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| Just in case you want to check a current observation that you have missed, here they are. The archives on this page go back a couple of months. The More Archives go back a few months further. If you want something older send me an e-mail via the Feedback page, I can send you my archive file that goes all the way back to the beginning of this journey through the hallways of my mind. The comments on these pages are mine and mine alone. If you disagree with my opinion, that's your right. September 5, 2008....Moving
Shuttle Atlantis Hurricane Hanna is moving farther East, away from the Florida coast so NASA has determined that it’s safe to roll space shuttle Atlantis out to the launch pad in preparation for the scheduled Oct 8th liftoff. For an agency that is constantly looking into the future they sure have lost sight of what most likely will happen next week. Hurricane Ike is already packing 145mph winds and the projected track has it headed toward Florida with an arrival date early next week. The morons at NASA will no sooner get the shuttle out to the launch pad when they will have to roll it back into the vehicle assembly building. I don’t know how much it cost to transport the shuttle those few miles on the back of their slow moving crawler, but I’m sure it’s more than the yearly budget for many small towns. But what do they care? It’s only money and it’s not coming out of their pocket. Have you been watching this season's America's Got Talent? The program has obviously showcased all the talent this country has to offer in the previous seasons? So far this year I haven't seen anything that I'd call talent step out on the stage to perform. ABC news did a report on the Republican National Convention entitled “Hookers and Blow at the RNC.” Was it about prostitutes and cocaine? No,
Hookers and Blow is the name of a band that was playing at one of the convention
parties. Parties that were being held… oh my God… while people in the ABC slanted the story to make you believe that nobody from the Republican Party cared about what the people in the Gulf Coast states were going through. Truth is the people who were attending these parties are a thousand miles away and aren’t in a position to do anything to help. Did the whole country have to stop and collectively hold their breath until the danger had passed? This is a big country and I’m sure St. Paul, MN was not the only place where people were partying… I’ll bet if ABC had tried even a little bit they probably could have found a bunch of residents of New Orleans who were partying while the wind and rains from Gustav were beating against the windows and doors. I didn't know that Bristol Palin was running for public office? Bristol is the 17 year old daughter of Alaskan Governor Shara Palin. Shara has become John McCain's Vice Presidential pick for the Republican Party's bid for the fall election. Turns out Bristol is unmarried and currently 5 months pregnant. It might be something we should know... but that's all it is. The rest of it is a problem that only the Palin's need to deal with. Now that it's out in the open there should be no more discussion about it during the campaign... Even Barack agrees it's not a campaign issue... mainly because he doesn't want to open the door to criticisms of his own children, like young Sasha who kept talking right over top of her dad during that touching moment following Michelle Obama's convention speech... what a spoiled rotten little undisciplined brat she is. Good thing she's not running for office either. Obama’s acceptance speech… my first impression, he blew it big time. I know he got this far talking about the need for change, change you can believe in and how McCain is really another George Bush, but if he thinks the small percentage of undecided voters that will eventually decide this contest are going to be swayed onto his side of the fence without specifics he’s dead wrong. After spending the first part of his speech bashing the Bush policies… nothing more than expanded negative campaign commercials… he resorted to spewing the same talking points that he’s been hitting on for the last year… the need for abundant good jobs in America, health care for everyone, ending those evil tax breaks for corporations and rich people and setting a time table for getting our troops out of Iraq. The same Democrat rhetoric that was been used to get Obama the nomination was prevalent at Mile High Stadium last night and you could see the ‘deer in the headlights’ look on the faces in the crowd. Then Obama said, and I’m quoting him here; “I know there are those