This was a good football weekend, let me tell you. Michigan actually won, and against a top-10 team, LSU won (albeit against a not so great Mississippi State), and Florida lost (say it with me folks, he-he complete with Nelsonesque pointing). The Saints won and the Lions didn't lose (probably because they didn't play but we won't think of the glass half-empty). Matt Millen is no longer employed with the Lions so we can hope the franchise will turn around. And if it doesn't, we won't admit that he might not have been the problem. Deuce McAllister played, and played well thank you very much. I think the Saints organization has finally come to realize what he means to them and hopefully won't be stupid with him in the future.
In other news, there's the whole bailout mess. Maybe it's just me but does it not seem a bit unfair that we responsible folks have to keep paying our mortgage, pay the high gas prices, cut back everywhere we can to make up for the rise in everything from milk and bread to batteries and building materials, but these irresponsible buttheads in these corporations get a bailout from Uncle Sam for being greedy idiots. Once again, maybe it's just me.
Watched the presidential debates on Friday night. So far, not too impressed with either one, but have to admit I liked the fact that Obama would actually speak to McCain even if it was not reciprocated. Thursday's VP debate should be interesting. Heard they had to reformat the whole thing since they thought Palin wouldn't be able to handle a whole 5 minute discussion on issues going back and forth. If she can't handle 5 minutes discussing stuff before they're even elected, what's she going to do if she and McCain are elected? Call a timeout when discussing major issues? Have a break during speeches and summits? Just wondering.
Can't wait for November at life.sa.laugh@hotmail.com.
Monday, September 29, 2008
Wednesday, September 17, 2008
Random Thoughts
I don't know why I do this to myself, but I read the news on one or more the news websites every morning and I'm always shocked and the crap going on in the world. I'm also a little disappointed in us as Americans that some of our priorities for the media are more than a bit skewed. Examples you ask? Well, for one a story about Britney Spears seems to be more more important than a story about soldiers in Iraq. Whether or not Governor Palin really "killed" the "bridge to nowhere" is more important than how to help people losing their houses and jobs. I like sensational journalism as much as the next guy (loved the SNL skit with Tina Fey and Amy Poehler), but shouldn't these news outlets get back to covering what really matters? Just wondering.
There was a story about an inmate in Ohio that is on death row but they can't execute him because he's too fat. For me, this brings us two issues: 1) how does an inmate that supposedly being punished for what I'm guessing was a pretty heinous crime, if he's on death row, manage to get so much food that he's now obese and 2) if he's scheduled to die, what does it matter if he's fat? I guess his veins are now too hard to reach since he's gained so much weight. Why is a raping murderer able to get more food than hard-working Americans that are just struggling to get by? Once again, just wondering. Just to rub the salt into that wound a little further, these people working so hard just to put food on their tables, are paying for this guy to get fat. Nice huh? Oh the irony.
The aforementioned thought brings up another thought. It has to deal with the death penalty. I think that the death penalty should be applicable for certain crimes. And if it's an especially bad one, killing a child, for example, I think the inmate is getting off pretty easy with a lethal injection. I wonder about all these people who worry about the death penalty being "cruel and unusual punshiment." If this person is getting the death penalty, I think they inflicted cruel and unusual punshiment on their victim(s) and I'll be damned if I'm feeling bad for them. They're lucky our society doesn't follow through with that eye for an eye thing. Okay, done with that ranting. Sorry about that folks.
Chris Cooley of the Washington Redskins was in the news the other day as he had posted some pictures of himself um, without apparel if you will. He said he was just trying to show the game notes that he was looking at before the game and he just happened to be naked while doing so. My question is, how the hell do you let that happen? What kind of moron puts the book where he puts it and doesn't realize what might be captured for all to see? Oy. And these guys beat my Saints.
Well, that's it for my seemingly endless ramblings. More to come.
I think I need Ritalin at life.sa.laugh@hotmail.com.
There was a story about an inmate in Ohio that is on death row but they can't execute him because he's too fat. For me, this brings us two issues: 1) how does an inmate that supposedly being punished for what I'm guessing was a pretty heinous crime, if he's on death row, manage to get so much food that he's now obese and 2) if he's scheduled to die, what does it matter if he's fat? I guess his veins are now too hard to reach since he's gained so much weight. Why is a raping murderer able to get more food than hard-working Americans that are just struggling to get by? Once again, just wondering. Just to rub the salt into that wound a little further, these people working so hard just to put food on their tables, are paying for this guy to get fat. Nice huh? Oh the irony.
