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  • A Nightmare Regarding A Movie Theater

    May 31st, 2016

    I have had a nightmare where the children of both of my mother’s brothers, both of Moe & Carletta’s daughters, both of Darlene’s sons; and also, all 3 of Colin & Sheila’s sons are all dropped off by Chris, Darlene, Carletta; and my mother’s eldest brother’s wife to go see a movie at the Star movie theater located on John R Road in Madison Heights, Michigan. A bunch of friends of the children of my mothers’ brothers and my mother’s eldest brother’s niece & nephew also joined them in seeing this movie as well. Chris, Darlene, Carletta; and my mother’s eldest brother’s wife them go shopping at the Mervyn’s department store location in the strip mall located just several hundred yards away from the movie theater.

    And instead of being the future of NASCAR past the era of drivers such as Ricky Rudd, Bill Elliott, and Rusty Wallace; and instead of being purveyors of change in NASCAR and in the modernization of NASCAR, Kasey Kahne, Denny Hamlin, Kevin Harvick, Elliott Sadler, Carl Edwards, Matt Kenseth, Jimmie Johnson; and Casey Mears each went to this movie theater with a bunch of their friends; and an employee of the movie theater had said to them that their muscles are ugly, that they should be fat and overweight instead of being fit and muscular; and that never a day in their life should they ever have been involved in sports.

    NFL player Tom Brady also happened to show up at this movie theater, going to see a movie with a bunch of friends; and the employee of the movie theater told him that all sports are icky and yucky, that he too should have never been involved in sports a day in his life, that his muscles are ugly; and that he too should be fat and overweight instead of being fit and muscular. This also means that he should have never been involved in icky, yucky Basketball and icky, yucky Baseball.

    And NHL players Shane Doan, Tyson Nash, Derek Morris; and Darren McCarty also happened to show up at this movie theater with a bunch of friends, Shane Doan happened to be wearing an ugly, hideous suit, it would be preferred if none of these athletes ever dressed up; the employee of the movie theater told them that all sports are icky and yucky, that they too should have never been involved in sports a day in their life, that their muscles are ugly; and that they too should be fat and overweight instead of being fit and muscular. Then the employee of the movie theater tells both Derek Morris and Darren McCarty that they should both be rushed to the hospital to have their tattoos removed, and that the employee of the movie theater doesn’t have any tolerance for tattoos whatsoever.

    This same employee of the movie theater also tells Colin & Sheila’s 3 sons that their muscles are ugly, they should be fat and overweight; and that they shouldn’t be involved with sports either.

    Going to see a movie with a bunch of friends is just one of many horrible social events and gatherings.

    At the same time, Mary Ann, Shannon, Mag, Ann and myself happen to be driving to the Target store location nearby in the strip mall on John R Road in a diesel Suburban or in a diesel Centurion Bronco that I own, listening to J.P McCarthy’s radio show, middle-of the road format, CBS Radio programming on WJR-AM on the stock Delco or Ford/Philco radio units while driving in the diesel Suburban or the diesel Centurion Bronco. We never run into Chris, and mercifully; Darlene, Carletta, and my mother’s eldest brother’s wife; who are shopping at the same strip mall but at a different store located on the opposite end of the mall.

    And while we’re shopping at this Target store location, I happen to run into a former teacher of mine whose name is Linda Culliton. Linda tells me that during a time she had taken a student of colleague Bob Sierzega’s class to provide the student with weekly speech therapy service; that Bob had briefly talked to her about what’s been going on with his wife Joan, a Physical Education teacher in the school district; before Linda had escorted the student down to the room within the school to provide hi with his weekly speech therapy services. and Linda tells me what’s been going on lately with Sue Waters and her husband Robert; and also with George Seguin, his wife Sharon, and his mother.

    While we’re at the store, Mary Ann and her daughter Mary Agnes “Mag” both decide that we should go and retrieve each of Colin & Sheila’s 3 sons from the movie theater, take them back to Chris & Jim’s house; and lecture the boys that it’s against his father Colin’s and his mother Sheila’s will to let them go to a movie theater and see a movie with a bunch of friends.

    As I’m driving to the movie theater from the store, a distance of only several hundred yards away; Mary Ann tells me that rarely, if ever; did she and Whit ever allow their children to go and hang out with their friends like this. Mag says “that’s right mom, you rarely ever did allow us kids to go and hang out with our friends like this”. Ann says that she and Paul would let their 2 daughters hang out with their friends from High School, but never would they let them go see a movie together. I add that going to see a movie with a bunch of friends is just one of many horrible social events and gatherings.