who dismiss such beliefs as happy talk. They claim that our insistence on something larger, something firmer and more honest in our public life is just a Trojan horse for higher taxes and the abandonment of traditional values. And that's to be expected. Because if you don't have any fresh ideas, then you use stale tactics to scare the voters. If you don't have a record to run on, then you paint your opponent as someone people should run from.” The last couple of sentences really took me by surprise because isn’t it Obama who doesn’t have any fresh ideas and is using stale tactics to scare the voters and isn’t it Obama who has no record to run on and therefore is painting his opponent as someone you should run from. Obama then went on to say; “You
make a big election about small things. Making a
big to-do about small things, isn’t that what the Obama camp is doing at the
moment with this nonsense over McCain knowing how many houses he owns. I
personally don’t give a rats ass how many houses any politician owns or if
they can tell you what that number is. In fact I can’t believe the FCC
hasn’t clamped down on Obama’s openly deceptive ads because McCain never
said ‘I can’t remember’ as the ad points out. I have no doubt that McCain
knew it was a loaded question when it was asked and is why he referred it to his
staff so he could be sure the question got answered correctly. McCain said
you’ll have to ask my staff, not I can’t remember. Obama is obviously
counting on the stupidity of the American voter to shine through and allow the
small things to factor into the big decision. Like he said… it’s worked
before. All in
all the speech was delivered with heart. It was not short on emotion nor was it
short on talking points and scare tactics… what it was was short on was
specifics and that’s what I thought we were being told we’d get. Instead we
got more of the same and we can count on getting nothing but the same right up
until election day… like Obama says, “it’s worked before.” The Democrats are doing a good job of portraying the average American family as being one Happy Meal away from a fiscal calamity after 8 years of the Bush administration. I can't argue the fact that times are tight. But if the delegates are just average citizens... and they have paid their own expenses to spend these past four days in Denver for the coronation of this election cycle's Democratic Party savior... how could they possibly be part of the down and out crowd that the Democrats pander to? Looks like time is running out for Casey Anthony… results from test on air samples taken from the trunk of her car have been confirmed that the odor present was from decomposing human flesh and over 400 pages of investigative material that was recently released to the public has the Bounty Hunter second guessing his involvement. I don’t know why the Orange County Sheriff’s office is still pussy footing around with this bitch. She belongs back in jail under strict suicide watch until she tells us what she did to Caylee! I can't believe with all that is coming to light that the Anthony's and their lawyer are still asking the public to search for Caylee... let's face it, its obvious to me that Casey did something that caused Caylee's death and now she's closed mouthed about it because she knows if they don't find the body they'll have a hard time prosecuting her for murder. Day one of the 2008 Democratic National Convention has come and gone and its interesting watching the liberals falling all over each other… patting themselves on the back; telling each other what a great job all the speakers have done. While on the other side of the isle the conservatives are pointing out what a piss poor job the Democrats are doing presenting their agenda or lack of one. You would think they were both watching two completely different events, but unfortunately it’s the same old politics that we’ve seen for decades… Nobody says much of anything, but everyone hears what he or she wants to hear. Even the ailing Senator Edward Kennedy showed up and gave a heartwarming speech about how the dreams and hopes of a better America lives on… similar to the one he gave 28 years ago and obviously a concept Washington is still trying to define. Unfortunately for the common working stiff personal aspirations of our politicians always seem to trump that dream once we send these people to Washington. On another note… much has been said about the choice of Joe Biden as a running mate given his previous comments that Obama isn’t ready to be president. To those I say, give me one other choice that Obama could have made who hasn’t made a similar statement? The