The Merry-Go-Round

Here we go again. Our country's economy stinks like the hole cover on grampa's outhouse and our elected officials would rather point fingers than work for answers. Obama says it's Bush's policies and McCain says it's the overregulation by the Democrats. Our politicians are more worried about publicizing failures of their opposition than they are about fixing our country.

I plan to live for a long time. When I die at the ripe old age of 96 I want to be shot by a jealous husband. That's over 40 more years and 10 more presidential elections and in that time I don't believe I will ever see our countries leaders care about their constituants more than their urgency for re-election.

I hate political blogs that don't say anything, but nobody reads this so who cares.

A Little NASCAR

ESPN came up with a pretty good article about Chaseology and how if today's Chase were started when the modern era of NASCAR started and you applied toay's 12 man Chase scoring how it affect the past championships. It's actually good, but for a guy like me that has no life, I can take it one step further. The only good news is Richard Petty would have won his 7 championships. Here's my results of ESPN's Chaseology.

Driver	ESPN Chase	Actual
Alan Kulwicki	0	1
Bobby Allison	0	1
Matt Kenseth	0	1
Terry Labonte	0	2
Bill Elliott	1	1
Dale Jarrett	1	1
Kyle Petty	1	0
Sterling Marlin	1	0
Tony Stewart	1	2
Richard Petty	2	2
Bobby Labonte	2	1
Harry Gant	2	0
Jeff Gordon	2	4
Kurt Bush	2	1
Rusty Wallace	2	1
Jimmie Johnson	3	2
Cale Yarborough	4	3
Darrell Waltrip	4	3
Dale Earnhardt	5	7

Ten Questions and Then Some

1. If you’re black and vote for Obama, are you a racist?
2. If you’re white and do not vote for Obama, are you a racist?
3. If you're male and do not vote for Palin are you a sexist?
4. Will Palin get the female vote?
5. Will Palin get the blue collar vote?
6. Will Palin get the Hillary vote?
7. Is it an Obama/Palin race?
8. Is it “Change We Believe” or is it “Change We Need”?
9. Is it a completely different race now that Palin had entered?
10. Where are the questions about McCain?

After watching some pundits on Sunday Morning it seemed ABC questioned over 80% of the time about McCain/Palin. While they didn’t really praise Obama outright, they did get tough on the Republicans and blew over Obama. To hear these professionals mouthpieces, Obama is all honor, no negativity and on the up and up. McCain is all politics, no honor and the only good thing he did was ask Palin to be his running mate to take his name out of the spotlight.

What I don’t understand is every argument made against McCain can be made against Obama. Sure you can change name McCain to Obama without a stretch and reach the same results. Obama has not run a saintly campaign either. How can one campaign run negative ads and still have what is called an honorable campaign and the other side does the same and has a political campaign? Fox has the slogan “Fair and Balanced” but when they are fair they are straining to be balanced. It is not “Fair and Balanced” when it is not fair for a balanced amount of time.

I would like to hear the issues, not somebody with a microphone surgically implanted in their molars give their interpretation of how a candidate’s stance will affect the reporter’s agenda. When will a news network (or at least reporters) replace agendas with credibility and accountability? News networks have gone from reporting the election to editorializing the election.

Expect next week for all candidates to be where Ike did damage. Expect to hear the Republicans talk about how our tax dollars are working, or the Democrats talk about who the Republicans are failing or how the only reason it is working is because the Democrats forced the Republicans to make it work. Billions of dollars are going to be promised to Texas. Can’t this be handled like the flooding In the Midwest? No it can’t. The people of the Midwest don’t expect it and the poorer people of Texas will push this to be their major election issue.

It's Getting Stupid Now

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Stupidity has taken over the internet. More people are giving their idiotic viewpoints on Palin and Obama or what we call the presidential election than ever in our history. This election will be won on peoples viewpoint on religion, gender and race. Or will it be their disdain for these?

I usually enjoy Bill Maher but his ultra liberal and his contempt for any religion is unbearable. Huffington Post and Daily Kos hatred of conservatives rival Mahers, but are a close 2nd. The same can be said about the conservative sites like Little Green Footballs and others over the same dribble but with liberal targets.

The 2004 election was the most tainted in the US history. I think we have not had an election were the issues have been real since the 1992 election between Bush and Clinton. The 96 election did not have to have issues. The Republican party never gave the Democrats a race, never gave Clinton an opponent. 2000 election was before the internet caught on. The Democrats and the Rupublican neither put a canidate that was strong. The Democrats lost it because the Clinton, the President people are taughting as the best President in the history of the great United States was so weak that nobody would associate with him.

When we look back at the 04 election, we will compare it to a training course for pre-schoolers. The 2008 pundints are taking what they learned in 04 and being fruitful and multiplying. I get e-mail about Obama that is so filled with lies you expect Barrack to go down on one knee and start singing 'Mammy'. Before long I'm sure I will be getting e-mails about how he is full of syphulus and will be the downfall of our way of life. I'm sure the same is going on about Palin. She's a woman and that she's the answer to Hillary. Just click on any of the links above. It's sickening.

