The Booty Lounge

The Booty Lounge is a fantastic stripper bus operation that operates out of Detroit....at least until last weekend.

The cops have been kind of upset because there is no law to really cover the bus operation.  They finally found the bus parked last Sunday....checked for an inspection sticker....which it didn't have the latest and greatest....plus the driver just wasn't licensed properly. So it's been taken down temporarily.

The thing about this....is that you ought to franchise the whole thing and buy up 300 Brazilian buses to import into the US.  You could drive them around NCAA games on Saturday, and NFL games on Sunday....clearing $20 million every single weekend easily.

Who would have thought.....a stripper club on wheels?  The greatest idea since corndogs were developed.

Just Observations

There are three curious stories from the news today.  First, there's this Iranian deal where they were going to kill the Saudi ambassador in DC.  It's a fascinating TV script.  Here's this Iranian guy who'd lived in Corpus Christi, Texas for two decades...."Joe" was his name....and he sold used cars.  He wasn't wealthy, but he did ok.  At some point in the last year....he finally returned to Iran....which is kinda odd.  The Revolutionary Guards of Iran approached "Joe", which leads one to speculate if he was a internal spy for the whole two decades.  They wanted a hit on the Saudi ambassador in DC.  They had this name of a drug cartel guy in Mexico City, and they gave it to "Joe"....with a sum of money.  "Joe" was supposed to offer around $1.2 million (more or less)....so my guess is that "Joe" kept around $800k for himself (my humble guess).  The comical part about this story....is that the drug cartel guy in Mexico.....was a US agent.  So he figures out the whole deal, and "Joe gets pushed out of Mexico City in a hurry....and flies up to NY City, where he gets arrested.  They ask "Joe" to tell his whole story, which he does.  So the Iranian bigwigs are standing there, and you get the impression that they know next to nothing about this.  The Revolutionary Guards are keeping their mouth shut.  The Saudis are extremely upset about this.  And Corpus Christi is sadden over the loss of a pretty damn good used car dealer.

I surveyed this and pondered....who would play who in the movie?  I'm thinking Johnny Depp as the secret intelligence drug cartel bogus guy.  I'm thinking Will Smith as the Saudi ambassador.  Toss in some love interest for "Joe", and some whacked out Hollywood guy to play the Revolutionary Guards folks....and you've got a five-star movie.

Second story.....from the kind WikiLeaks folks....we learn that the President really wanted to show up in Japan and apologize for nuking them at the end of WWII.  Around November of 2009.....the President sent word to the Japanese that he was all prepared and would really make a five-star moment.  The Japanese stood there in absolute horror.  They don't want any idiot....especially an American idiot to bring this up.  Because then the anti-nuke folks will take the bait and then demand the US take all the nukes and just go home.  This comment in the news probably doesn't help the President much....offering an apology but never delivering one because the other guy just doesn't want it.

Finally, some folks were planning a Kiwanis meeting in Bama.....at a Olive Garden restaurant.  Everything was all fixed up, until the lady doing the arrangements showed up with her US flag which was to be part of the display for their meeting.  The Olive Garden folks freaked out....and said no US flag allowed.  This was done down at Oxford....where they just don't have private seating.  So the lady involved continued on....but as they started up the Kiwanis meeting....she had to ask folks to imagine a flag flying, while they recited their pledge to the flag.

Naturally, this upset some folks....accusing Olive Garden of being anti-American.  My guess is that a number of international folks frequent the restaurant......from various countries.....and they just plain hate the flag, period.  At any moment, at Olive Gardens throughout America....there might 300k anti-Americans sitting there and eating away at the $7.99 special of the day.  So as you go over and order tomorrow....and wink at folks around at your local Olive Garden......just remember, they might be Chinese, French, or Russians....and they'd shoot your dog if they had a chance.

9-9-9 Equals 6-6-6?

Last night, for the Republican forum....Representative Bachmann finally got around to dumping on Herman Cain's new tax proposal (always referred to as the 9-9-9 plan).  At some point, she hinted that the 'devil was in the details', and that this might be the 6-6-6 plan.  Naturally, Bama Baptists suddenly woke up and grasped that Herman Cain was likely working in association with the devil.  Herman was likely sitting there.....being a Baptist, and shaking his head.....only a total idiot like Bachmann would think like this.

At present around America, from 300 million, there are likely twenty-five million folks that have a grasp of 6-6-6.  It typically represents the work of the devil....however, if you ask how this came to be....the vast majority will just look at you and be unable to explain how this number business connects up to the devil.

So a moment of education.....there's this book in the Bible (remarkably from the New Testament) which has the Book of Revelation.  There's this part of the Book....13:17-18....which lays out 6-6-6 to be the "number of a man" who will eventually comes up to the Antichrist.  The difficult part about this Book and comment?  Well.....it was laid out in this apocalyptic dream.  It's the kind of thing you'd imagine if you did LSD (my own humble opinion).

So there's a problem here with 6-6-6 and the Book of Revelation.  I sat and pondered over the Bible.  It was not written by one individual or one culture.  It became this effort to consolidate a number of texts that a editorial group came to decide as legitimate.  There are literally hundreds and perhaps thousands of texts which were examined, with some tossed to the side as simply not fitting the vision of editorial group.

You can imagine this functioning like high school yearbook, and the committee in charge decides what pictures and comments are acceptable.  Various things are simply left out because it'd freak out parents if they knew the true picture of the local school.  The Bible committee functioned in the same fashion.  They generally wanted to make sure everything was positive and told in a positive light.  But then you come to the Book of Revelation, which is a fairly thrilling piece of text....that concerns mostly a dream or vision.  It's the only book out of the Bible which doesn't represent wisdom, advice, or fact.

Most Bible scholars tend to avoid discussions over the Book of Revelation because it just gets people all wrapped up over a dream that some guy had around two thousand years ago.  The guy is writing comments that you'd expect out Stephen King....if he had some good drugs....and was sipping a fair amount of Jacky D's.

The actual writer?  It's attributed to John from Patmos.  Most Bible experts always mean this to be one of ten thousand likely Johns walking around the region at the time....and not John the Baptist.  Patmos?  Well, it's a Greek-associated island that lays around fifty miles off the coast of Turkey.  You'd land and kinda walk around this place....finding it kinda isolated.  It's the kind of place where you'd mostly tend to sheep, do a bit of fishing, and maybe tend to some small gardens.

There wouldn't be much excitement to the place, and guys might get kind of bored and start telling far-fetched stories to one another as amusement or entertainment.  So you end with this guy John....who might have been sipping a bit of wine, and telling this vast anti-Christ type dream he had....to really flip out the other guys at the camp fire.  After telling a hundred times...I'm guessing John was pretty good at this, and finally wrote his official text.  A month or a year later....that text ended up with some Bible committee....who thought this was the real John (the Baptist guy), and naturally rushed up to include it toward the end of the Bible.

You end up with a campfire story at the end of the Bible....to keep folks scared and thinking beyond their own times.  It's the only book in the Bible like this, and probably for good reason.

So we come back to Bachmann's comment....with the devil in the details.....seeing her as huddled around a campfire and scaring up the other guys fairly good.  Forget the LSD or a sip or two of booze....just say 6-6-6, and you got folks all worried about Herman Cain.

My advice?  To make the Bible crowd happy, let's just make this the 10-10-10 plan.  Keep the extra tax revenue, and spend it on unnecessary bridges in Alaska or free peanut butter for American Indians.  This way, there won't be any devils in the details and Herman still gets a chance....rather than that cult guy....Mitt (Bachmann's favorite in the crowd).

Only in America.