Dusting Off My Old Prancing Horse T-Shirt I Bought When Michael Schumacher Was Driving

At the end of the month,

the month of April,

the

Russian Formula 1 Grand Prix

will be held.

The fourth race of the season.

Even though

Nico Rosberg

has won the first three,

it has been a season of exciting ups

and downs for all the teams involved.

Some

Sporting News Outlets

(br)

predicted before the season opening race that the fight would be between

Lewis Hamilton

and

Sebastian Vettel

for the Championship. 

Yet,

in my mind,

it was always going to be about

Hamilton

and

Rosberg.

Nico

is doing what he is supposed to do,

but

Lewis

seems to be lost this season.

Not having his usual edge that he displayed the last two years.

I have a small theory on that,

and I am sure if my suspicions were correct,

the

Mercedes' Brain Trust

would have seen it too.

At the beginning of the season,

so people around the World would not think that

Mercedes

was playing favorites with their drivers,

five mechanics who worked with

Lewis Hamilton

last year

and five mechanics who worked for

Nico Rosberg,

traded positions.

For the last few years,
before 2016,

Nico,

had more mechanical problems with his car than

Lewis 
did.

This year,

Lewis

is having more problems with his car than

Nico.

Rosberg

even said after the

Chinese Race

that his

Mercedes AMG

was set up the best it has ever been.

Maybe there is one mechanic out of the bunch who has the perfect touch when setting up a race car?

It is just a thought.

Since the first seven races are held two weeks apart from each other,

I have been looking for a way to fill the void of my love for

F1

during the breaks.

I have found three documentaries that I think will fill the time nicely.

Weekend of a Champion.

A movie directed by a young

Roman Polanski

about

Jackie Stewart's

attempt to win the

1971 Monaco Grand Prix.

I haven't finished it yet,

but halfway through,

I love it.

Hunt vs Lauda.

Story about the 1976 rivalry between these two Formula 1 drivers.

I watched it a couple of years back,

but will be watching it again.

It is a good story.

In 2013,

Ron Howard

made the movie 

Rush

about the same story.

I love that movie.

The last documentary is
Gonchi.

I haven't seen it yet so I cannot tell you any thing about it except what it says on

Gonchi, The Movie - Official Trailer

on

You Tube.

"GONCHI tells the story of a Uruguayan car racer that dreamt about being in F1 and did all that was possible to reach his goal. When he was about to reach his best prize, he died in a car accident at the CART World Series tests in Laguna Seca, US." 

And if those documentaries don't do it for me,

I have the

2015 F1

racing game for my

Xbox One!

Dammit!

Pastor Maldonado

just hit me from behind.

Wow,

it is almost like driving a real
F1 Car
back in 2015!

This is,

Dusting Off My Old Prancing Horse T-Shirt I Bought When

Michael Schumacher Was Driving,

Jim Hauenstein,

And,

“If you wait, all that happens is that you get older” 

- Mario Andretti -

That is my story and I am sticking to it!

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A Part Of My Life Today And Some Headlines I Was Going To Write Stories On

I just got back from a new tradition which is starting in our household.

Going for a Sunday hike on one of the many trails in

Southern California.

This trail is off of

Sandia Creek Drive

near the

City of Fallbrook.

The trail hikes along the

Santa Margarita River.

It is a blast to do since it is with my family.

Here are some headlines I was going to write stories on,

but after I saved the links for awhile,

I lost the enthusiasm for them.

So now I need to delete them,

but maybe you will be interested in reading about them.

 

"Overdue Library Book Returned 49 Years Later" by Tana Weingartner for 91.7 WVXU Cincinati
"James Philips says he must've forgotten to return History of the Crusades to the University of  Dayton library when he joined the Marines. Now, 49 years later, the book is finally returned and heading back into circulation. The university contacted Philips who told them he checked out the book in 1967 but left school for the Marine Corps without returning it. He says he picked it up either for a class or just because it looked interesting. According to a statement, the late fee in 1967 was two cents per day. However, UD says it won't be sending Phillips a bill, which WVXU estimates at around $350."

