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2009 Starbucks Redesign
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Phoenix, Arizona
Drag Racing History
Old photos of the Perryville and Beeline Dragstrips
President Obama visits
Mesa, Arizona
Mr.Wonderful puts e-mailed photos of Barack Obama's February 18th, 2009 visit to Mesa, Arizona into a table complete with links to the East Valley Tribune's slide show of the same happening.
Spy Shot Central !
"The Road & Track Magazine staff is tapping their sources to bring you the latest insider information on the most anticipated cars testing under wraps!"
Boston.com
The Year in Photographs
(big 990 x 650 pixel shots)
2008, the year in photographs,
page 1 of 3
2008, the year in photographs,
page 2 of 3
2008, the year in photographs,
page 3 of 3
Animal Acts
Photos of animals simply acting amazing or being amazing. No text revealing the circumstances, dates or locations, just photos.
Citroen Import Services
A few photos of rebuilt Citroens, especially the 2CV, the most sold car in the world, and the car Danny DeVito drove in the movie Romancing the Stone.
TrekEarth
"TrekEarth is learning more about the world through photography."
The Banana Graveyard
"Abandon all hope,
ye who enter here"
Found Cameras & Orphan Pictures
"Do you recognize any of these people? Each one of these lost photos came from a found camera or memory stick."
Pink's Hollwood
Celebrity Photos
Armed Forces Day
1950s Photo Archive
MangoFalls
Joe discovers and then develops
other peoples lost or forgotten photos
Images of the Old West
@ Legends of America
Coast to Coast AM
Image Gallery
2003 Edwards AFB Air Show
(Photos by Fred Bruenjas)
Travel Photo Pages:
2001 Mediterranean Cruise
Bizerte, Tunisia Rome, Florence, Pisa, Naples, Amalfi Italy
Nice, France Monaco Barcelona (Gaude's cathedral)
(Monserrat monestary) Malta Messina, Sicily
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Photo Index
is an easy to use, descriptive, webpage linking to hundreds of my old photos
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Recent Buys and Bedstand Books of Mr.Wonderful where I list the most recent books I've bought, with their Barnes & Noble sales ranking, along with the publishers comments.
The MW Review of Books is where I issue eloquent and honest book reviews the everyday reader can comprehend and use as a factor as to whether to purchase the book or not. Go figure, a book review you can believe.
Using simple language and simple logic
MW Talks Politics
Hidden Taxes
visit this page and realize the absolute truth of Mr. Wonderful's proverb that, "Government will never have enough money until it has one hundred percent of every dollar you and I earn."
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Interesting
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zomblog
"zomblog posts are either single photos, or short reports on small events, generally of a political nature"
Slim Paley
Recommended by
Dennis Miller
Crack Skull Bob
Original fine pencil art,
by Ruben Fletcher,
really nice stuff.
The Big Picture
News Stories in Photographs
Freaking News
News Photoshop Contests
What's That Bug?
Huge photoblog of bugs
newyorkshitty.com
OUT MY WINDOW NYC
PHOTOBLOG.HU
Professional-quality
photos out of Hungary
(Click 'archives' link top-left on page)
dotcompals PHOTOBLOG
Professional-quality photos out of India
(to see more photos: go to calendar at bottom right on page )
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Interesting photos out of Germany
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December 2009
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Sunset 101
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Back in November, I took this shot while westbound on the 101 and found I had captured another wonderful sunset caused mostly by the 'pollution' the EPA wants to rid from our Arizona skies.
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December 2009
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Schizo Crossing
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My son spotted this schizo (yellow dot) whose jerky string puppet-like movements indicated he was under distress and in need of immediate care or hospitalization. As our social services re-route more and more of their resources (our tax dollars) to able-bodied, functioning adults (and millions of illegal aliens) we will witness evermore of those truly needing help wandering the streets and populating our prisons.
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December 2009
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Private Jet
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The Sunday after Thanksgiving I watched fifteen of these private jets lift off from Scottsdale Airpark. Only in America.
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December 2009
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Pocket Rocket
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As I left for work Sunday I saw this guy riding his miniature pocket rocket up and down the street. Hard to find a funnier sight.
