Before
- Obviously Michele Bachmann wasn’t there when the Republicans read the Constitution at the beginning of the year. #TCOT #TeaParty 8:40 PM EST
- Wow, what a leader. That’ll kick off my #SOTU and absence from tweeting. 8:42 PM EST
- No one’s talking about Joe Wilson? Will he be gagged? #HeresHoping 8:50 PM EST
- That’s the entire #SOTU, Obama shaking everyone’s hands. 9:09 PM EST
State Of The Union
- Bill Maher said it best. The common ground seems to always be where the Republican is standing. #SOTU 9:15 PM EST
- New jobs will come from China… and be there too. Where are those cars and computers made? China. #SOTU 9:24 PM EST
- So we’re supposed to stroke research and development by not spending? Got it. #SOTU 9:25 PM EST
- But when parents have to work 12 hour days just to make ends meet, it’s kinda hard to teach those good principles. #SOTU 9:31 PM EST
- Wasn’t there a hiring freeze for teachers in most states? #SOTU 9:34 PM EST
- Yes there are many illegal immigrants in our schools, but the DREAM act killed their chances of being citizens. #ThanksRepublicans #SOTU 9:37 PM EST
- These other countries actually invest in their infrastructures. We should take a lesson from them. #SOTU 9:39 PM EST
- Obama hasn’t even mentioned NAFTA or lack of terrifs which hurt jobs in this country. #SOTU 9:45 PM EST
- Debt began a decade ago? Try three decades ago with the Republican hero, Reagan. #SOTU 9:48 PM EST
- We knew he’d say it. “The state of our Union is strong.” When is it not strong? Why is it always sugar coated? #SOTU 10:14 PM EST
Republican Response
- You didn’t cut spending a few years ago. Huge debts are due to Republican spending. 10:28 PM EST
- And even more people would lose their coverage if #HCR wasn’t passed. And the health insurance mandate? A Republican idea. 10:29 PM EST
- You thought endless borrowing was alright under Bush. 10:33 PM EST
Tea Party Response
Barely worth mentioning, but I’ll make a few points that I didn’t on twitter since the Tea Party Express website was slow:
- So the economic collapse had nothing to do with failed Bush policies or lack of government regulation which helped to ship jobs overseas?
- The stimulus saved jobs that would have been lost. That’s a fact. And the stimulus would have done a lot more if 1/3 of it wasn’t tax breaks.
- Did I miss something? I don’t hear anyone telling me what light bulbs to buy.
- Nothing was stopping businesses from dropping health insurance before, so why didn’t they? It would have been a lot cheaper.
- I remember gas being a lot more expensive under that oil man Bush.
- I’ll pay $100 million in government regulations if I can drink clean water, eat clean food, and buy safe products. Thanks.
- We can start making things again when we reinforce tariffs and stop giving tax breaks to companies who ship jobs overseas.
My car is basically brand new. His name is Orion. He’s a Toyota Prius. I’ve had him about two years now. He has about 20,000 miles on him.
So I’m driving to work, like usual, I had just dropped Brian off, when all of a sudden my accelerator stopped working. I just thought, oh Prius! I tried to use it again and it wouldn’t accelerate. It then flashed warnings at me. Check engine as well as the big fat red triangle with an exclamation point (that means BAD). So I pulled over. I’m on 270 I thought I can’t break down here, I got to get to work.
I just restarted the car. The warnings were still there, but I tried to get it to work. I was like a mile away. I drove it as far as it would go then it stopped going. Oh joy! I’m in the middle of the frickin road! I call Brian and freak out on him cause he just changed the air filter last night, thinking he did something. He told me to call Geico, so I did.
They were really cool. They called a tow truck for me. For free. They said an hour, so I called Bri to let him know. He was on his way, he called a taxi.
I waited there, must have been like 20-30 minutes just sitting there in the middle of the road. A cop came by but didn’t offer any help. Got lots of honks. But I actually had a woman in a minivan stop to see if I needed help. Just thinking, man, people are not like what they used to be.