"Richard Nixon Adviser Reveals The War On Drugs Was Really War On Blacks And Vietnam Protesters"  by Zachary Volkert for INQUISITR
"Former president Richard Nixon and the War on Drugs are possibly two of the least loved facets of 20th century American history, and according to a former adviser, a link between the two might make them even more unpopular. For years, many have suspected that the Nixon administration’s “dirty tricks” against its rivals exposed in Watergate were also present in the War on Drugs. There was, however, scant evidence of these claims being true. Now, a 1994 interview is being shared with the public for the first time in a Harper magazine piece called “Legalize It All.” John Ehrlichman — “You want to know what this was really all about? The Nixon campaign in 1968, and the Nixon White House after that, had two enemies: the anti-war left and black people. You understand what I’m saying? We knew we couldn’t make it illegal to be either against the war or black, but by getting the public to associate the hippies with marijuana and blacks with heroin, and then criminalizing both heavily, we could disrupt those communities. We could arrest their leaders, raid their homes, break up their meetings, and vilify them night after night on the evening news. Did we know we were lying about the drugs? Of course we did.”

"Daniel Shaver, unarmed man killed by Arizona police officer, cried and begged for life before shooting" by Jason Silverstein for Daily News
"An unarmed man who was shot and killed by an Arizona police officer in January cried, complied with police orders and begged for his life before the fatal firing, according to a newly released police report. Mesa Police Officer Philip Brailsford has been charged with second-degree murder for the death of Daniel Shaver, a 26-year-old Texas man. Authorities have declined to release Brailsford’s body cam footage from the deadly encounter."

Look at this asshole.

"Massive Document Leak Shows How The World's Wealthy Hide Money" by Justin Streight for INQUISITR

"How do the ultra-wealthy hide their money? A massive document leak reveals a lot of the process, even exposing Vladimir Putin’s friends use of shell companies. But Putin is just one of the many, many public figures that have been caught using the shadowy “offshore world.” The massive data leak, known as the Panama Papers, contains about 2.6 terabytes of data, roughly 11 million documents from the Panamanian law firm Mossack Fonseca & Co. showing how some of the world’s wealthiest people dodge taxes and launder money. Over 370 journalists sifted through the papers and some of the first results have been published through the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists. According to the Seattle Times, the developing list of implicated people ranges from Kings to drug-dealers. Namely, the list includes the Kings of Morocco and Saudi Arabia, the Prime Ministers of Iceland and Pakistan, close associates to Bashar Al Assad and Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto. Even the families of British Prime Minister David Cameron and Chinese President Xi Jinping have been implicated. The papers show information on webs of shell companies, offshore bank accounts and phony transactions that can be used to launder money or simply hide it from taxation. For example, Ian Cameron, the British PM’s father, “helped create and develop Blairmore Holdings Inc. in Panama in 1982” according to the documents, which became a $20 million entity by 1998. Cameron was then able to advertise Blairmore as a company “not liable to taxation” to potential investors. Fusion put together a few profiles on the more famous names in the documents, but the media is focusing largely on one man — Vladimir Putin. The Russian president doesn’t have shell companies of his own, but his close friends had plenty. The Guardian created a map to simplify the complicated relationship between Putin and the roughly $2 billion dollars that was funneled in and out of Russia. Sergey Roldugin, known as a world-class cellist and close friend of Putin since the 1970s, owns three shell companies — two of them funded through what the U.S. calls “Russia’s personal bank for senior officials.” He’s a major player in a number of real businesses too, owning 12.5 percent of Russia’s biggest TV advertising agency, Video International, and 15 percent of a major truck company called Raytar. Arkady and Boris Rotenberg, billionaire brothers and also close friends with Putin, own seven British Island shell companies. They’re sanctioned by the U.S. and have been accused of corruption and of profiting from contracts in the Sochi Olympics. Although the journalists uncovered connections to people accused of various crimes, the massive data leak might lead to a surprisingly low amount of criminal charges. There’s nothing inherently illegal about maneuvers in the “offshore world.”