one thing the Democrats seem to be in total agreement on is that Obama lacks the experience to be commander in chief, but that won’t stand in the way of his charismatic rise to power. Leonard Padilla, aka The Bounty Hunter says the people hiding 3 year old Caylee Anthony have 5 days to voluntarily return the child to her mother or he’s coming after them. What a jack-ass! If this little girl is alive safe and sound with friends wouldn’t someone have come forward by now. Casey, Caylee’s mom has been sticking to the story that she gave her toddler to friends to keep her safe… If the parent’s believed that story then why in hell are they continuing to beg the Sheriff’s department and the public to look for Caylee? A friend of Casey’s has told the Sheriff’s office that Cindy Anthony… Casey’s mom called him before Caylee went missing and told him Casey was a liar and a psychopath. Since Caylee was reported missing Cindy has been portraying a much different picture of her daughter. Personally I think the whole family is crazy and it seems to be a magnet for the nut cases out there. We’ll have to wait five days to find out what the story will be next week. Where were you at 3am this morning? If you were signed up with the Obama camp to get that text message announcing the Vice Presidential pick then you might have been answering your phone. Some thing tells me this wasn't the way it was supposed to happen... however the Obama campaign felt they had no choice after CNN found a Democrat who couldn't hold his wad any longer and spilled the beans about who Barack was going to tap for the VP spot. I'm sure the Barack people will blow it off or try to tell us that's the way they intended to do it... however we all know Barack blew the first really big decision he had to make and I can't wait to see how the late night comedians spin how the Democrats handled the big announcement. The circus continues… Casey Anthony made bond and walked out of the Orange County jail on Thursday morning surrounded by hordes of reporters fighting with each other to get that one big scoop. Casey’s mom prepared for the grand homecoming by shooing reporters off the sidewalk in front of their home using a garden hose. They ordered Domino’s pizza for lunch and I’m not sure how they know this, but the news was reporting by mid afternoon that Casey had taken a shower. It wouldn’t surprise me if the Anthony’s haven’t signed a contract to become the latest smash reality television show. Okay… so now that Casey has settled into home confinement, has had a hot shower and a good meal, well at least something to eat, when is she going to start opening up??? My guess is never. What I don’t understand is, now that Casey is on house arrest at her parents home, which means her parents are pretty much also trapped in the house and the media circus has condensed it’s operations to one location, who’s out looking for Caylee? Has the search boiled down to a waiting game? Waiting for Casey to start telling someone the truth. The two top contenders for President are on the verge of announcing who they have chosen to be their running mate… speculation is at an all time high, mainly because we’ve already heard about all we’re going to hear that’s new from either presidential hopeful and the media is looking for anything to spice up their election coverage. The names being batted around as being on the top of the short list are… Joe Biden for Barack Obama and Joe Lieberman for John McCain. All I can say is if the hype and speculation does end up becoming reality I’d have to think both candidates need to have their heads examined. Joe Biden? Couldn’t he be the poster child for what’s wrong in Washington? It’s going to be a tough sell for Barack’s ‘Change you can believe in’ when his VP choice is part of the problem. Joe Lieberman… last time I looked wasn’t he a Democrat? A marginal Democrat, but still a Democrat. Although he might be a good pick because McCain isn’t what I’d call a true Republican. Maybe McCain believes he can pick up Hillary supporters by putting a Democrat on the ticket with him and have the entire ticket teetering on top of that political party fence. My guess is that both Obama and McCain are at the point that they want to make a choice, but don’t have the balls to commit without venting the possibilities through the media… If that is the case, and judging by the negative reaction from the press, I don’t think either candidate will be picking their VP from the top of their short list. Who to hell is Leonard Padilla??? He calls himself a Bounty Hunter and he flew from California to Orlando to bond Casey Anthony out of jail. I