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November 2009
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Jackass
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The red Spectrum driver was all upset because I turned left onto Cave Creek Road before he could enter the intersection and turn right. So, the Jackass just had to pass me. Now, see the motorcycle in the center lane? Well, the rider also had the gall to turn onto Cave Creek in front of the Speculum driver, however, he had the horsepower to keep ahead of this pinhead.
159 - XSX
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November 2009
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Military Helos
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I heard these two guys coming from a long way away. Not sure what they were doing. The inset photo is some sort of AH64 helicopter painted sky blue. The picture is so poor because they were aiming their video scrambling weapon at me.
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November 2009
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Greenway & Tatum Accident
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Yet another accident on Greenway Parkway. This one at Tatum Boulevard and Greenway on Monday, November 9th, 2009
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November 2009
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Prices on
The QT
Here's the price as of November 22, 2009 of gasoline in Phoenix, Arizona, USA
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November 2009
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Dusk Falls
on the 101
Wednesday, driving Mr.Wonderful III home from his retail job at a discount business, where during the recession of 2007-2012 merchandise is flying off the shelves, we saw this Arizona Highway Patrol truck helping a driver with his, or her, mechanical troubles. As I've stated before, I believe this highly visible public service is one reason many of us encounter our Arizona Highway Patrol (State Police) with less fear in our hearts than we do our municipal police.
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November 2009
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Mirage
Mobiles
Mirage Auto Sales, a literally fly-by-night used car dealer, has flown. However, the other day I think I saw one of their 'Mirage-Mobiles' drive by.
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November 2009
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Albertsons
Accident
Back on the first Tuesday in November I spotted this accident aftermath on the northeast corner of Cave Creek Road and Union Hills. I imagine the individuals on the fence are waiting for La Migras to pick them up and cart them off jail.
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November 2009
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100
Prius
Can you see the light-gray exhaust plume coming out of the tailpipe of this white Ford Crown Victoria driven by a Food City customer? Many vehicles driven by Food City customers do not meet any emission requirements, but you cannot physically see how they are polluting our Arizona skies. I'd guess that this particular POS is pumping out enough garbage to negate the 'non-pollution' of around 100 Toyota Prius.
(For those of you not in Arizona, the only people who shop at Food City speak one language and it isn't English.)
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November 2009
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Green
Nonsense
Here we see one of those green Prius Discount Taxis that no one hopes they'll get picked up by, for they enjoy the comforts of Escalades and Tahoes.
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November 2009
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Greenway
A-Hole
Greenway Parkway never lets me down for witnessing morons driving like idiots. These two winners were flying down the parkway at 55 or 60mph like they could actually beat the traffic lights timed for only 45. To prove they are real hot-shots, the co-pilot must hang his arm out the window.
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November 2009
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Greenway
Crash
Greenway Parkway never lets me down for having accidents to photograph, this one from Friday, November 6th, at 11:07pm.
As a matter of fact, I've got a much worse accident from November 9th at Tatum Boulevard and Greenway Parkway still in the camera.
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October 2009
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420
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I saw this "420" scratched on my mirror in the hovel apartments I live in. Sure it was the graffiti of a killer gang from Guadalupe, Surprise, or possibly Mars, I prepared to write about it.
Telling my daughter of the "420" mirror-scribe she informed me that it was simply the bragging of a pot-head. Why "420"? Because supposedly there are 420 chemicals in marijuana.
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October 2009
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Pusher
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This Piaggio Avanti is a rare sight. My Jane's airplane book states there were only 120 manufactured. You can hear this aircraft coming quite a ways off. My pocket camera is too small to get a decent photo, so I've included a photo I borrowed from the AirSpace web page.
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October 2009
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Cave Creek
Dead
On my way to the closest Bank of America branch Wednesday evening
I saw that Cave Creek Road south of the weird Thunderbird-Cactus intersection was ribboned-off indicating one or more people died tonight. No more worries for them, mate.
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October 2009
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Multiple
Mormons
I keep telling everyone that I live in an especially dangerous neighborhood. I think this is proof of that in triplet.
When is the last time you've had three Mormon missionaries come to your door? I will bet you one is fluent in border-Spanish.
