Wednesday, May 3, 2006
Cause Of The Problem
I was at a loss for words after seeing this video. I felt encroached upon and put down by the remarks that this woman made. Take a look for yourself....
What Are They Doing? Part II
It's finaly started to happen. Some schools are starting to serve only diet soda's, "nutritious juices", and low-fat milk.
I'm glad that I'm not a student anymore. I also feel sorry for these kids. They only get bitter, unsweetened junk.
My beef with this whole issue lies in the fact that legislators, school administrators, and advocacy groups are just trying fix a problem that is not theirs to fix. Parents are at fault for not teaching children self control. It should be up to the parents to decide whether or not their chilren can drink caffinated, sugarfied high calory crap. On the other side of the road, it should be the school district to decide what they want to put in their school vending machines to make money.
Also, to say that only drinking diet soda, which does not have any calories, will not make you fat, is also untrue. Go into a gas station "kwik mart" and watch who buy diet soda. You'll observe that whoever buys a diet soda, they also by 2 "milkyways" and a "three musketeer". Diet soda gives the drinker the impression that they are on some kind of diet, so sometimes you can "reward" yourself with the stuff that does make you fat.
Just leave the kids and their parents to decide what they can and cannot eat.
I'm glad that I'm not a student anymore. I also feel sorry for these kids. They only get bitter, unsweetened junk.
My beef with this whole issue lies in the fact that legislators, school administrators, and advocacy groups are just trying fix a problem that is not theirs to fix. Parents are at fault for not teaching children self control. It should be up to the parents to decide whether or not their chilren can drink caffinated, sugarfied high calory crap. On the other side of the road, it should be the school district to decide what they want to put in their school vending machines to make money.
Also, to say that only drinking diet soda, which does not have any calories, will not make you fat, is also untrue. Go into a gas station "kwik mart" and watch who buy diet soda. You'll observe that whoever buys a diet soda, they also by 2 "milkyways" and a "three musketeer". Diet soda gives the drinker the impression that they are on some kind of diet, so sometimes you can "reward" yourself with the stuff that does make you fat.
Just leave the kids and their parents to decide what they can and cannot eat.
Tuesday, May 2, 2006
A History Lesson
As most people, I've been following this whole imagration issue, and there is one thing that makes me more angry than anything else with this issue, and that is claims that the United States stole the land that we have now from Mexico. Not true.
First of all, the land in question was disputed between the U.S., and Spain. Mexico had no legitimate claims on the land. Second of all, to claim that we invaded is also a lie, because any and all were invited into Texas, because the Mexican government could not get anyone to live there.
Texans decided to secede from Mexico after the Mexican government adopted a new constitution that the invited North-American settlers did not want to live under. So, in 1836, Texas became a nation with the signing of their own Declartion of Independence. Thereafter, Texas won it's independence in subsequent battles, most notably the Battle of San Jacinto.
Ten years later, in 1845, Texas was annexed to the U.S., which sent Mexican officials into a furor, claiming that Texas was just a rebel province. According to America's "Manifest Destiny" policy, President Polk sent an ambasader to Mexico to offer $30 million dollars for the land. Mexico refused, and Polk sent an army to the border where they built a fort on the Rio Grande to presure Mexico into taking the deal. They did not take the deal and crossed the Rio Grande and attacked U.S. forces. The rest is history.
I've just proved that 1) America did not attack Mexico and 2) We offered a peaceful means to an end.
All those who repeat the "Americans attacked and stole Mexico" rhetoric is full of it.
Source- WikiPedia
First of all, the land in question was disputed between the U.S., and Spain. Mexico had no legitimate claims on the land. Second of all, to claim that we invaded is also a lie, because any and all were invited into Texas, because the Mexican government could not get anyone to live there.
Texans decided to secede from Mexico after the Mexican government adopted a new constitution that the invited North-American settlers did not want to live under. So, in 1836, Texas became a nation with the signing of their own Declartion of Independence. Thereafter, Texas won it's independence in subsequent battles, most notably the Battle of San Jacinto.