Anyway, Bri finally got there. Then a cop shows up. This time one who wanted to help. He said we should push the car over, out of the road, so we pushed it over to the side.
I hugged Brian and walked to work. All that’s left is waiting for the tow truck and then Toyota.
So Bri went to Toyota with the car. About an hour and a half later they diagnosed the problem… it was rat crap. Rat crap had gotten into my engine.
Apparently rats and mice like to live under cars at night. While they’re there they poop and sometimes chew through wires. No wires were chewed, luckily. Just the poop got sucked into the air filter and had a hole in that, then into the engine.
Weird, huh? The bill will be around $200. They had to replace the air filter (which Bri had JUST replaced the night before) and clean out the engine.
Crazy… Size_t will now be in charge of watching for mice at night.
Alright, I’m setting more realistic goals this year:
- Eat a lot less meat, including less seafood (this is gonna be tough! I’ll be blogging about this later)
- Ride the scooter when I can
- Host more parties and get togethers
- See far away friends more (including the Tricia)
- Snowboarding, master the bunny slope and the lift, turn left (I’m like Zoolander)
- Go on at least two fun trips and a vacation (maybe)
- Make more friends (always a goal)
- Work on my Wiki
- Don’t shop at Walmart
- Get into better shape (either by Brazilian Ju Jitzu, running, snowboarding, etc, just keep it up)
Here are my tweets from the trip Bri and I took to Atlantic City. We spent New Years there.
Thursday December 30, 2010
- Had lunch at Chipotle, getting gas, and continuing on the road. 3:37 PM EST
- Just went through a small, depressed town. I don’t know where all these people work considering the KFC went out of business. 4:49 PM EST
- Checked in, relaxing, then hitting the comedy club. #AtlanticCity 6:03 PM EST
- Front row for the comedy show. We didn’t get picked on too badly. I’m a snowboarder who smokes. Alright. 10:44 PM EST
- Maybe this city will make more sense in the day… and when the alcohol is gone. #atlanticcity 10:56 PM EST
Friday December 31, 2010
- Continental breakfast sucked. Maybe tomorrow they’ll have stuff. 9:41 AM EST
- $20 to park? What do they outline their parking spaces with gold? I don’t think so, I’ll walk, thanks. 11:46 AM EST
- Just got a massage. Now walking the #Boardwalk looking for food. These seagulls are like torpedoes! 1:23 PM EST
- Waiting for the shuttle to take us into town. All you can eat lobster and seafood awaits. #NYE 7:02 PM EST
- Just had probably the most expensive meal of my life. Lobster is overrated. 9:24 PM EST
- The DJ here sucks. And it’s not because I’m drinking. Beers are hard to get here anyway. 11:22 PM EST
- Alright, I’m getting crazy now. I’m going to stand up and hold my Bri Bri for the rest of the year. 11:58 PM EST
Saturday January 1, 2011
- HAPPY NEW YEAR TO ALL! May 2011 be an excellent year. 12:01 AM EST
- Ugh, biggest regret of the year so far is buying that pretzel. #2011regrets 12:20 AM EST
- Ready to catch the bus to the Tropicana. Grab some lunch and walk around. 1:01 PM EST
- Stoke up a deal to get shot glasses. They’re ridiculous here. 3:53 PM EST
- Just got run over by some dude who stole something. I’m done with this ghetto city. #atlanticcity 5:15 PM EST
- Won $17, which paid for dinner tonight. 6:00 PM EST
- Third Eye Blind concert at Showboat. 7:06 PM EST
- The bass is making the seats bounce here at the #3EB concert. 9:51 PM EST
- I just guessed Air Force One just by the intro music. Brian’s disgusted. #GetOffMyPlane 12:32 PM EST
Sunday January 2, 2011
- Continental breakfast and now on our way home! Puppies await! 8:50 AM EST
- Going through a little town flooded with solar panels. They’re on every other telephone pole. #awesome 9:32 AM EST
Pics and story will be up, maybe tonight sometime. No promises.