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October 2009
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Cell Scam
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I received this message the other day. The first thing I did was to check my two credit cards and neither of them had these numbers. The next day I phoned the 877-539-1561 and found the number was not working. Plus I have no idea what "CU West" is. Must have been some kind of scam.
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October 17, 2009
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Happy Halloween
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Still want to move to The Valley of the Sun, Hotshot?
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October
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Speed Racers
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Every afternoon and every evening I putt down Greenway Parkway
at exactly 4mph over the 40 or 45 mile per hour speed limit (64kph) because I know, and rightly so, that Phoenix cops will ticket at only 5mph over the posted limit.
So Saturday night at around 11:15pm on my way home, I heard these two racing before I saw them. Being the traffic signals are timed, I knew it wouldn't be long until I caught up with them. What was surprising was how loud they were, and how slow they were.
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October
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Paparazzo
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I simply just haven't been seeing that many things of interest lately.
However, I still appear to be of interest of the paparazzi's at ABC-15, as their helicopter overflies my gatehouse several times each day. For all I know, I may be on a reality show starring me. And you all know how much I would hate that.
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October
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Safe Axle
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As those of you who know Mr.Wonderful also know that I raced off-road motorcycles for 21 years.
You might not know that I totally destroyed two full coverage helmets and lived to tell the story. Of course, now in later life my brain is certainly paying for it...where was I?
Apparently the motorcycle rider in the photo is more concerned with protecting his rear axle than his head, and, if he voted for Obama, this is a good thing.
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October
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Tricycle
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The other day, this dork on a three-wheeled motorcycle went screaming by us. I guess they are approved for use by waterheads. I especially loved the 1935 Indianapolis 500 helmet.
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October
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Cheese Paper
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I've been working between 8am and 1pm moving for the past three weeks, pretty much rushing from my apartment to the office, then back home again to sleep, and to then wake up at 8am and start packing again and transporting boxes to my new location while emptying and cleaning up my old abode.
So as I was eating my homemade ham and cheese the other day at the shack, I kept ending up with a wad of paper in my mouth. After the second spit-wad, I pried open the sandwich and saw that I'd forgotten to pull out the paper that was between the pieces of my real cheese before I included it.
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September
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Magnet
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I'd heard about the new Dunkin' Donuts on the corner of 32nd Street & Cactus Road in Phoenix, Arizona, I'd just not been able to pick it out of the crowd until they put the huge coffee cup on the roof. But someone else beat me to it. I wonder if they used lights and siren?
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September
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Hybrid Vegetables?
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Someone over at my Tatum & Shea Boulevard Albertson's is confused on so many levels. And no, I did not move the sign. My reality is actual reality, especially after nine or so Heinekens.
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September
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Not Safe Way
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Another car crash on Greenway. It's no wonder the Phoenix police ticket people for going five miles per hour over the 45/40mph speed limit.
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September
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Halfway
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A rare half-a-rainbow came out the other day.
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September
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Greenway
Hatrick
Yah dumb-phucks. What will it take for you loonies to slow down, not tailgate, and pay attention? Does your life have to be forever altered, or even ended (or rear-ended) before you drive like you have a brain in your head?
Here we have a three-vehicle pileup. Morons.
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September
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Cactus
Accident
Driving west on Cactus Road around 30th Street, I saw the aftermath of this accident on Saturday, September 12th, 2009 around 7:30am.
So many people in Phoenix drive as if they are Super-Heroes, when they really aren't, we have these crashes quite often.
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September
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Fountain
Fun
At the end of summer, at Kierland Commons, I watched a grandmother take photos of her progeny playing amongst the ever popular dancing fountains.
As I was standing there, watching, wishing, an older guy, as he walked by said to me, "We wish we could be doing that too."
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September
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Screaming
Segways
I saw these two Segways running down the street. In the lead we see the "Single-handed-soon-to-crash", racing up behind is the "Red-topped-sidewalk-mite."
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September
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Sheriff Joe's
Helicopter
Don't know much about helicopters, but I can hear Sheriff Joe's coming 45 seconds before I see it, before it flies over my guard shack about three times every day.