The only new site I can read is Drudge. Yes it has a conservative slant but it's just news links. You can read anything on this site and anything between the lines.

Ask yourself one thing. Since the constitution does not guarantee the right that everybody is equal, just that everybody has the equal rights, who will interpret that the best?

I just hope that I have a life in 2012 and can escape from all this.

Goodbye Cleatus

Jerry Reed
Born Jerry Reed Hubbard
3/20/37 ~ 9/2/08
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When You're Hot, You're Hot

Politics As Normal

So Jimmy Carter says McCain is milking his POW experience. This is not going to be pro-McCain, nor is it against Obama. This is about Carter and his legacy.

Carter was the first person I ever voted for as president. The first presidential election that I reached of age. I was told by a friend that if I were a christian I would have to vote for Carter. I voted for Carter, partly for that and partly against Ford and what he represented. What Ford represented in my eyes then has changed in my eyes now. All the anti-Vietnam protests were aimed at Nixon and his administration. How could Ford, who was part of the Nixon/Agnew/Ford machine, not be part of the problem with all the corruption? Plus Ford was never elected. Enough on that. Whomever was in the White House at that had to be part of the problem. Not the solution.

What was Jimmy's legacy?

• The gas/oil shortage in 1977
• He gave back the Panama Canal
• The Iranian Hostage crisis (which came to an end as soon as a real President came into office)
• The failed hostage rescue
  
• The 1980 Summer Olympic Boycott
• Billy Carter

This makes Jimmy the worst President ever. Bush is nowhere close. Either Bush.

The legacy that we now choose as his is an ex-President that is involved in Habitats for Humanity but he is trying hard to embrace another, the open arm acceptance of terrorist like Chavez or the Palestinian cause. Jimmy's legacy is "I NEVER MET A TERRORIST I DIDN'T LIKE!'

I'm not a writer, so I don't know how to close this without getting personal, but this man's hatred of a party will stop at no bounds, including the support of terrorist, to make his point.

As for the election, I'm voting for Palin cause she's a babe.

Thursday Night Football and the Olympics

I sit here watching the Galaxy play Chivas USA, and I smile as Donavan gets a good feed and sinks a goal. I've just started watching soccer, or as the world calls it football, this year and I really like it. The players seem to have a pride in their sport that you see when you watch college football (pigskin). I like the Galaxy but choose the Red Bull in a attempt to drum up some rivalry at work. I still don't have the rules down yet, like when a goally can touch the ball with his hands. Thats another story. Galaxy is storming the goal in the first 15 minutes. No manager, he got fired. No GM, he got fired. This is the best I've seen them play this year.

Sunday night I watched along with the rest of the world via tape delay the US Mens Relay 4 X 100 team tear France a new one. Shut them up and I love shutting cockiness down. Sometimes having self assurance is one thing but France or Bernard accepted the gold metal before the race. I will have to give France respect though. Being a dumb redneck that the only thing I know about swimming is chasing down water skis after being so drunk I couldn't ski, I and millions of Americans were insulted to hear Bernard's brash statement, but after hearing the announcers give France the goal before the race I had to humble myself. Then Jason Lezak just overtook Bernard. Anyway, sorry to go on about stuff that the world already knows. Alain Bernard redeemed himself later in the men's 100-meter freestyle. Lezak won the bronze.

NBC's Olympic coverage would get an 'A' if I lived back east, but since I live on the left coast, they get a 'D'. Since when does California not rate getting life coverage of the Olympics. NBC sucks for that alone. Network TV sucks in California anyway. If they had it together they would start their tape delayed 'Prime Time' at 7:00 instead of 8:00.

Time Warner got it together here in the desert by adding USA to their HD lineup. Olympic coverage is on up to 6 HD channels now. The Friday night opening ceremony was unreal. Who cares if the footprints were fake. I'm not a pro at picking out CG stuff like that, but anybody could tell that was fake. Fireworks are boring on TV anyway. The Millie Vanillie part sucked though. I guess China felt the world had to see a pretty little girl would be the only way Euro/Americans would watch and shafted a little bucktoothed girl from being on TV. Whoever made that decision should spend the rest of their working life manning a gun station in the freezing pacific someplace. That little girl could sing!

Enough rambling for tonight.

Afternote. The Galaxy came back in stoppage time and tied the game at 2-2. Beckham is awesome. It's not that he outplays everybody but it is that he does everything so effortlessly.