I haven’t really been good about blogging about this. I see a lot of red from before. Here’s the final for 2010:
- See Aunt Ruth & Aunt Janet more (not good at seeing AJ, but she’s so hard to get a hold of sometimes)
- Eat less meat and find more things to eat that are vegetarian (found more pasta stuff, pizza, breads, shrimp, seafood)
- Get Candi off the cone (we take the cone off at night and she’s doing fine without it, so long as we’re home)
- Settle Dad’s estate (not under my control)
- Fix the Camaro and paint it (done)
- *you know*
- Ride the scooter to work (since I switched jobs I don’t get to do this, it’s winter as well, in spring I’ll break Tobey out again)
- Host at least three parties (I think we had 1, mini parties, sure)
- Snowboarding, master the bunny slope and be able to get off the lift without falling (this season)
- Donate money to charity (I did and then my family needed a loan, sigh)
- Go on vacation and take more weekend breaks (Atlantic City for NYE)
- Get better at debating (totally)
- Make more friends (probably a goal next year as well)
- I may delete my facebook page (eh, I’ll keep it)
- I’ll be setting up my own wiki of my life (done, I just need to put more stuff in it)
- Take more pictures… maybe… of parties I attend and stuff (new digital camera, droid helpful)
Productive year!
John Boehner, soon to be Speaker of the House, has been crying a lot lately. However, judging by Boehner’s votes, he doesn’t seem to be all too sincere about the things he “cares” and “cries” about such as children having the same opportunity as him for the “American Dream”. Here’s some of his recent votes:
- Voted against SCHIP (the program that provides health care to poor children)
- Voted against the stimulus (which gave people/saved jobs, among other things)
- Voted against the 9/11 first responders bill (which gave health care to those who helped clean up 9/11)
- For free trade and trade agreements that made it easier to ship jobs overseas
- Wants to cut everything except defense in discretionary spending (such as education, infrastructure, agriculture which only accounts for 43% of discretionary spending)
- Opposes hiring more women and minorities
- Opposes federal funding for health care
- Voted against the DREAM Act (which would give children who were brought here at a young age a path to citizenship)
- Opposes amnesty and a path for undocumented workers becoming citizens
- Voted against modifying bankruptcy laws (which would have avoided foreclosures)
- For cutting education (also voted against grants for minority colleges and green public schools)
- Voted against HCR (which had laws against children and people being denied health care due to preexisting conditions, among many other things)
- Voted for spending that ran up the national debt during Bush (which leaves the debt to our children)
- Voted against middle class tax cuts
A very good actor, that tan man is.
Just a mini rant here, why don’t people wave anymore? I let people in all the time and none recently have given me a little wave. I feel so dissatisfied. Here I am slowing down to let a guy in and he can’t even take his stupid hand off the wheel for a second to give me any thanks.
Sometimes I really have to go out of my way and slow down a lot and force the people behind me to slow down. And they can’t even wave “thanks”. People suck sometimes.
I would probably add some rant about politics too, but I have the tumblr for notes to alleviate some political rage. Debunking and other rants will still remain on this blog.
I’ve been out of it for a few weeks since the election. It really hit me hard. An overwhelming sense of depression, helplessness, and hopelessness for our country. I haven’t tweeted or done anything social networky in weeks.
I wanted to blog about this before last week, but I was hoping last weeks episode of Dexter could have changed how I felt about the show. It didn’t really, despite the two somewhat shockers.
This season of Dexter has just sucked. I kept searching for Dexter in the news and found an article today, finally, verifying that there WILL BE a sixth season. I have mixed feelings about that considering how crappy this season has been, but it’s good to know that the stupid cop guy (the one who Quinn hired) will probably not be the one to take Dexter down.
So I’ve compiled a list of why this season sucks:
- No personal relationship with the villain(s) – In season 1, it was Dexter’s bro which we found out at the end. In season 2, it was Dexter himself. In season 4, it was Trinity of whom we had a known relationship from the start. Maybe we’ll know more about the Jordan Chase people, but there’s only four episodes left…
- No twists or shockers – With the exception of the last episode (a tiny bit).