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September
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Dumb Sh*t
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On Friday this moron came screaming up behind me and stayed about three feet off my rear bumper for many hundreds of yards. I actually thought he was going to rear-end me. After he passed me and accelerated to around 60mph, 32 blocks later I easily caught up to him stopped at one of Greenway Parkway's timed traffic signals. An idiot endangering us all: Arizona LPN 676ZCP.
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September
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Spiked Crosser
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I spotted this, construction worker crossing Scottsdale Road at Greenway Parkway proudly wearing his rooster look-at-me hair-do. If anyone tells him what a goof he looks like, they don't do it to his face.
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September
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Double Trouble
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I saw this the other day on the drive to work. This would be fine if it were 1920 in Chicago, but in the 21st Century this kind of thing is illegal on probably a dozen counts. You don't really think the County Health Inspectors inspect these wheeled-salmonella buckets? Who also don't possess a business license or, most important of all, collect sales tax.
While the comical Arizona Republic newspaper lists the results of health inspections at food servers who pay thousands of dollars a month in rent alone, these guys, because they are the favored 'migrants' push their carts under any and all radar.
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September
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Journey Junk
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Here is one of the latest vehicles from Chyrsler, and although too early to have been designed by the Kill-American-Life communists in Washington, D.C. I'm sure they approve of this butt-ugly pregant Caliber-looking thing called the Journey.
Like I've been telling you my neighborhood has more cops than most have fire hydrants. And that is a good thing.
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August
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Helo Photography
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Every time a helicopter flies close enough to my gatehouse to be able to be clearly captured on my sub-compact pocket camera, I leap out of the air-conditioned confines of my office and snap a picture.
If you look at the guy in the rear window, he looks like he's taking a photo of me, while I'm taking a photo of him. It's not easy being a dead ringer for Tom Selleck.
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August
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Repo vs. Repo
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You know times are tough when the 'Repo-man' is repoed hisself.
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August
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Yankee
Ingenuity
I got another photo of one of these unlicensed gasoline engine-powered motorbikes.
The engine appears to be off of some sort of powered hand tool with the final output a tiny wheel that pushes against the rear tire. It's not loud at all and if the engine doesn't apply enough power on the uphills, the rider has the option to add his pedal power.
With Obama's plans on Cap & Trade, with its imaginary limits on unmeasurable emissions of carbon dioxide, and his belief that gasoline should be selling at more than $4 a gallon ($1.06 per liter) anyone making less than around $30,000 a year (£18,400) will for certain be riding one of these.
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August
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Ultra
Strange
Helo
I heard this beast a dozen minutes before I saw it. At first, having a flash-back from all the Vietnam War movies I've seen, I thought it was a HUEY coming in to rescue me, the last survivor at our forward lookout point, but when the HUEY didn't show, I went back to work killing gooks.
I'll have to look this peculiar and quite-large beast up in my Jane's Aircraft Recognition Guide , and the closest helicopter it resembles is Bell AH-1 SuperCobra. (8/24/2009...one of my son's has informed me that it is a brand new 'model Z' of the AH-1)
Just what you need flying over your city, eh? Right, if you're in Afghanistan.
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August
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Apartment Fun
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Coming in the back way to my apartment complex Thursday night, as I pulled around front and into my covered parking space (that the drunken illegal alien decided not to use) I saw two Phoenix police cars and four officers talking to one of my neighbors and took this photo at 800asa. Thank God for the cops.
And this time, when they left, they even switched the rolling gate back on, meaning it closed after they drove off. Being a gate guard, I'm concerned about things like that; that and whether living in my car, it would be more comfortable to sleep upright in the front seat, or sleep laying down crunched-up in the back seat with my hand wrapped around my Browning .380 auto.
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August
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Today's Idiot Driver
Here is today's idiot. Of course I'm fairly sure the driver was an illegal alien and they aren't intelligent enough to be even called an idiot.
In any case while the traffic light was turning yellow, on its was to red this moron cut in front of me right before the intersection, right when I might have accelerated to 'make the light' resulting in an collision. Illegals, gotta love 'em. There isn't a place in Phoenix that isn't better off because of illegals.
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August
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Hot Dog!
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I saw this little yellow thing coming at me the other morning. It took me a while to figure out it's a hot dog vendor cart that can be unfolded when it gets to its destination. They've been using this in India for decades. As America descends further into federally-driven destitution, many more of these will be seen. We'll all end up selling hot-dogs to each other. What fun. Pass the mustard.