really don't get his logic. He believes that once Casey is back home and can take a nice hot shower and eat hamburgers that she'll open up and tell him were to find Caylee. This guy has his head stuck so far up his own butt that he couldn't find a three year old at pre-K day at the zoo. I look at him and all I see is another publicity hound, which makes him a perfect fit for the Anthony family. Barack Obama raised $7,800,000 from three fundraising events Sunday. How does one raise that kind of money in one day? By doing what all politicians do… circumvent the campaign contribution rules using other rules written by their cohorts specifically to make it legal. It’s illegal for any one individual to donation more than $2,300 to any one candidate during any one particular campaign, but if you pay $28,500 for a dinner plate and the candidate makes a profit of $28,485 providing that meal then it’s not a campaign contribution. That’s bullshit! If you were buying Girl Scout cookies at the going rate of $3.00 a box there is no deductible charitable contribution, however if you gave that same Girl Scout $30,000 for a box of cookies you’d be eligible for a tax deduction of $29,997. I don’t know why the same logic doesn’t apply to these political fundraiser dinners? Anything over and above the value of the meal should be counted as a campaign contribution… after all nobody is trying to hide the fact that the money is going to be used to pay for the same campaign expenses as any other campaign contribution. Of course I’m just blowing smoke up my own ass because the politicians are laughing all the way to the bank. They know they can demand those huge campaign contributions from the well to do and influential people without any consequences. Campaign contribution limits are supposed to stop politicians from owing anyone anything if they get elected… unfortunately it’s been a long long time since we saw a political campaign that didn’t include big money contributors. Isn't Michael Phelps amazing!!! I think his gold metal count has got to be up around 100 if you count the number of reruns that I've had to endure the past couple of days... and that's only casually watching the Olympic coverage. Phelps says he's going to take a vacation now that it's over... Boy is he in for a rude awakening. If he thought he put himself through the wringer training just wait until the media and endorsement sponsors get through tugging on his extremities trying to cash in on his instantaneous celebrity status. Barack Obama is obviously counting on the ignorance of the American public to win the 2008 presidential race… He is currently running national ads that state that if he is elected he will put into place a ‘windfall profits’ tax on the income of those evil greedy oil companies so that he can turn around and give the average household a $1,000 check. Sadly his strategy might actually work because the majority of voters in this country are stupid enough to believe that this kind of economic plan will work. It’s the Robin Hood approach; taking from the rich to give to the poor. Only problem is we’re not dealing with some evil monarchy that is using their police powers to steal money from the masses. (Although if Barack does get elected we may be as close to that in this country than we have ever been before) The United States was created and thrives as a capitalistic society where corporations make profits by selling goods and services to those who need/want them. This creates jobs as well as wealth for the stockholders of those companies that are doing well. Nobody is forcing anyone to purchase gasoline… in fact the high price of gas has already created a drop in demand, which is the main catalyst for the recent drop in the price of petroleum. If the imperial Federal Government assesses an extra tax on just the oil companies, the oil companies then either have to take money away from it’s investors or they simply charges more for a gallon of gas. This is simple economics and Barack is smart enough to know that, however he’s banking on the masses being ignorant enough to swallow the bullshit that he's peddling. As reported in the US News and World Report, Rick Husong is surprised over the latest buzz surrounding thee messiah… Barack Obama. Its called the ‘Big O’ and is being described as the new hand signal for peace and love. The more I hear about people like Rick Husong empowering the stupid masses to hoist Obama up on a pedestal with a hand gesture the more I wonder how long it will take after these same star struck voters send the Big O to the White House before they realize what a colossal mistake they have made.