The aforementioned thought brings up another thought. It has to deal with the death penalty. I think that the death penalty should be applicable for certain crimes. And if it's an especially bad one, killing a child, for example, I think the inmate is getting off pretty easy with a lethal injection. I wonder about all these people who worry about the death penalty being "cruel and unusual punshiment." If this person is getting the death penalty, I think they inflicted cruel and unusual punshiment on their victim(s) and I'll be damned if I'm feeling bad for them. They're lucky our society doesn't follow through with that eye for an eye thing. Okay, done with that ranting. Sorry about that folks.
Chris Cooley of the Washington Redskins was in the news the other day as he had posted some pictures of himself um, without apparel if you will. He said he was just trying to show the game notes that he was looking at before the game and he just happened to be naked while doing so. My question is, how the hell do you let that happen? What kind of moron puts the book where he puts it and doesn't realize what might be captured for all to see? Oy. And these guys beat my Saints.
Well, that's it for my seemingly endless ramblings. More to come.
I think I need Ritalin at life.sa.laugh@hotmail.com.
Tuesday, September 09, 2008
Updates - Political Rant
It's been a while since the last post. Well with all the excitement from Faye, Hannah, Gustav and Ike, we've been on our toes down here in Mickey Mouseland South. Joy of joys, only about 3 more months of hurricane season. Yippee.
I have been trying to be a good American and follow the presidential race but I have to admit that I'm tired of listening to these people. It's always the negative stuff about the other guy. Tell me what you will do for us, how you will fix the problems we're facing, balance the budget since we're only $407 billion in debt (thanks George), get the troops home, fix the economy, curb global warming, get us off our dependence on foreign oil, and the list goes on.
Watching Obama you have to think he'll do well because he seems to have an engaging personality as opposed to McCain, who someone once described his speech giving "like watching paint dry." No offense Sen. McCain, but I'm just waiting for him to keel over from a stroke or something.
This brings me to another point. Gov. Palin has been all over the news since they announced that she would be the VP candidate with McCain. Everywhere you go, there she is. On magazine covers, on television, on the internet. The public seems pretty polarized with her, either loving her or hating her. I don't know what to feel about her. Well the "love her" side seems to think that the "hate her" side is unfairly attacking her. I say, welcome to the club. If you can't take the heat, get out of the kitchen. You have to know that this is expected during this time of the year. Elections are right around the corner and since she is an unknown, the opposing team is going to jump on every little piece of information that might bring her down, just the way the Republicans did to Obama.
Personally, I don't have a problem with her being a working mom. There are more than a few of us out there doing it and more power to you. While I admire that she has a special needs baby, and knew this before he was born, I don't think they need to milk it quite the way they have. People have special needs kids all the time and they aren't running to every media outlet announcing that they could have had an abortion but chose to give birth to the baby. I don't personally know anyone who wouldn't give birth to a baby with Down Syndrome. It's not the same as if they had the amniocentesis and found out the baby would be born missing all it's limbs or having severe structural deformities. That would have been something altogether different.
My concern is, as seems to be on the mind of many people, what are her ideas on reform. That seems to be her claim to fame in AK so what's she going to do in Washington? There are already stories of her getting money from lobbyists for her gas pipeline (to be fair, not sure if they're true), and then the story of her using her gubenatorial power to get a public safety official fired because he didn't fire an ex-brother-in-law (also waiting on the outcome of that). Though does look a bit wrong that when they mention having the whole debacle investigated by an ethics committee, she's trying to get it moved to a committee in which she's the chairman or some such thing. Isn't that the whole point of having a separate investigative body? Maybe it's just me. And the whole hulabaloo about the "bridge to nowhere" and how she said she was the one to kill it but they say she supported it, and the money it brought to her state, and then nixed it after Congress found out what a waste it was.
Her religion is her religion. I won't knock what someone believes unless they start trying to infringe on other people's rights. You don't like gays, fine. I don't think it's right to deny them benefits for the same-sex partner dealy that she did up in AK. If they pay taxes, shouldn't they get the same rights? Once again, maybe just me. Also, she has many quotes that she believes things are "God's will," which is fine but not when you're talking about war and you may be one of the people in charge of starting or finishing one. Best get your priorities straight on that one. Great that you son is being deployed to Iraq, but there are millions of other people who have loved ones that are being or have been deployed. If you care about them, look at options to get their loved ones home as soon as possible, minimizing any possible impact it may have globally.
