world, now you can help pay for them. Child support payments need to be looked at to, but that is another topic for later!

AND THE JACKASS OF THE YEAR AWARD GOES TO ...

Some crooks need to find another line of work. I mean if you pull off a "job" and don't think first---you may just have a problem like these rocket scientists. Seems these four guys figured a quick way to make some cash was to steal a truck making a Federal Reserve Bank cash shipment. So what do these brain dead asswipes do--------they steal a truck making a run to New Orleans from New Jersey. Now you may ask, how much did they get for their daring deed? Well, seems that this truck was carrying----are ya ready for this???---------45,000 pounds of 'NICKELS" that's right---3.8 million "NICKELS." Seems the "job" fell apart when one of the brains of the outfit poured $4,000.00 worth of nickels into one of those change machines ya see in supermarkets. The FBI had told the companies who put those change machines into stores to look out for any "large deposits of nickels." The store in Miami (where else) called the cops cause they thought the deposit was "Unusual." The brain child who tried to cash in the nickels said he "had been saving all his nickels for a year now" Hell my pants fall down if I have four or five bucks in change in my pockets---but four thousand bucks in nickels Damn!!!!! Well, at this point things really started to fall apart. The FBI found $135,200.00 in nickels buried behind a guy's horse stable. The feds are still searching for 896,000 missing nickels or $44,800.00 if ya don't have a calculator. The Feds think one bad (dumb) guy took off for Mexico and the owner of the horse farm where the nickels were found is still missing. So if ya are planing an armored truck job, ya might want to find out what the hell is in it if anything at all. Just watch out for some guy wanting to pay for that bike ya are selling with all nickels-------Ya could have a problem.