What is up with the canceled jail visits between Casey Anthony and her mother Cindy and Brother Lee? During the last few weeks every scheduled visit between these three principles in the case of missing three year old Caylee Anthony have been cancelled at the last minute without much of an excuse… Cindy keeps telling us the reason the meetings keep getting called off is to protect Casey and Caylee, which I think is a whole bunch of bull crap. What are they protecting Casey from? Accidentally telling the truth about what happened to Caylee? If not talking to Casey while she’s behind bars is so vital to the Anthony’s personal investigation then why do they schedule any visits to begin with? John Edwards has finally admitted that he tasted someone else’s cookies while running for president and his wife was battling breast cancer. And he was running on this high moral platform too. In the parts of the interview that I happened to see, Edwards was trying to justify his actions by saying that when your wielding so much power you feel you can get away with anything and won’t ever get caught… What a piece of shit! Any guy who cheats on his wife thinks they can get away with anything and never get caught. Being a presidential contender has nothing to do with being a low life human being. Ford has introduced the Flex, its newest CUV (Crossover Utility Vehicle.) It’s a boxy vehicle with 4 doors, three rows of seats and no trunk because the roofline is flat all the way to the back where you find the combination rear window/tailgate. If the description I just gave you conjures up memories of sexual experiences in the back end of the parent’s station wagon it’s most likely because this new CUV looks ever so much like the staple people movers of yesteryear. In fact if you put them side-by-side and all you saw was a silhouette you’d be hard pressed to tell which one was the newer model. I guess the more things change the more things stay the same… we’re hooked on acronyms and SW just didn’t cut the mustard when it comes to references for our automobiles. The energy issue has certainly been at the forefront of the presidential campaign this summer, however if gas prices keep falling to the predicted $3.50 a gallon by Labor Day will it still be on our minds come September? It’s that conditioning routine that we se happen over and over with energy costs… The price goes up until we say ouch and then it miraculously backs off a little and we wipe the sweat off our brow and breath a collective sigh of relief that the crisis is over. What I can’t believe is there is still a voter base in this country ignorant enough to pander to when it comes to those evil record profits of the oil company. It’s not the price of oil or the price of a gallon of gas at the pump… its profit stupid. If an oil company sells trillions of dollars of product and makes billions of dollars in profit it is no different than the neighborhood 12 year old who sells a hundred dollars worth of lemon-aid and makes ten dollars profit. When are you people going to get it!!! I don't believe it matters how many people call for change or how much the populous thinks they have the candidate of change... Nothing in Washington is ever going to change as long as the formula to getting elected president includes pandering to the stupid voter. The story of missing 2-year-old Caylee Anthony is going to be the feature article in the issue of People magazine that hit the newsstands today. The case has been and continues to be the most bizarre child disappearance I’ve ever seen… The grandmother, Cindy Anthony, was on the Today show again this morning. She was sitting beside… and I want to get this right… Casey’s attorney. (Cindy has made that very clear in previous interviews that this lawyer is not representing her, but he seems to always be right there whenever she does any kind of formal interview.) Matt Lauer kept pressing Cindy to share with him the new information that she keeps saying she has, but it’s like talking to a revolving door. Cindy wants the media, the general public and the police to concentrate on looking for Caylee, but she’s not at liberty to divulge any information that might make that job more productive. Which is it? She can’t continue to strut around under this cloak of secrecy, defending a daughter that is doing the same and at the same time expect anyone to take the missing child thing seriously. In the People magazine article there is apparently a picture of Cindy sitting on the floor in Caylee’s room holding a teddy bear with this forlorn look on her face… we’ll never know how long it took to set up and take this picture because you can bet the farm this wasn’t some candid shot the photographer happened to get lucky with. A few days ago I heard the cast of the Philips Phile radio broadcast discussing the computer literacy of President Bush, John McCain and Barak Obama. Apparently McCain has made the comment that he didn’t even know how to use one and they were trying to surmise if either President Bush or Obama knew how to e-mail or run a google search. Anyway… someone made the comment that they didn’t think Bush was smart enough to use a computer and then someone else said that maybe we needed to elect smarter people. That got me thinking… is this really the problem with Washington? We don’t elect