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August
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Bare Back
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While Mr. Wonderful is chronically griping about everything and everyone, I am not blind to how very, very fortunate I am.
As we passed this wheelchair-bound fellow, the dash outside temperature gauge read 108F (42.2C) degrees.
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August
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Turtle Race
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Saw these two extremely attractive Prius's on the way home the other morning. The one on the left is an earlier model, while the right-hand one is a later version. Course the newer Prius driver had to show us how much faster his car with a 144 pound (65k), $5,000 battery was than the older version.
Neither of this nitwits realize that there is no country that comes close to our level of restricting auto exhaust emissions, and that there are hundreds of millions of vehicles in India and China, of which the tailpipe exhaust of only one negates the efforts of twenty Prius drivers. And then we have our own illegal aliens careening around in decades-old unregulated minivans that pollute 100 or more times than a single Prius.
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August
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Corner Moron
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Brandy was tail-gating me many blocks northbound on Cave Creek Road, and then we came to the right turn onto Greenway (just 'Greenway', no 'Dr', no 'Blvd', no 'Parkway') which I took at my normal pace. After my turn, looking into my rear view mirror I saw this VW EOS, no longer tail-gating, but about eight car-lengths behind my Chevy POS.
Of course, then she had to fly by me once on Greenway Parkway, only to end up at the next traffic signal, as I knew she would. Brandy, "Any moron can tail gate, you need to learn to drive in other than a straight line."
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August
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Fling Free
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Billy-Bob always a-feared to be trapped upside down in his truck and drowning in one of the many lakes inside the city of Phoenix. Or being burnt to a pork-rind if he dun rolled his chariot on the way home from the Wagon Wheel and it caught on fire, so he jess yanked them doors off-on his ride so that he'd be flung free of the vehicle in any kind of traffic altercation.
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August
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VW Worktruck
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With all those 'flamethrowers' on his roof, I'd guess this guy does a lot of work at night, eh?
Didn't even think a VW could pull a trailer.
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August
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The Meth-Head,
The Box,
& The Bike
The other afternoon as I was leaving my apartments, I saw this odd sight. I had my camera settings wrong, so the photo is just a little too bright. But this adult meth-head (or maybe he's on the starvation-life extension diet ) appears to be carrying a huge box full of stuff on his really cool bicycle.
My daughter, who has experience with these addicts, told me that this box may be full of worthless items, personal worthless items, that this meth-head, in his messed-up thinking, will be worth massive dollars to someone. Somewhere.
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August
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Police Action
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On Cave Creek Road, south of Bell Road on Sunday, August 9th, at approximately 11:19:21 hours, I witnessed the officer in the police car behind the red truck waiting for backup.
The taillights you see to the far left in the photo is his backup officer arriving, at which point the officer got out and approached the red truck. Later, as I drove home, I saw a Phoenix Police Tahoe also racing to the scene.
Things are never boring when you live amongst the illegal aliens, meth-heads, felons on parole and security guards.
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August
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June Bug
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Just to prove that I'm not entirely scared of all members of the order coleoptera, here is a June Bug (fig beetle) on my finger. I found him on his back in the 105F degree (40.5C) heat. I brought him into my office and revived him and set him free again.
When we were kids we always knew, even without the National Weather Service's 'Excessive Heat Warnings' when summer was here because it brought out the June bugs.
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August
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Beastly Beetle
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On the wall is a palo verde borer beetle that chews the roots of palo verdes and various other desert trees. Like it's not hard enough to survive in the less-than-six-inches-of-rain-a-year-desert already.
Derobrachus geminatus grows from 3 to 4 inches (8 to 10 cm) long, and while frightful looking in repose, these beasties in flight, coming at you with their 6" plus wingspan, look like ravenous vampire bats, only without their cute little mammalian pointy-teeth bat-smile.
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August
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Cold Snap
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With day-time August temperatures in here in Phoenix, Arizona not even hitting 105F degrees, and nighttime temps dropping into the low 80's, I wasn't surprised the other afternoon when I poured filtered tap water into the funnel stuck in my custom, one-off, 'Mr.Wonderful Signature Series' re-fillable water bottle and it came out the small end frozen.
