Aloha Daze

I’ve been trying to get onto Dr. Pepper’s website all day to get a coupon for a free 20 oz. Dr. Pepper. This is Dr. Pepper’s marketing trick to get you try their drink. This stems from a March 2008 statement from Dr. Pepper that they would give everyone in America a free Dr. Pepper if Guns n’ Roses would release their album “Chinese Democracy” before the end of 2008.

The album has been in a sort of limbo for years, it seems. Actually, about 17 years.

Yet today, November 23, 2008, the album is coming out, and Dr. Pepper is honoring their pledge. Mostly.

The Dr. Pepper site has been down. And up. Then down. The link was at one web address… then it was down… then it was at a different address. Dr. Pepper had a nice animation on their main page. Then they didn’t.

In short, DrPepper.com is having a fit with this promotion. Not really a surprise. Everyone can have a free drink, but you have to request it within a 24 hour window. And there’s about four hours left now. (I’d be more specific, but I can’t get to their website to make note of how much time is left.)

Somewhere behind the scenes at DrPepper.com there is a very unhappy IT team… and a webmaster working on updating their resume.

RLR

The war in Iraq is over. We won!

Because we said so.

RLR

Be polictically incorrect? Me?

You bet.

Victory in Iraq Day – Saturday, November 22, 2008.

RLR

It is my sad duty to report that Michael Crichton has died at the young age of 66.

I’ve been a very, very big fan of Crichton for years after my dad introduced me to the author in the years before “Jurassic Park” was a movie. After reading “Park,” I went on to find and read every novel that Crichton had ever written. I regret that I haven’t made the time to read the last couple of his novels – “State of Fear” and “Next.” Certainly that is something I need to correct.

For more on the life of the man with many talents, visit the Michael Crichton website [which seems to be currently down] at MichaelCrichton.net, or the WikiPedia entry.

Thanks for the great stories, Michael. You’ll be missed.

RLR

So America has decided to delve deep into the abyss of socialism and marxism by choosing the vague, misty, empty values of Hope and Change.

I watched as much TV as I could stomach… words upon words from the Obamessiah’s victory speech about Hope and Change, and Hoping for Change… and Change!

However, I noted that I didn’t see or hear anything from Joe Biden. Where is ol’ Joe? He should provide some good sound bites during the next four years for conservative talk radio. Provided that the “fairness doctrine” doesn’t silence talk radio, as Democrats are hoping it will.

So before my freedoms are all but taken away, and Obama’s KGB is knocking on my door to take my money and my faith, and force me to join the civilian militia… I give you, the Democratic Messiah:

RLR

Ok, here we are. Twenty-four hours to go before we get an idea of what the next four years will look like. (Here’s a sneak-peek from Obama’s first four years.)

Here’s what I’m thinkin’…

If Obama Wins…

Do you think we’ll see rioting in the streets? It wouldn’t be the first time that success yeilded riots.

If Obama Loses…

The far left will decry the election stolen… riots in the streets? Yeah, I’d believe it. If you believe people will riot if he wins, just imagine what happens if he loses.

RLR