smart people? Then I realized that the problem is deeper than that because we don’t ever seem to have any smart people to vote for. In fact, in the last couple of decades I can only think of two people who ran for president that I would consider smart… Ross Perot (1992) and Mike Huckabee (2008). Perot because he understood the damage that was being done by driving industrial jobs out of this country and Huckabee because he understands the boost to our economy that would come with replacing the current income tax code with the FairTax. Neither one of them got anywhere near residing in the White House… most likely because when either one of them spoke you had to use the power of your mind to think about what it was they were saying in order to fully comprehend and understand it. Here’s our real problem… most people in this country aren’t smart enough to spot an intelligent person running for public office. They would rather latch onto a snappy catch phrase like ‘Change you can believe in’ and blindly follow the emotional euphoria right into the voting booth. Are we getting close to the day that John McCain and Barak Obama announce their choice to fill their Vice Presidential slot? It’s pretty much the next and only big news left to come out of this presidential campaign cycle and we haven’t even got to the Republican and Democrat National Conventions. This is going to be such a boring campaign… how many times are we going to be able to stomach to hear the same tired old message why the other guy is a bad choice. In reality it points out the fact that we really don’t have a good choice when it comes to choosing the next president. Let’s take a look at this weekend’s breaking news and updates in the search for 2-year-old Caylee Anthony… On Sunday evening supporters held a prayer vigil in front of the grandmother’s home. I often wonder what, if anything, is going on inside the feeble minds of those who organize and/or attend prayer vigils. Do they think God is going to personally solve the case because several mindless sheep are pleading for his help? Maybe as they all sway back and forth in unison with their candles burning singing Kum-by-ah they’re hoping for one of those miracle stars to appear in the evening sky that will lead some wise men to Caylee’s whereabouts. One attendee, Erin Kennedy told reporters she drove two hours from Palm Coast because she has a daughter near the age of Caylee… she dragged her poor child and her husband along with her on the 6 to 8 hour trip so she could join a group of strangers in praying for the safe return of someone who two weeks ago she didn’t know existed and who’ll be just as anonymous to her two weeks after they find the body. I just don’t get it… am I the only one who feels pretty certain that the mom killed this little girl? I doubt it… everybody else is just too chicken to say so. Casey Anthony, who is still trying to get out of jail and can’t make up her mind if she wants to be part of the solution or continue to be the majority of the problem, got a visit from her brother Lee on Monday morning. After taking face to face with Casey he announced that his sister doesn’t trust the Orange Co Sheriff’s office and is willing to talk to investigators from the FBI. If this woman had any information that would lead to the ‘safe’ return of her child don’t you think she would have already divulged that information? That’s why I’m convinced prosecutors want to keep her in jail until she cracks and tells them where the body is so they don’t end up with another Melinda Duckett on their hands. The tapes of Cindy Anthony’s calls to 911 were released yesterday and they made me wonder what kind of drugs this woman and her daughter are on. The verifiable information available just doesn’t add up. And the rest of what they say seems to be a lot of garbage... at least it has nothing to do with finding this little girl. The case of missing 2-year-old Caylee Anthony has entered its second week of public scrutiny and has gained the attention of the national media. I can only imagine, but the street the grandparents live on must be looking like the parking lot of the Super Bowl with all the media trailers and reporters trying to out scoop each other. On Tuesday Caylee’s mom, Casey Anthony was granted a $500,000 bond despite the fact that she has given several conflicting and false statements to the police and cadaver dogs discovered evidence of decomposing human remains in the trunk of Casey’s car and in the backyard of the grandparents home. The grandmother, Cindy Anthony is livid about her daughter being held in jail and with the size of the bond and vented her frustration in front of a national audience as she exited the courthouse immediately following her daughter’s bond hearing. What bothers me in all of this is where the focus has been since the case went public two weeks ago? It’s all been about the mother’s plight to get out of jail and the grandmother’s persistence to assist her daughter in gaining her freedom. Where is the concern in any of their faces for missing Caylee? You don’t see any emotional outbursts and pleas for the safe return of the child by any of the family members, which leads me to believe that they all have something to hide. What is all this flap about Brett Farve retiring… not retiring… coming out of retirement… blah