Ten years later, in 1845, Texas was annexed to the U.S., which sent Mexican officials into a furor, claiming that Texas was just a rebel province. According to America's "Manifest Destiny" policy, President Polk sent an ambasader to Mexico to offer $30 million dollars for the land. Mexico refused, and Polk sent an army to the border where they built a fort on the Rio Grande to presure Mexico into taking the deal. They did not take the deal and crossed the Rio Grande and attacked U.S. forces. The rest is history.
I've just proved that 1) America did not attack Mexico and 2) We offered a peaceful means to an end.
All those who repeat the "Americans attacked and stole Mexico" rhetoric is full of it.
Source- WikiPedia
Man Found Glued To Toilet In Wal-Mart
Not kidding. At a Wal-Mart in Salisbury, Md., an employee of the store found a man glued to the toilet in the store bathroom. Apparently the man was banging his fists on the stall when the employee found him.
Another Selfish Politician
A citycouncilman in a city here in Utah is trying to put a tax on cyclists who use roads. I know what your thinking: This guy is a nutjob who is just in it for the money, or trying to reduce the number of "anoyances" on the road, or you whole-heartedly agree with him.
I'm of the former opinion; the guy is selfish, greedy, only working for his own interests and not for the interests of his city. First of all, how can you impliment that kind of tax? You tell me. Second, are we gonna tax little kids because they just wanted a bike for their birthday? Besides, it's already in the books that a bycicle is a part of traffic.
The cyclists in the article are right, too. It can lessen the traffic, and make it easier to travel durring rush hour.
So, taxing cyclists; stupid.
I'm of the former opinion; the guy is selfish, greedy, only working for his own interests and not for the interests of his city. First of all, how can you impliment that kind of tax? You tell me. Second, are we gonna tax little kids because they just wanted a bike for their birthday? Besides, it's already in the books that a bycicle is a part of traffic.
The cyclists in the article are right, too. It can lessen the traffic, and make it easier to travel durring rush hour.
So, taxing cyclists; stupid.
Space Shuttle Goes Back To Space
NASA announced that the shuttle is going back to space in July, although concerns about the foam insulating surround the mission. NASA has done wind-tests, and after some modifications, have determined the Space Shuttle is space worthy. NASA does say though, that similar modifications will occur on subsiquent missions, until the program is scraped in 2010, when the IFF is finished.
Why Can't Everybody do this
Rhode Island is setting up a state-wide wireless computer network. That is just plain cool. But, this being such a big undertaking, even though the state is not larger than L.A.,the system will be full of bugs for months after they finish setting it up. Most people will not want use the wi-fi network because of the accross-the-board unrelyability. I do have some experience with wireless internet providers, having once baught service from one; the service sucked.
If I was from Rhode Island, I'd be hoping that whoever is setting up this system knows what they are doing.
If I was from Rhode Island, I'd be hoping that whoever is setting up this system knows what they are doing.
Monday, May 1, 2006
Ah, Well.....
I guess I can give my version of events, pertaining to the previous post.
Well, you might have read about my local county party's nominating convention which I attended as a delegate, selected to represent my precinct in choosing our local state house reps., county councilmen, and county-wide officers. It made for an interesting day.
Registration started at 8 am, so a friend, also a delegate, came and picked me up at about a quarter to; so we got going. We ended up going down the wrong street. So my friend decided to have the oil in his car toped off since there was extra time, so we went to jiffy lube. The guys at juffy lube told us that the fan was loose;it was missing two bolts. They told us to go to Checker auto parts to get some bolts. We just went to a Les Schwab tire store, and they fixed up the problem for free. We also found out at the same Les Schwab that we were on the right street, but we just didn't go far enough east. So, we were on our way to the convention.
Once we rolled into the parking lot, it was crowded, like a popular sports event. Signs were everywhere, indocterinated youth handing out fliers and wearing campaign tee-shirts. I'll tell you right now, after leaving the parking lot, I could not get anywhere without having to wait in a line, being told by old people to hold my horses, and that "we are all going to the same place", when in fact we are not.
When we got onto the convention floor, it was a sea of booths. Yep, not a convention without a booth. The booth section is where the biggest crowds were, jockeying for free swag from their favorite candidate. I got a tee-shirt, a hat, a number of pins(a given), a free book(actually a good read) and a bag(could be construed as a man-purse).