- No character building – Are we just learning about Lumen the whole time?
- Little emotion shown by Dexter – At least the first episode there was sort of emotion. I did like when he covered Lumen’s ears though last episode.
- Little Harry involvement – I can’t remember the last time Dexter talked to Harry. He doesn’t even have flashbacks or anything. At first I didn’t like the Harry/Dexter talking, but now it’s an important part of the show.
- Little time’s going by – So I guess we’re only like a month after Rita’s death? Shouldn’t Dexter still be grieving? Shouldn’t anyone still be grieving?
- No one knows Dexter’s secret – Strike that now. Lumen knows but it wasn’t a shocker.
- No cliffhangers – I hate cliffhangers to begin with, but this season has nothing. Maybe with the exception of last episode. There’s been nothing that makes me want to scream or tweet. Not Dexter like at all if you’ve seen any episode.
- Previews don’t make me want to tune in – Seriously, I’m not thrilled like I was last season with previews. They don’t show anything that really make me want to watch or get me on the edge of my seat or wanting it to be Sunday even when it’s Friday night.
- Julia Stiles takes away – Is it just me or does her acting suck? She was so good in10 Things I Hate About You.
- Little problems get solved right away – Like with Laguerta’s money… solved by the end of the episode. Nothing’s lingering or coming back to haunt anyone.
- No explanation of little things that matter – Like the dude Dexter killed in the first episode… what happened with that? Did he really clean up the body, clean up the blood, shower, change clothes, and get to the funeral that quickly? I still don’t understand why Paul’s parents (let alone anyone) weren’t at Paul’s funeral in season 2.
- A nobody has gotten closer to Dexters secret than anyone else – Even Doakes didn’t get THAT close. Who the hell is this character of whom we know nothing about and who has nothing to do with any of the other characters. That blows.
As promised, my list of achievements the 111th Congress and Barack Obama have accomplished:
- American Recovery & Reinvestment Act of 2009 (the stimulus) – tax credits for home buyers, making work pay, etc
- Patient Protection & Affordable Care Act (health care reform) – ends lifetime caps, no denial for pre-existing conditions, etc
- Student loan overhaul – cuts out the banks or the middle men saving over $63B
- Increased fuel efficiency standards – 35 MPG by 2016 when it was originally by 2020
- Overturned the EPA (Bush) ruling that California couldn’t set it’s own MPG regulations
- Allowed federal funding for stem cell research
- Expanded the federal hate crimes bill to sexual orientation or gender identity
- Dismantling of nuclear weapons and limiting when they can be used
- Withdrew troops from Iraq – did so three months before the planned timeline
- Equal pay for women
- Two Supreme Court Justices – two women
- Car Allowance Rebate System (cash for clunkers) – statistics say increased fuel efficiency an average of 9.6 MPG or 61% for cars turned in
- Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform & Consumer Protection Act
- Increased federal regulation of tobacco
- Set fuel efficiency standards on trucks and vans for the first time
- Tax incentives to hire the unemployed
In these times we’re living with a global recession of this magnitude, of which experts have claimed would take generations to clean up, you have to admit they’ve done a lot of good with the bad hand they were dealt.
I’ve felt that extreme dislike for the Democrats; extreme dislike for Obama. But I realize, this list, this blog post, I could go into so much detail of each item and it would seem endless; and I’m sure I’ve missed some. These are just highlights. If you go into specifics about these, you really do see a great picture of the grand things Obama and the Democrats have accomplished in just two years time.
If I may ask, give them two more years. If after two years, things are still hellish, then vote them out. Putting the Republicans back in office would spell disaster for this country (as we’ve seen), and this time, it’s worse. There are so many extreme candidates in this race like Sharron Angle, Ken Buck, and Rand Paul. Lord knows what our country would look like if they get power.