    We go inside the theater, and Mary Ann and Mag both ask an usher which particular theater is (this movie) playing, the usher says theater #6; and then Mary Ann and Mag both ask the usher to go and retrieve Whit Gilligan II, Festus Gilligan; and Angus Gilligan. Soon enough, Colin & Sheila’s 3 sons emerge from the theater and Mary Ann tells the boys that it’s against their parents’ will to go and see a movie with a bunch of friends. And Mag tells the boys to wait until their parents find out that they did this. Mary Ann disciplines Colin & Sheila’s 3 boys the same way that she had disciplined all 5 of her own children while she and Whit had raised them.

    I’ve also had a similar nightmare where the children of both of my mother’s brothers, both of Moe & Carletta’s daughters, both of Darlene’s sons, all 3 of Colin & Sheila’s sons; and a bunch of  friends of the children of my mothers’ brothers and my mother’s eldest brother’s niece & nephew each went to see a movie together at the United Artists movie theater chain location inside Oakland Mall, located not too far away from the other movie theater and the strip mall where the Target store are both located. And Chris, Darlene, Carletta; and my mother’s eldest brother’s wife each went shopping together at the remainder of the mall while all of the pupils went to see the movie at the theater inside the mall.

    And Mary Ann and I felt contempt to go to this shopping mall, over to the movie theater inside of it; retrieve Colin & Sheila’s 3 sons, and take them back to Chris & Jim’s house. Because again, them going to see a movie with a bunch of friends is against their parents’ will and because neither Mary Ann nor myself like them doing that either.

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  • BBC Television Program Top Gear

    May 31st, 2016

    I wish that the BBC television program Top Gear would forevermore remain in it’s original format since it’s inception in 1977. There was absolutely nothing wrong with Top Gear’s original format.

    I absolutely do not like Top Gear’s newer format that it’s had since 2002.

    An episode about the Series/Defender with the Buick/Rover V8, and the GC Subaru Impreza:

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  • GM B-Platform Station Wagon Located Near Furguson Park In Detroit, Michigan

    May 29th, 2016

    A 1977-1990 GM B-platform wagon driving near the Ferguson Park tractor plant in Detroit city proper in Michigan.

    Massey-Ferguson had ceased production at this plant in 1984.

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  • Public Surplus: Auction #1617353

    May 29th, 2016

    A Rear Engine TC/2000 with the Cummins B-platform engine and the Allison 2000 transmission.

    W – 1998 Bluebird schoolbus # 63 – Ohio Schools Council Surplus

    Source: Public Surplus: Auction #1617353

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  • Episode Of Phil McGraw’s Talk Show About A Girl With Bipolar Disorder And Her Family

    May 28th, 2016

    An episode of Phil McGraw’s talk show about a girl with Bipolar disorder and her family.

    Sadly, the parents have never really showed their daughter any respect all her life, the parents have threatened to divorce each other with the father also threatening to take their other two children with them, the father wanting to institutionalize their daughter while the mother wants their daughter to stay put at home; and the two other children of this couple who are alienated by their Bipolar sibling.

    What I personally have to say about all of this is how could a parent be so ignorant of their special needs child, their child who has a disability?

    It won’t be anything that I’ll have to worry about since I don’t ever plan on getting married and having any children myself.

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  • Noah Wyle – Santa Barbara Surfer Profiles PostModern Surfer.com

    May 28th, 2016

    Though actor Noah Wyle is a person who isn’t my cup of tea, if there was to ever be a casting for an actor in a television show or movie to play NASCAR driver Elliott Sadler, Noah Wyle would be perfect.

    Not only is Noah Wyle as morbidly athletic as Elliott Sadler, but Noah Wyle also bears a passing resemblance to Elliott Sadler; and Noah Wyle also has as much of a penchant for facial hair as Elliott Sadler does.

    This does not include the fact that Elliott Sadler himself will be making an appearance in the Arthur movie for adults, playing his own self.