Megyn Kelly, Big Tobacco and Strange

I was just ready a blog I like, The War on Big Tobacco, where BT makes a comment about Megyn Kelly. I have no idea who this is, I'm not a news person. So I googled her. She's a Fox news talent that is a beauty queen. Probably anybody but me would already know that. I go to images to check her out, and use my PicLens for the pictures. There's a bunch of screencaps of her loaded on the wonderful world of the web and one of the screencaps has a title "Charges dropped against IL mom who left child in car for 3 min." How cruel of my mother. She did that to me once a week, if not more. Really, how is a kid supposed to learn about a car if he's not left alone at an A&P while his mom shopped for groceries. I learned that if you pressed lightly on the brakes and pushed the flashers in a little that the radio would come on. Probably didn't work on many cars other than a 69 Ford Galaxy 500 but it worked.

I live in the desert now and you can't do that, even if it's winter. And how could you lock a kid in the car with manual windows. Now it's all power windows. Life is strange. Life changes. Strange changes.

Nothing Can Be Said

Bernie Mac
born Bernard Jeffrey McCullough
10/5/57 ~ 8/9/08
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Lewis Grizzard & Damn Yankees

I've discovered as of late that I'm not much of a writer. I can put words together, but it's as if my brain has a tongue of it's own, just begging to be tripped over. I have no imagination, yet I yearn to be a writer half that of Lewis Grizzard. Grizzard, in my opinion, was one of the greatest writers of wit and humor there ever was. I would like to compare him to Will Rogers. A southern Samuel Clemmens.

When Grizzard died, a piece of Americana died that can never be replaced. If Lewis were alive today, he would be read more than anyone. Period. Lewis died over 14 years ago of heart disease leaving behind a wife of less than 2 years (just guessing from memory) three ex-wifes, countless empty bottles of booze. I can't remember his drink of choice, but I don't think he was much of a beer drinker. He also left behind a true love of the south. He didn't care much for what the south was changing to, but he had a love of the old south. Not the "blacks in the back of the bus" south, but things like peanuts in coke bottles, southern cooking and Georgia football. Heck, just the glass coke bottles.

He wrote books like "Shoot Low Boys - They're Riding Shetland Ponies" & "Elvis Is Dead and I Don't Feel So Good Myself". My favorite title was "Don't Bend Over In the Garden, Granny - You Know Them Taters Got Eyes". I don't remember a whole lot about his works and I did refer to Wikipedia for reference. I do remember reading a handful of books when I lived in Northern California. The last book he wrote, you could tell that he was writing his last. You could feel it in his words. Here is a guy that was a golfer. He loved his bourbon. He loved his strippers. I think he thought it was joke that he could make a living writing and living the way he lived.

What he did was make me happy and sad at the same time. His writing made me homesick. Yet when I read his books I was home. He could put me back in a small room in Alabama, sitting at the feet of my father watching Porter Wagner and Dolly Parton. He would take me back to catching lightning bugs and putting them in jars. Anyway, I digress. I said I yearn to be half the writer Lewis Grizzard was. He had millions of readers, I have one. Me. I

If a Yankee is a northerner and a Rebel is a southerner. If a DAMN Yankee is a northerner living in the south then was Lewis Grizzard a damn Rebel?

Professional Landscapers, Womp Rats & the Goat Man

Spring has sprung, fall has fell. Summers here and it's hot as hell.

You'd think after 20+ years in the desert a person would be used to the heat. Wind comes in and it's like a forced air heater blowing in your face. Moods are never good. People in a hurry like there's no tomorrow. People tailgate when you're in the slow lane.

Then there's the lawnmower races. With a speed limit of 50 in one of the most expensive towns in the country, gardeners, no Professional Landscapers drive side by side at pit road speed at Bristol. Side by side they go. If there was a God, he would give us proton torpedoes just for days like this.

"I used to bullseye womp rats in my T16 back home. They're not much bigger than gas cap on that John Deere." Vigor Skywalker would proclaim.

"It's a trap!" proclaims General Ackbar from the backseat. God I hate backseat Generals!

Real life spits in my face as I get caught at a red light behind another trailer. I can't even turn right on red because the lawn mower handles are sticking out too far.

Now my mind wanders again, to when I was 6 in the south when the Goat Man would take his goats down the highway. Now that was a sight. An old wagon, pulled by goats, surrounded by a herd of goats, led by an old man that resembled Professor Dumbledore, (how the heck does the spell checker get Wimbledon from Dumbledore?) Maybe the Professional Landscapers should sell postcards. The Goat Man sold postcards. The light finally changes to green and with me being third in line, I barely make the light before it changes red. I don't wanna run this light, they've got the camera up, just waiting to send you a $300 ticket, probably better than any Christmas cards I get with the family picture.

After hitting the next red light, I figure that while idling in my ol jalopy has probably cost me over $1.00 in petro. I zip onto the next band leader street and 5 minutes later I pull into work. Naturally there's already 3 Professional Landscapers trucks in the lot, taking 9 of 11 parking spaces. Hey, Professional Landscapers need free ice just like the next guy.