Mufflers

Don't you just love it when you are driving down the road, and all of the sudden you hear this sound. It's like a mosquito whining in your ear, but louder. You look and it's some idiot in a Honda, Nissan, etc. with one of the mufflers that makes the car sound like a bag full of crack-laden bees.

We've all been there. Some of you may be a proud owner of such a device. My advice to those with the device is to unbolt it from the car (while still hot), grasp it firmly as it sears the skin, and throw it off a cliff. If you are wondering if the muffler on your car is one such device of mass annoyance, here are some things to look out for.

1.  Do you have a car that can be referred to as a rice-burner, glorified lawnmower, or an import tuner?
2.  Do you have a muffler that without modification from factory specs, can be heard inside the car?*
3.  Does you car have a Monster or Red line sticker on it?
4.  Do you wear a cap with the unbent bill set in the 1o'clock to 3 o'clock position?

If you answered yes to one or more of these questions, you might want to take a hard look at the way you are. You are annoying everyone around you, and for our sanity and your safety, lease stop.

*  If you have a car that can be referred to as a sports car (having at least 6 cylinders and at least 300 hp), cannot be called a chick car, and is made in the USA, you may have a muffler that properly resonates the beautiful sound of the engine inside. Cherrybomb brand is preferable for a full-bodied, rumbling purr. If your car is not made in the USA, sorry. We American's made muscle cars what they are today, and if you don't buy American muscle, you have no muscle.

Mandated Healthcare

Raise your hand if you think that you know better than your neighbor/ fellow man how they should live their life. If your hand is elevated, ball it up and hit yourself with it. No Man, I say again, No Man has the power to tell another how to live their life. But the majority of Congress, the President, and the majority of the Supreme Court think that they have the right to tell us how to live our lives. In the Declaration of Independence our Unalienable rights to "Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness." Notice how we have the God-given, cannot-be taken-away, right to life. This means that another man has no power to end you life without cause. Guess what, it goes further. It also means that we have the right to live our life the way we see fit. No man nor governmental body can squander that right. If I want to shorten my life by eating fatty foods and driving without a seat belt, I CAN! The right to my life belongs to me, and I can live it and end it as I see fit.

Now some government officials are telling me I have to have health insurance to keep me healthy. Its one thing to actually want to keep me healthy, but that is not really why they want me and others in my age group to have health insurance. They want to force me to have health insurance, so that I can pay into it with little chance of needing to draw out money. Since my age group can pay so much into the pool without many drawing out of it, it will help keep the cost of government-subsidized healthcare plans low.

So not only are they taking money from me to prop up the longest-running ponzi scheme social security, they may also take money from me by forcing me to have healthcare. In essence, I'm not taking care of my elderly family members (which is how things worked back in the good old days), but I'm paying to take care of every old Dick and Jane. Thank you US Government.

Needless to say, the government's actions in this set of laws has greatly encroached upon my individual right to life.

That makes me angry!