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August
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No Fear
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Most of us fear the all seeing omnipresent photo-radar guardians of Phoenix, however I seriously doubt whoever is driving this Ford Expedition worries much.
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08/04/2009
7:19:59pm
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Blowing the Light
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Trying to ignore the racket of the usual ghetto bird as accompaniment, I was outside taking some photos of books this 113F degree afternoon. Then I heard the loudspeaker begin booming as if God were talking to me, however, when I looked up I saw the police helicopter audio barrage was not directed towards me.
I went outside onto Cave Creek Road and took multiple photos that will be soon be available for viewing. In the meantime I left my barrio to go visit a Bank of America branch safely located 5 miles to the east, and witnessed this Phoenix police car, 'lights & siren', blowing the red light at Cactus Road & 24th Street. I believe he was headed towards my very own ghetto.
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July 2009
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Em Are
Electric?
Having been in the electrical industry from 1966 until 1991 I could never understand a business having the name of 'M.R.' Electric.
I remember the first electrician who showed up at my gate in an MR Electric van. I asked him why anyone would name a company 'Mental Retard Electric', he really didn't seem to appreciate the question. Then again, maybe I should have spoken slower?
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July 2009
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Welcome
to Phoenix
A welcome to Phoenix, Arizona via the Scottsdale police department.
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July 2009
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Bee Swarm
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Once you know what bee swarming looks like you can spot them in an instant. Here I got into my car after work and my headlights lit up this blob of bees. Apparently they weren't 'killer bees' since i got pretty darned close and did not get attacked. Of course I held my breath the whole time.
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July 2009
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Fake Cop
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I know police departments have to sell their old vehicles, but how many dodos out there would pull over if this ex-police car signaled to do so?
Here's another idiot (or possible serial rapist or killer) in his 'Black & White' ex-police car. He drove like he was a real policeman so I let him pass me so I could take this picture. The dolt doesn't realize that the major cities in Arizona haven't used 'Black & Whites' since Broderick Crawford starred in the TV series, 'Highway Patrol'.
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July 2009
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Hot Mom
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It is gawdamned hot here in Phoenix, Arizona. Today it was 112F (44.5C) degrees. It's so hot the birds simply give up on flying and land and sometimes die. I find many more dead avians on my summer patrols than during any other season.
Here you can see a hot quail mom with her two young chicks beneath her just giving up and sitting on the asphalt next to the fire-department-red painted curb at 9pm. I think they usually hatch around eight to twelve, so the other birds and the evil roadrunners probably ate these two brothers and sisters popping them into their mouths like we eat Milk Duds.
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July 2009
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Today's Idiot
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Actually, this is not 'today's' idiot, but last week's idiot shown today. This moron was cutting across all three lanes in order to get ahead of everyone else so he or she could have the privilege of being first in line to merge onto the always-constipated Squaw Peak freeway south.
Of course the dolt will never understand that the traffic lights are timed to encourage morons like him to drive the speed limit.
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July 2009
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Naked
Biker
Okay, fine he's not naked, but this motorcycle rider might as well be if he falls riding his scooter. And even Evan can fall.
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July 2009
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Mexican
Taxi
For those of you who don't believe Arizona is rapidly becoming a part of Mexico, here we have an unabashed Mexican taxi. Not Mexican-American, but Mexican.
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June 2009
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Three
Vehicles
A not often told story of three vehicles: An H2 Hummer, a Smart4Two and a minivan.
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June 2009
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Road Side
Warrior
Ever wonder who pulls down all those advertisements for garage sales and get-rich quick signs posted on utility poles? The Road(side) Warrior does.
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June 2009
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Hidden
Pune
No recession over at The Candy Store (where, I'm told, at least one recent graduate of Scottsdale Christian Academy seems to always end up dancing at) on the corner of Cave Creek Road & Union Hills. There was a time, when this location was far north of Phoenix, an ancient age when the city limits ended at Bell Road which is two miles (in the direction of the camera holder) south of here.
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June 2009
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Hidden
Accident
Couldn't figure out what all the hub bub was about, and then I found it.
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June 2009
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Fancy Fatty
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This lady was pretty hard to miss.