Regardless, I plead with you, like I have before, go out and vote tomorrow, November 2, 2010. Even if you’re 100% discouraged by anything and everything, just go. Every vote matters and every vote counts. This nation is too hurt to sit this one out. Get your say. No one can stop you. There’s nothing to fear.
I probably have better things to blog about like the email I just got and had to reply and debunk, but Bill Maher had a rant which I felt needs to be said more (though not verbatim). He was talking about Virginia Thomas and that whole message thing, but it morphed into talking about Citizens United.
Because of the Supreme Court decision last year, which her husband ruled on, which basically negated McCain Feingold, in all this secret money in checks they say up to twenty million dollars from hedge fund managers, from fat cats; and people don’t know where it’s coming from. It’s coming into this election. This is a giant scandal which of course people don’t care about anymore than they care about Darfur because it’s not on Dancing With The Stars.
The Tea Party likes to coin the phrase “Wake Up America”, I think it’s true. But America needs to actually wake up to the corruption and propaganda and anything else they actually believe from an email, Fox News, or from a 30 second commercial. They need to stop watching their reality TV and get back to their actual reality and fact check and do research into their candidates before blindly voting. There’s so much unchecked money going into this election, and it’s not going to stop. Republican candidates don’t even care who’s putting up propaganda to attack their opponent, just so long as they win.
To try to encourage more turn out at the polls next week, I’ll be blogging my long list of achievements Obama and this Democratic controlled Congress has had over the past two years. They have been the most productive Congress since the 1960’s.
Last week in the NFL there were quite a few hard hits that knocked some players out. This week the league has decided they will start suspending players for these “dangerous hits”. As if the “Brady Rule” wasn’t enough, there will probably be more rules and regulations on how to tackle a guy who has the ball (that the refs can flag at their own discretion no doubt). It seems the league and Roger Goodell is determined to try for that 18 game season.
Let me just say that I find this totally disgusting. One of the reasons we watch football is to see good, hard hits. Most of the hits I saw in replays I thought were clean.
Take the one on DeSean Jackson. He WAS NOT a defenseless receiver. He had already caught the ball, made a football move, and got wacked. It wasn’t a dirty hit. The defensive player (Dunta Robinson) didn’t lead with his helmet. He slammed against Jackson causing Jackson and him to both go to the ground. It should have been a fumble since Jackson lost the ball. Both players suffered concussions.
I ask, what are these defensive players supposed to do? Slow down so the player with the ball can run right by them? It’s their job to tackle. How are they supposed to do it running at full speed without causing a collision?
It’s the game of football but lately it seems the league wants to make this flag football. With more and more of these stupid rules going into effect, that’s what it will turn out to be. Football is physical. If players didn’t want to risk injury, they shouldn’t play. They should fall back on their communications degrees. It’ll be sad to see all the players that will be suspended for hits refs can easily claim to be “dirty”. With that power, refs can have even more influence over games and scores.
And answer me this, how can a league who has an intro of a helmet to helmet collision (a rule which has been illegal for a while)Â keep instilling rules and regulations on players who’s job it is to be physical?
Thought I’d blog about things Sharron Angle has said since it’s close to the mid terms.
2010: Angle: “People ask me, ‘What are you going to do to develop jobs in your state?’ Well, that’s not my job as a U.S. senator.”
2010: Angle: “The Second Amendment is the right to keep and bear arms for our citizenry…This is for us…This is for us when our government becomes tyrannical…”
2010: Angle: “The Federal Department of Education should be eliminated. The Department of Education is unconstitutional and should not be involved in education, at any level.”
2010: Angle: “We needed to have the press be our friend … We wanted them to ask the questions we want to answer so that they report the news the way we want it to be reported.”
2010: Angle: “I’m not even sure where in the Constitution our federal government is supposed to be involved in Medicare.”
2010: Angle: “We need to phase Medicare and Social Security out in favor of something privatized.”
2010: Angle: “Whenever I say privatize I don’t mean governmental privatization. I mean actual free market privatization.” (When asked on if Social Security should be privatized.)