blah blah. As far as I’m considered since the NFL hasn’t seen a timed snap since Farve made his announcement that he was retiring then its like a marriage that is never consummated… give Farve a reprieve similar to an annulment and let him start over. As far as his role on the team… hasn’t it always been the goal of the coaching staff to put the best personnel on the field? If that’s true then Farve would have to earn a starting spot on the roster during training camp, accept a backup role or get to hell out of the sport. Hydrogen Fuel Cell vehicles are being hailed as the Holy Grail to solving our energy and environmental problems. Having our highways full of cars and trucks whose only by-product is water sounds great, but are we just replacing one problem for another? I read a story that said as much as 30% of The other problem I see is what happens to all the warm water being released by our planet friendly zero emission cars? If we just let it run off into the rivers and lakes won’t that raise the temperature of the water and kill all the vegetation and fish? My son has the solution… which will also solve the problem of developing a system of hydrogen distribution… create a fuel cell car that produce its own hydrogen from the water it creates. Fill it up one time and then just keep recycling the liquid and gas in a continuous loop to create unlimited power. Today should be day four of the news media’s 24/7 tribute to Tony Snow (Fox newscaster and former Presidential Press Secretary who passed away early Saturday morning.) Unfortunately Tony Snow worked for Fox and was on the conservative side of the news working for the Bush administration, so in the grand scheme of things he barely gets a mention on any of the major networks news broadcasts. When Tim Russert passed away and it was all the networks could talk about for days we were told that the media was memorializing one of their own; the lack of coverage by CNN, NBC, CBS and ABC honoring Tony Snow’s accomplishments proves that the Tim Russert frenzy was more because he was on the liberal side of the fence than it was because he was a fellow news broadcaster. The City of Atlanta… and soon the entire country… will be replacing all of its “Men at Work” and “Men Working Ahead” signs with ones that are gender neutral because Cynthia Good, the editor for Woman’s magazine had had enough of the gross inequity inherent with the standard construction warning signs and pitched a fit with the Mayor. Obviously there is one person on the planet… and I think she knows who she is, who is stupid enough to think that a construction sign that says “Men at Work” excludes women from the equation. I can’t think of the last time (or the first time) I went through a construction zone and said to myself… oh my god, they failed to tell me on the signage that there would be women working here too. The last month has been a blur… my wife had hip replacement surgery a month ago and then a week later my youngest son spent six days in the hospital with an illness that has so far baffled all the doctors he’s seen. We still don’t know how to treat his symptoms, so it’s off to see more doctors. Hopefully my life will get back to normal in the near future… if I could ever call my life normal. Now that the price of a gallon of gas has risen to $4 there is a lot of talk about how we as Americans are going to deal with the sudden rise in our everyday living expenses. Are we going to drive less? Are we going to all ditch the gas guzzling SUV for a glorified golf cart? Of all the ideas that I have heard, the one that I like the sound of is the shift to a four-day workweek. I don’t know about anybody else, but having a three-day weekend every week would generate a huge boost in my overall morale. That said… because I think it’s a great idea is reason enough to believe that the idea will never fly in the reality of the business world. Scheduling problems and overlapping days off will create too much confusion for the country as a whole to embrace the concept… too bad too because I was already making plans for having Monday off. Florida executed Mark Dean Schwab at 6pm last night for the murder of an 11 year old boy back in 1991. The prison at Starke was bombarded with supporters from both sides of the death penalty issue... don't these people have a life? What I find sad is that it has taken our legal system 17 years to carry out Schwab's execution. When people say the death penalty doesn't deter capital crime they fail to take into consideration the fact that we constantly show our lack of balls when it comes down to doing the deed. If they'd start taking these murderers from the court room straight into the care of a waiting executioner you'd see a big change in the mind set of your average thug. Oil is in high demand and short supply world wide, which is why the price for a barrel of oil has risen to the record levels they are at now and the price at the pump is a staggering $4 a gallon. Wouldn't logic dictate that if you could increase those supplies to meet demand the price would come back down. Barack Obama must have missed those basic economic lessons while attending school... he has said, 'we can't drill our way out of high gas prices.' I'll grant you, drilling won't bring about instant relief at the pump. It might be 3 years