    Postmodern Surfer:surfer profiles. surf towns news, stories, travel, video for the Postmodern Surfer

    Source: Noah Wyle – Santa Barbara Surfer Profiles PostModern Surfer.com

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  • Home That We Could Purchase In Early Life And Continuous Livelihood

    May 28th, 2016

    This is another home that we and my paternal grandmother could jointly purchase and move into together, but it would be way too new to purchase second-handedly.

    It was built in 1991, and it was likely built for a similar reason as to why we would build our own house in this area-to have a sizable house with 4-5 bedrooms on a large plot of land, with a sizable outbuilding on the property.

    http://www.allnorthvillehomes.com/MI/Oakland_Township/29685387

    I’ve settled once and for all on us purchasing an empty 13 acre lot in this area, building this house plan, along with a 5,500 square foot outbuilding:

    http://www.nhdhomeplans.com/home-plans/plan_detail.php?planid=200

    Click to access 393_1.pdf

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  • Blue Bird Vision In Rock Spring, Georgia

    May 27th, 2016

    Blue Bird Vision located in Rock Spring, Georgia.

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  • WXYZ-TV’s Coverage Of The Warren Consolidated Schools School Bus Crash

    May 27th, 2016

    A video of WXYZ-TV’s (which should still be owned and operated by ABC, along with WXYZ-AM/WXYT-AM and WRIF-FM to this very day instead of being sold to Scripps Howard in 1985) coverage of the Warren Consolidated Schools School Bus crash that is the subject of this earlier post:

    School bus, SUV involved in crash

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  • School bus, SUV involved in crash

    May 27th, 2016

    A School Bus crash had occurred where John Roeck had retired from, and where my mother works as a bus driver in “Early Life And Continuous Livelihood”.

    The bus that was involved in this accident is a 2012 90 passenger Front Engine Blue Bird All American with the Cummins B-platform engine and the Allison/World 3000 transmission that was produced well after Blue Bird’s quality, fit, and finish had gone downhill.

    The numbers marked on the School Bus “12-7” are Warren Consolidated Schools’ way of indicating that the bus is a 2012 model, and is the 7th bus that the school district had acquired that year.

    The designation also indicates where on the lot at the transportation department the bus has to be parked when it’s not being driven. For instance, it has to be parked in between 12-6 and 12-8. And because at the moment this post is being written, it is beginning to be a middle-aged bus; it is parked in the middle of the lot, and it is put on a route with a mix of Elementary and Middle Schools; and a driver with at least 7-8 years of seniority is allowed to take a route with a bus this old.

    Whereas the oldest buses in the fleet that are used as spares are parked on the side of the building, and the second to oldest buses that are used only on the shortest routes-routes that only include Elementary Schools and drivers that are newly hired up to drivers who have about 7 years of seniority; are parked in the rear of the lot. And drivers on these shortest routes that include the second to oldest buses have to walk from the transportation building all the way to the rear of the lot to get to their assigned bus.

    STERLING HEIGHTS — A Grissom Middle School student was taken to a local hospital for observation after a Warren Consolidated Schools bus was involved in a traffic incident at about 11:30 a.m. Friday, May 27.

    Source: School bus, SUV involved in crash

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  • Public Surplus: Auction #1615220

    May 27th, 2016

    And another Front Engine Blue Bird All American like what John Roeck buys during the early-mid 1990’s in “Early Life And Continuous Livelihood”.

    1992 Blue Bird All American Bus – Salt Lake City School District Surplus

    Source: Public Surplus: Auction #1615220

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  • Public Surplus: Auction #1615713

    May 27th, 2016

    A Front Engine Blue Bird All American just like what John Roeck buys during the early-mid 1990’s in “Early Life And Continuous Livelihood”.

    This bus also has the same engine and transmission that John Roeck would order-the Cummins C-platform diesel engine and the Allison MT-643 transmission.

    1993 Blue Bird All American School Bus – Salt Lake City School District Surplus

    Source: Public Surplus: Auction #1615713

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  • Public Surplus: Auction #1615652

    May 27th, 2016

    Even though I am not fond of the Freightliner chassis & cowl, I wish that Ford continued to produce the B-Series chassis and cowl to this day; and I wish that Thomas remained an independently-owned entity rather than being purchased by Daimler/Freightliner in 1998; here is an FS-65 chassis & cowl with a manual transmission.

    The Thomas conventional body also has the blue interior with blue seats.

    Bus #1 – Tucker County Schools Surplus

    Source: Public Surplus: Auction #1615652

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