I guess I'll have to wait and see how she does during the debates when she doesn't have a script to read off of and a teleprompter to use (heard that hers broke down during the RNC, tragedy of all tragedies right?). And for all those people that are asking why people are so concerned with her instead of John McCain, it may have to do with that nifty little article two of the Constitution of the United States of America. Let's face it folks, McCain is not getting any younger; if he's elected as president and something happens to him, we may be stuck with someone that we should have asked more questions of.
I'm just saying at life.sa.laugh@hotmail.com.
I have been trying to be a good American and follow the presidential race but I have to admit that I'm tired of listening to these people. It's always the negative stuff about the other guy. Tell me what you will do for us, how you will fix the problems we're facing, balance the budget since we're only $407 billion in debt (thanks George), get the troops home, fix the economy, curb global warming, get us off our dependence on foreign oil, and the list goes on.
Watching Obama you have to think he'll do well because he seems to have an engaging personality as opposed to McCain, who someone once described his speech giving "like watching paint dry." No offense Sen. McCain, but I'm just waiting for him to keel over from a stroke or something.
This brings me to another point. Gov. Palin has been all over the news since they announced that she would be the VP candidate with McCain. Everywhere you go, there she is. On magazine covers, on television, on the internet. The public seems pretty polarized with her, either loving her or hating her. I don't know what to feel about her. Well the "love her" side seems to think that the "hate her" side is unfairly attacking her. I say, welcome to the club. If you can't take the heat, get out of the kitchen. You have to know that this is expected during this time of the year. Elections are right around the corner and since she is an unknown, the opposing team is going to jump on every little piece of information that might bring her down, just the way the Republicans did to Obama.
Personally, I don't have a problem with her being a working mom. There are more than a few of us out there doing it and more power to you. While I admire that she has a special needs baby, and knew this before he was born, I don't think they need to milk it quite the way they have. People have special needs kids all the time and they aren't running to every media outlet announcing that they could have had an abortion but chose to give birth to the baby. I don't personally know anyone who wouldn't give birth to a baby with Down Syndrome. It's not the same as if they had the amniocentesis and found out the baby would be born missing all it's limbs or having severe structural deformities. That would have been something altogether different.
My concern is, as seems to be on the mind of many people, what are her ideas on reform. That seems to be her claim to fame in AK so what's she going to do in Washington? There are already stories of her getting money from lobbyists for her gas pipeline (to be fair, not sure if they're true), and then the story of her using her gubenatorial power to get a public safety official fired because he didn't fire an ex-brother-in-law (also waiting on the outcome of that). Though does look a bit wrong that when they mention having the whole debacle investigated by an ethics committee, she's trying to get it moved to a committee in which she's the chairman or some such thing. Isn't that the whole point of having a separate investigative body? Maybe it's just me. And the whole hulabaloo about the "bridge to nowhere" and how she said she was the one to kill it but they say she supported it, and the money it brought to her state, and then nixed it after Congress found out what a waste it was.
Her religion is her religion. I won't knock what someone believes unless they start trying to infringe on other people's rights. You don't like gays, fine. I don't think it's right to deny them benefits for the same-sex partner dealy that she did up in AK. If they pay taxes, shouldn't they get the same rights? Once again, maybe just me. Also, she has many quotes that she believes things are "God's will," which is fine but not when you're talking about war and you may be one of the people in charge of starting or finishing one. Best get your priorities straight on that one. Great that you son is being deployed to Iraq, but there are millions of other people who have loved ones that are being or have been deployed. If you care about them, look at options to get their loved ones home as soon as possible, minimizing any possible impact it may have globally.
I guess I'll have to wait and see how she does during the debates when she doesn't have a script to read off of and a teleprompter to use (heard that hers broke down during the RNC, tragedy of all tragedies right?). And for all those people that are asking why people are so concerned with her instead of John McCain, it may have to do with that nifty little article two of the Constitution of the United States of America. Let's face it folks, McCain is not getting any younger; if he's elected as president and something happens to him, we may be stuck with someone that we should have asked more questions of.
I'm just saying at life.sa.laugh@hotmail.com.
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