2010: Angle: “I hope that’s not where we’re going, but you know if this Congress keeps going the way it is, people are really looking toward those Second Amendment remedies…”
2010: Angle: “I’ll tell you the first thing we need to do is take Harry Reid out.” (In the same speech as the above quote.)
2010: Angle: “The whole point of an interview is to use it like they say, ‘earned media,’ to earn something with it… And I’m not going to earn anything from people who are there to badger me and use my words to batter me with.”
2010: Angle: “Not in my book.” (When answering if there’s any reason for an abortion. When asked to follow up on rape or incest she claims “God has a plan and purpose for each one of our lives.”)
2010: Angle: “No it doesn’t.” and “Thomas Jefferson was actually addressing a church and telling them through his address that there had been a wall of separation put up between the church and the state precisely to protect the church.” and “To protect the church from being taken over by a state religion. And that’s what they meant by that.” (All quotes when questioned about her views on the separation of church and state which arises out of the Constitution.)
2010: Angle: “I feel the same about legalizing alcohol.” (When asked about legalizing marijuana, she expressed her opposition and said this.)
2010: Angle: “What is a little bit disconcerting and concerning is the inability for sporting goods stores to keep ammunition in stock… That tells me the nation is arming. What are they arming for if it isn’t that they are so distrustful of their government? They’re afraid they’ll have to fight for their liberty in more Second Amendment kinds of ways. That’s why I look at this as almost an imperative. If we don’t win at the ballot box, what will be the next step?”
2010: Angle: “UN has been captured by the far left and has become ineffective and costly. The UN continually threatens US sovereignty, with endless rhetoric and treaties and it has not become the umpire on fraudulent science, such as global warming. The United States needs to withdraw from the United Nations and work solely with America’s willing allies.” (From her campaign website)
2010: Angle: “I keep hearing about Muslims wanting to take over the United States.” and “On a TV program just last night, I saw that they are taking over a city in Michigan and the residents of the city, they want them out. They want them out. So, I want to hear your thoughts about that.”
2010: Angle: “My thoughts are these, first of all, Dearborn, Michigan, and Frankford, Texas are on American soil, and under constitutional law. Not Sharia law. And I don’t know how that happened in the United States.”
2010: Angle: “I believe that there’s not sound science to back that up.” (Talking about global warming.)
2010: Angle: “I took a little criticism for it yesterday based off that I should find something good in that bill to save and there was nothing good in this law.” (Regarding the PPACA (HCR) bill of 2010.)
2010: Angle: “Right now, we say in a traditional home one parent stays home with the children and the other provides the financial support for that family. That is the acceptable and right thing to do.”
2010: Angle: “I was just saying that we are over regulating some of our industries and of course the oil and petroleum industry is one of those that we’ve been over regulating and that’s what has kept us dependent upon foreign oil and of course that dependence gets us into big trouble overseas and we need to not have that dependence, we need to come back and explore our domestic resources and take the regulation off.”
Other miscellaneous from Sharron Angle:
- She tried to pass legislation (Assembly Bill 580 of the 1999 Nevada Legislature) which would have required doctors to tell women seeking abortions that there was a “scientifically reported link between an induced abortion and an increased risk of developing breast cancer later in life”
- She favors the termination of the Energy Department and the EPA
- She favors the termination of much of the IRS tax code
- She favors eliminating Social Security
- She favors the complete elimination of the National Endowment for the Arts
- She equates the Holocaust with 9/11
- She believes that American cities have been taken over by militant terrorist organizations who are running under Sharia law
- She does not believe the Constitution mandates the separation of church and state
- She voted against fluoridating drinking water
- She believes rape and incest are part of God’s plan
- She wants to put nuclear plants inside Yucca Mountain
- She voted against enforcement of restraining orders from other states
Here’s the list of tweets from the NYC trip I took with Rochelle to see Stacy over the weekend.