The

IRS

estimates that 150 billion dollars is lost in tax revenue each year due to the rich hiding their money in offshore accounts.

If the filthy rich paid their fair share,

this country would not be in debt!

And the Republicans say the Rich need Tax Breaks to stimulate the Country.

What a bunch of bullshit!

This is,

Was Not Expecting This Post To Go Political,

Jim Hauenstein,

And,

“I love money. I love everything about it. I bought some pretty good stuff. Got me a $300 pair of socks. Got a fur sink. An electric dog polisher. A gasoline powered turtleneck sweater. And, of course, I bought some dumb stuff, too.” 

- Steve Martin -

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Eggberta - Lay Those Golden Eggs

Man,

am I bushed,

tired,

and exhausted.

I spent the whole day building a

Chicken Coop.

For our newest pet,

Eggberta.

So I hope you don't mind if I take the day off.

If you believe I made the

Chicken Coop

you see above,

I have some

Golden Eggs

to sell you!

It looks something like that,

but no way as square.

How about if I show you my backyard with my new tractor.

Tomorrow I am going to plow the fields

and see if I can grow some corn.

This is,

Hoping It Rains Soon - My Backyard Looks Dry,

Jim Hauenstein,

And,

“Shoving feathers up your butt does not make you a chicken.” 

- Brad Pitt -

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How Do Some People Get The Right To Drive?

OK,

I have a complaint,

a grievance,

a beef against society.

I am going to bitch about something we all have come across if we are

Licensed Drivers.

All the morons who,

by the grace of insane

Driving Instructors,

somehow got themselves a

License to Drive!

The individual in the picture above may not be a crazy driver,

I am just using his

DMV 

picture to illustrate the kind of card it takes to become a moron.

But with further contemplation,

he does look a little embarrassed,

"Like how did I get this license?"

He has those beady little eyes

and that flaming red hair.

Yah,

he is a nut behind the wheel.

What I want to complain about is all the Psychos who think it is OK to drive through a
Red Light
by being at the tail end of a line of cars!

I have to sit behind a

Green Light

of my own so I don't hit the crazy guy who cannot wait another three minutes before his turn is up again!

When are drivers going to pay attention!

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAh!

I just hit the back of a

Subaru

since I forgot to look up from my tablet as I was typing this,

after punching the gas peddle.

This is,

Looking For My Insurance Card,

Jim Hauenstein,

And,

"I would never belong to a cult er I mean group that would have someone like me for a member."

- Jeff Povlich April 20, 2016 at 8:28 AM -

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He is the Demon Spawn behind,

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"Can't Say No To The Jeff!"

"Tales of Ratiocination."

The first modern

Detective Story

was published,

on this date,

in

Graham's Magazine

in the year of 1841.

It was written by one of my first literary heroes,

Edgar Allan Poe.

The story he published was,

"The Murders in the Rue Morgue."

Poe referred to it as one of his

"Tales of Ratiocination."

The word

Ratiocination

is sounded out a lot different then you would think by its spelling.

(rash-ee-os-uh-ney-shuhn)

Its meaning?

The process of logical reasoning.

Dare I say,

his

Ratiocination Stories

where a precursor to the

Sherlock Holmes 

sagas.

There are two stories that predate Poe's story,

 Das Fräulein von Scuderi 

by

E. T. A. Hoffmann

and

Zadig

by

Voltaire.

Yet Poe is credited with bringing the genre to the mainstream reader.

I wonder if someone is still leaving the bottle of

Cognac

at his grave stone every year?

A toast,

to the man who wrote stories that scared me so much as a young boy,

that I held a flashlight next to my bed for three years!

Man,
that is some good stuff!

This is,

Going To Take Another Sip In His Honor,

Jim Hauenstein,

And,

“Poe isn’t for everyone. He’s too heady a draft for that. He may not be for you. But there are secrets to appreciating Poe, and I shall let you in on two of the most important ones: read him aloud and alone!”

- Neil Gaiman -

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