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June 2009
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Powerchair
Hitchhiker
Don't know how this came about. Maybe the truck driver picks up powerchair riders whose chairs run out of juice or something. The cripple in the back doesn't seem to be too happy to be in the shot. Oops, I meant to write, 'the differently-abled person in the back', excuse me.
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June 2009
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Ectoplasm
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I've had several people I've worked with die. When you're in the security guard business, sometimes it's pretty hard to tell whether they've died or they are just pausing extra-long before answering a question.
In any case here you can see ectoplasm between the red dots. It's probably one of my passed-away co-workers checking to see if he's won the lottery yet or if I saw where he left his pack of Marlboro's.
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June 2009
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Left Hand
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People who are not members of the high-IQ-club wonder what we blessed few think of, or notice of, so much, so often, that keeps our minds buzzing every waking minute so that we sometimes seek to slow the informational input with drugs, or alcohol, or consenting sex with large-breasted, red-headed women (preferably all three at once), so here is just one tiny thing I noticed the other day and became concerned about.
Above you can see that the end cap is off of this vehicle's wheel, which is something most people would not notice to begin with. However, why has it gone missing? Why are both end caps missing on this side of the vehicle, but not on the other side? Since ashtrays are illegal, did some tidy tobacco-addict liberate them to crush out his still smoldering stubs in? Would it help to know that this is the driver's side of this SUV?
Each time the tire-wheel came to a stop, the 'never tight enough' end caps kept trying to spin, turning in the same counter-clockwise direction they would be turned to unscrew them, and they eventually fell off. Granted it took many months to do this.
Nonsense? Well, until 1968 all Chrysler cars on the driver's side had lug nuts that you turned to the left to TIGHTEN, and to the right to loosen, just the opposite of normal. This way, it was thought, the lug nuts would be keeping themselves tight.
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June 2009
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Gas Stop
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So we peons can't drive the vehicles we want to purchase and drive President Obama wishes gasoline was $4.00 a gallon. Nevermind that while on a single dinner date to New York City with the 'Shaved Ape' he burns more fuel than the average American peon will consume over the next decade, even at $4.00 a gallon. And then we've got the whole Global Warming fraud.
But doncha know that Obama will never again get within a hundred million miles of the struggle-to-make ends-meet-and-still-enjoy-Jack-in-the-Box-once-in-a-while-life that 85% of Americans enjoy so what the hell does he care? After his presidency what fool would pay to listen to him read off of a teleprompter, so that's not an option to this incredible bore from Kenya. If he gets in a pinch he can just have Bomber Bill Ayers simply write his third autobiography, or is it fourth?
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May 2009
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Gas Stop
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Police incident Greenway Parkway and 33rd Place, Phoenix, Arizona.
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May 2009
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8 is Enough
It's not bad enough that Illegal Aliens take our jobs, (albeit at one-half the cost to the employer, and one-third more hours put in, weekends & holidays worked without complaint, as they are treated like pre-Civil War indentured servants) crowd our free government schools, and pack our no-charge hospital emergency rooms (especially Phoenix Children's Hospital) but now, due to Section 8 regulations, they can even live rent free with, guess who?, you and me again picking up the bill.
Who exactly is supporting the cause of these Illegals who are choking our schools, hospitals, housing and jails? While "they" may have more money than us, do they have more votes? Do they have more purchasing power? Do these traitors and rapacious businessmen have a louder voice than the taxpaying citizens burdened with the bills from the barrios?
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May 2009
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Back from the Dead?
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As many of you know, Mr.Wonderful has tried to drop out of government service and often continues to find himself tailed by an agent of the government. Here it looks like they brought Elliot Ness back to harass me. Isn't MAAD enough?
Another person who could never escape his government, Number 6
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May 2009
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Buford's Truck
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Buford simply could not understand why all of a sudden his truck started getting even worse mileage than usual and was even being passed by Prius's on the freeway.
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May 2009
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Broke Duck
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As some of you know, print newspapers are cutting back on cartoons. One of the characters too often cut is Mallard Fillmore.
Here he is seen with his bodyguard and one of his byatches, outside of the Greenway Parkway Safeway Store, drumming up some extra dough.
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May 2009
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