or more before drilling now will increase the supply, however every day we delay drilling is one more day before there is any chance for an increase in the supply. To make matters worse, Obama also believes that the government can tax away the oil company profits as excessive and somehow that will cause the price of a gallon of gas will shrink. God help us if the Democrats win this fall's election and gain control of the White House and both houses of Congress. They will tax us right into another great depression. Gay marriages became legal in California Monday at 5pm and hundreds of gay and lesbian couples flooded city halls all over the state to take advantage of the situation before some court changes its mind. For what ever reason the media thinks the general public needs to see in-depth reporting on the process of gay and lesbian marriage including the happy couple's first kiss as man and man or woman and woman. In my opinion they have taken their obligation to bring gay marriage into the heart of the heterosexual living room a bit too far. Their are so many heterosexual religious groups that feel they should have a monopoly on the term 'marriage' by defining it as a union between one man and one women with a constitutional amendment. Those are the ones who keep the issue in the forefront... if they would just let it go it wouldn't be long before the whole concept would fade off into the sunset and we wouldn't be force fed gays and lesbians every time we turned around. What! Tim Russert died? What was my first clue? Could it be the fact that every major media outlet has been running a 24/7 Tim Russert memorial for the last three days. From the coverage you'd think Russert was some sort of god and I guess to many of his colleagues he was. Unfortunately to me he was just another left wing liberal reporter who felt he had the answer to anything political. I wonder if anyone checked into the possibility that he died of a broken heart... unable to cope with the loss of Hillary Clinton in the presidential race. Are 'Gay Days' in Orlando over with so I can I safely wear my red shirt again? I don't have any animosity toward those who prefer to live the gay lifestyle, but who gave them permission to steal a whole color? For a week every year they hold the straight population of the Metropolitan Orlando area at bay by making red their flag ship color and I don't think its fair. After all it usually isn't very hard to mistake a couple of guys who are holding hands or otherwise hanging all over each other in public as being anything else but funny strange. The same goes for the women... one of which usually looks like a heavy equipment operator with boobs. If the gays want to declare an unofficial gay pride week here in Orlando that's fine by me... please don't take away one of my color choices in the process. A jubilant Barack and Michelle Obama took the stage on Tuesday night after crossing one more hurdle toward their quest to become President and First Lady. They hugged and then Michelle gave Barack a fist bump, which caused quite a stir within the media. Nobody was quite sure what to call it... it was another first in politics. Hey! Maybe the media hasn't noticed, but Barack is black. Were they showing the world which side of the tracks their heritage lies with their small gesture of approval? Don't look now, but the hood has arrive and it has it's eye on the White House. So Barack Obama is poised to be the 2008 Democrat nominee for President and Hillary is going to take a few days to evaluate her options... the only surprise from the events of last night was how upbeat and controlled Hillary was, which was a big disappointment to me since I was hoping for a meltdown in front of a national television audience. I listened to both Hillary and Obama's speeches. Hillary seemed to be placing a noose around the Obama camp to make her the VP candidate on the grounds that she has millions of supporters and can deliver the key states needed to win... besides reminding us that she's still the best person out there to be president. Obama on the other hand rallied the crowd with the same empty talking points that we've been hearing for a year and the crowd of 20,000 cheered him on, feeding the frenzy. At one point Obama praised John McCain's accomplishments during his military career and in the Senate, which he followed up with a hope that McCain would return the favor and acknowledge his. I immediately began hoping that Obama would spit out a few of those accomplishments... unfortunately I guess Obama himself is having a tough time answering that one because he failed to seize the moment and put that burning question to rest. So the stage is set and we have 5 months to listen to the candidates bash each other until were numb. Something to look forward to during the hot humid days of summer. Is this the last day for the Hillary ’08 campaign? Hillary has scheduled her last post primary speech from New York and has told most of her people to go home. Will we finally hear her admit defeat? The more pressing question should be will the Hildabeast bow out gracefully or will she implode on national television? I’m hoping for the later. Either way I wouldn't want to be on Bill's side of her bed tonight. Come to think of it I wouldn't want to be on Bill's side of her bed ever! |
