The Things You Learn Sitting In a National Tire and Battery Waiting Room

So tonight was a crazy night. What started out as a trip to go watch a local band play a charity benefit concert turned into an expensive evening. It also proved that successful people shouldn't be punished and that we should be concerned about Barack Obama being our President. You are probably scratching your head right now going how in the world is he going to tie all this together.

Me, my car, and a ditch all had an unfriendly and untimely meeting at about 7:30 PM. Unfortunately the ditch won. So I put on the little fake tire and hustled back to my local NTB here in Liberty to see what they could do for me. Now I didn't get to the store until 8:40 PM and it's a Friday night so I expected to maybe get the car looked at and come back in the morning. They close at 9:00 PM. To my pleasant surprise, this was not the case. If you live in the Liberty area and you need tires or something closely related please go there, you won't be disappointed! Larry is the store manager at this NTB and let me tell the man is a breath of fresh air. He was more than happy to keep his guys to work on the car, wanted my business, and expected no less of himself.

I have dealt with Larry before and he is one of those people that want to earn your business and know what it takes to do the right thing. I spent several minutes talking to him, this guy is a working machine. He manages and or helps manage 15 different stores (Indep., Olathe, and other area stores), flies all over the country training other stores, and is basically on track to be a district manager for the company. By all assumptions, without asking, I would venture to say he probably makes over $250,000 a year. To make that kind of money he works close to 80 hours a week. But by our Presidents calculations and many that voted for our President this man is an evil rich person who needs to pay more in taxes.

I am sitting in the lobby going through the available reading material in the lounge and happen to come upon a recent copy of Metal Hammer magazine. Now, I had never seen this rag before and frankly would be happy to never see it again. You see it's a magazine that reports on Heavy Metal bands. Out of curiosity I started thumbing through the pages and was a little taken back by what I saw. First you find the f-word about every other paragraph. Second, I especially thought highly of their advertising section. Did you know that you can receive pornography on your cell phone now, and there is more than one company that will provide it to you? (I hope you realize that was sarcasm.) But the thing that topped it off was the results of the readers poll. The Hero of 2008 according to the losers that read Metal Hammer magazine is none other than, Mr. President himself, Barack Obama! Everyone give him a hand he beat out wonderful competitors like Corey Taylor of Slipknot, James Hetfield of Metallica and even Batman. Who is Slipknot you say? Well here I thought we would have a musical timeout in this blog post for one of their songs. Everyone sing it with me now "F*** this World!"

F*** it all!
F*** this world!
F*** everything that you stand for!
Don't belong! Don't exist!
Don't give a s***!
Don't ever judge me!
And don't you f******* touch me!

You got all my love, livin' in your own hate
Drippin' hole man, hard step, no fate
Show you nuthin', but I ain't holdin' back
Every damn word I say is a sneak attack
When I get my hands on you
Ain't a f****** thing you can do
Get this cuz you're never gonna get me I am the very disease you pretend to be

Slipknot alone has sold over 5 MILLION albums in the US and has had three albums go platinum. Way to go Barry! You have been nominated as the Hero of 2008 by those that think this stuff is entertainment. It's not a subsection of the population anymore, this is becoming mainstream.

Well, I did the responsible thing and challenged Larry about the fact that this magazine was laying around, he wasn't aware it was sitting in his lounge either and quickly disposed of it. Folks I don't know if you get this yet, but we got a problem here. Now I am not saying that all Barack Obama supporters are heavy metal loving moral degenerates but I am saying that you should be concerned about the fact that you support the same candidate as these people. Do you realize why this candidate appeals to people that think with this mindset? Wake up, it's not about helping people anymore. Your good intentioned heart has poisoned this country with a cult of irresponsibility and dependency. This is not the 1930s, 40s, and 50s.

These people voted for this candidate because they perceive harm from the Larry's of the world. This is not right! Larry is a good person, married, has two kids, you know he told me his goal right now is just to be debt free except for his house. Instead you want to subjugate him to these people so they can keep buying their Slipknot CDs and living off of you and me. Wake up America we are going to fail if we keep this up!!!!!! In many ways we already have.