Friday September 24, 2010
- New York later TODAY! #Dexter – TWO – DAYS! 10:51 AM EST
- We’re on our way to #NYC! 6:46 PM EST
- So ready to get off the bus. Damn traffic. Should be there in a half hour or so. #NYC 9:36 PM EST
- We’re at a great sushi place! #NYC 10:20 PM EST
- Stacy just informed me that we’re at Time Square! 10:51 PM EST
- I didn’t take a picture of the sushi! #EpicFail 11:13 PM EST
Saturday September 25, 2010
- Woke up this morning, checked Facebook for the great news… Tricia’s in labor! Congrats, Tricia and Travis! Love you both! 10:55 AM EST
- Bought a fun trip card for all day in #NYC. Had someone comment on my #Ravens cap saying get a #Jets cap. 2:13 PM EST
- Enjoying a fruit cup and lemonade in Central Park. #NYC 3:38 PM EST
- Talking about ONE MORE DAY #DEXTER!!! 4:11 PM EST
- Keep checking #FB for Tricia updates. She’s having a C section. Good luck, Tricia. Love you! 4:45 PM EST
- Back to Stacy’s place for a snack. 7:16 PM EST
- Getting beer and liquor for tonight. 7:32 PM EST
- Cecelia Rose has been born! Congratulations Tricia and Travis! You’re going to be great parents! 7:56 PM EST
- Having dinner and chilling. Quaint little place. Getting fish and chips. #FTW #NYC 9:31 PM EST
- Checked out a bookstore. Got a good book and sudoku for the ride home tomorrow. #NYC 10:36 PM EST
Sunday September 26, 2010
- Leaving #NYC. #Dexter in less than 11 hours! 10:14 AM EST
- In #DC, almost to Union Station. 2:20 PM EST
- Finally almost home. Red line closed before our stop. #MWAFail 3:31 PM EST
The Republicans released their “Pledge to America” if they regain control of Congress later this year. It’s full of the same old same old rhetoric you’d expect from the selfish GOP, such as extending the Bush tax cuts. It omits how it’s going to pay for them as well as what they plan to do about entitlement programs (like Medicare and Social Security). They also want to overturn the Patient Protection & Affordable Care Act (health care reform) the Dems passed earlier this year. Furthermore, they want to put an end to the stimulus.
I just have to wonder, when HCR starts going into effect and the American people FINALLY see the good it will do, will the GOP jump on the bandwagon like most of them did with the stimulus? Or with the auto bailout?
I’d also like to know who’s buying Newt Gingrich’s recent comments? Seriously, is that guy off his rocker or what?
What scares me is that people actually listen to and believe it. I know a few of them myself. They’re anti-Muslim, far right conservatives who actually buy into these scare tactics. They preach that Muslims are going to take over our country, that we’re beginning to implement Sharia Law, they think Obama wants socialism, they think this country to be founded on Christian beliefs, and they actually believe Fox News to be factual.
And they think I’m wrong when I dispute their “facts”!
I try to see the other side of things, but I can’t even wrap my mind around it… To think that our country is in serious jeopardy and ready to be taken over. Who do these people really want their country back from? Last I checked, we as AMERICANS still had it.
I actually had one guy tell me to hell with the Bill Of Rights if it stops Muslims from building a Mosque near Ground Zero. What are some people in this country becoming and when will they stop? What could be next? Showing up to rally’s wearing KKK clothing?
I asked Bing why it wasn’t XHTML 1.0 compliant and this is what it said:
Sounds like what you’d expect from a search engine made by Microsoft. Begs the question of how Bing is any better than Google or Yahoo? FAIL.
Here’s who I think will go to the playoffs in 2010:
AFC:
New York Jets
Baltimore Ravens
Indianapolis Colts
Denver Broncos
New England Patriots
Houston Texans
NFC:
Dallas Cowboys
Minnesota Vikings
New Orleans Saints
San Francisco 49ers
Green Bay Packers
Washington Redskins
Yeah, that’s right, I said it. Skins, baby! The AFC I think is still a lot more powerful than the NFC. It’s pretty hard picking who’ll go from the AFC. I think the Texans have a good shot this year. The Colts are getting older. I could see the Bengals going, too, as a wild card. The NFC is so scrambled right now. I wouldn’t put the Vikings on there if Favre didn’t come back. I’d keep an eye on the Falcons, too. Cardinals are out since Weirner retired. San Francisco might have a good shot.
How I did in 2009:
AFC: 2/6
NFC: 4/6
| Half Of Heart That Wants To Love |
Half Of Heart That Doesn’t Want To Love |
- Got a grip on the situation
- Got a right mind to tell you that I can’t keep loving you with half of my heart
- Got you
- A shot gun wedding to a bride with a paper ring
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- Takes time
- Got a real good imagination
- Got a right mind to tell you that half of my heart won’t do
- The part of a man who’s never truly loved anything
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I’ve been giving a lot of thought to my dog, Wiki. I was hesitant about getting a dog with no tail. His tail was viciously chopped off when he was a puppy for hunting purposes, I’m sure. I’ve been watching his tail, hoping one day it could grow back but they don’t.
According to Wikipedia (not my dog, the online encyclopedia of which Wiki was named), they do it so the dogs don’t get hurt during hunting, to prevent rabies, and to make them faster. I just think it’s a cruel practice that should be made illegal.
Almost ALL first world countries ban it with some exceptions. A lot of other countries that you would think wouldn’t care also ban it. However, it’s legal in the United States. We’re in the same group as Afghanistan, Argentina, Egypt, Mexico, Russia, Malaysia, etc. I have been wanting to blog about what’s wrong with America. Docking is definitely on there now.
It’s getting old hearing all these people complain about the Mosque they’re building TWO BLOCKS AWAY from where the WTC used to be.
The fact is that it’s protected under the first amendment. However, that won’t get through these people’s minds. It’s protected, there’s no debating it, no matter what people say or do.
The closest thing people tried to stop it was to get the building declared a landmark. The landmark commission voted 9-0 that the building is NOT a landmark even though debris from the WTC touched it. Most the buildings in NYC would then have to be declared landmarks if that was so.
It’s on private property, it will be private church, how can government try to stop it? It’s protected under the first amendment, there’s no debate. Also, there’s separation of church and state which some people seem to forget.
It baffles my mind, it’s so hypocritical to rant and rave “PATRIOTS, PROTECT OUR COUNTRY, FREEDOM ISN’T FREE, THE TERRORISTS WANT TO TAKE AWAY OUR FREEDOMS… yada yada yada.” Yet, they’re protesting to take away the freedoms of other people? I don’t get it. They need to listen to themselves. What freedoms will we have if we keep taking them away, one by one, in the name of terrorism?
And some people forget that some Muslims died on 9/11, too. To cave on this would hand the terrorists a victory. They would have disrupted those people’s freedom to speech and religion. Are we supposed to treat Muslims different than everyone else? I don’t think so. That’s NOT what this country is about.
As some of you know, I found another job. Today is my last day with a company who I’ve been with since August 2006. My first real experience job. My first job out of college. A company who actually gave me a chance.
It’s been great for the most part, I do have to say. I’ve learned a lot. I am who I am today because of them. Working with a small business has given me the opportunity to work in a lot of areas, which I like. I think I’m a well rounded person.
I’m leaving behind a few friends, which I don’t like to do. However, I’ve seen quite a few friends leave. Hopefully we will all keep in touch. This company has changed so much since I started here.
I’m trading in my scooter for my Prius and a longer commute and a smaller company. I know I will do well there just as I have here.
I figured out that I’ve been spending four years at a time at places:
- Four years at high school (Broadneck)
- Four years at college (Frostburg)
- Four years at this job
Twelve years of my life in only three places.
I can’t help but feel so happy and so sad at the same time. It’s kinda surprising, I’m not as emotional as I thought. I haven’t cried here yet. I cried at home but not here. I guess, when I’m here, it doesn’t feel like it’s hit yet. I cleaned out my stuff. I took it home yesterday. I’m riding my scooter for the last time here, at least as a full time employee.
A new journey awaits, a new chapter in my life.