At 9am, the convention came to order. We had a number of reports before we got to the buisness of choosing our candidates. To make a long story short, the chairman had to start telling jokes to take up some time while waiting for a guy who was supposed to make a report.
Next was caucas breakouts, which is where the different state legislative and Senate district candidates are chosen. My legislative district was Legislative district 42. If you read the article in the previous post, you would remember that blurb about Jim Bird pushing incumbent Peggy Wallace into a primary election. This was amazing because Jim Bird had no booth at the convention, had almost no campaign treasury(money out of his own pocket), and no sponsers, whereas Wallace had the support of other current state legislators(duh, they watch eachother's backs, don't they), sponsers, indocterinated youth, ect. Jim Bird pushed the primary vote with a straight 50%-50% vote(28-28). So I was pleased with that(If I didn't say it before, or you hadn't figured it out, I support Bird).
Now we've got a free hour to peruse the booths to meet some candidates, take free stuff, and eat before we had to go and vote for our local county council district candidate. So we got back in time for that vote, but decided to go get drinks durring the speeches because we both made up our minds about that race. We got back to the county council district vote at the tail end of voting, but had no trouble making it to place our ballots.
Next was county-wide elections, which meant the whole convention got back together for that vote. As I was listening to the speaches, I thought, "this won't change my opinion at all"; that was untill the challenger to the county sheriff position gave his speech. He was talking, I mean yelling, like he was a WWE anouncer; not to mention all he had to say was crap about his incumbent oponent. I was a little put off by that one. I still voted for him(the incumbent has been in office for 16 years and seems to be waisting money).
After that, we were tying up some loose ends, passed a couple of resolutions, when out of the blue, some buy stands up, wants to be recognized, eventualy is, and makes a "movement"(you don't make a "movement" in Roberts Rules of Order, you make motions) to have some state candidates(means running for U.S. congress or senate) who were present. This was a cheap attemp to gain unwarented favoritism for the candidates to be nominated for the party at the state nominating convention, where state candidates are to be elected. My opinion, which I know most of the convention held, is that speeches by state candidates belong at the state convention. If you read the article in my previous post, you would know all about this.
The Chairman finaly dug us out of that mess, and we finally got to leave.
Well, you might have read about my local county party's nominating convention which I attended as a delegate, selected to represent my precinct in choosing our local state house reps., county councilmen, and county-wide officers. It made for an interesting day.
Registration started at 8 am, so a friend, also a delegate, came and picked me up at about a quarter to; so we got going. We ended up going down the wrong street. So my friend decided to have the oil in his car toped off since there was extra time, so we went to jiffy lube. The guys at juffy lube told us that the fan was loose;it was missing two bolts. They told us to go to Checker auto parts to get some bolts. We just went to a Les Schwab tire store, and they fixed up the problem for free. We also found out at the same Les Schwab that we were on the right street, but we just didn't go far enough east. So, we were on our way to the convention.
Once we rolled into the parking lot, it was crowded, like a popular sports event. Signs were everywhere, indocterinated youth handing out fliers and wearing campaign tee-shirts. I'll tell you right now, after leaving the parking lot, I could not get anywhere without having to wait in a line, being told by old people to hold my horses, and that "we are all going to the same place", when in fact we are not.
When we got onto the convention floor, it was a sea of booths. Yep, not a convention without a booth. The booth section is where the biggest crowds were, jockeying for free swag from their favorite candidate. I got a tee-shirt, a hat, a number of pins(a given), a free book(actually a good read) and a bag(could be construed as a man-purse).
At 9am, the convention came to order. We had a number of reports before we got to the buisness of choosing our candidates. To make a long story short, the chairman had to start telling jokes to take up some time while waiting for a guy who was supposed to make a report.
Next was caucas breakouts, which is where the different state legislative and Senate district candidates are chosen. My legislative district was Legislative district 42. If you read the article in the previous post, you would remember that blurb about Jim Bird pushing incumbent Peggy Wallace into a primary election. This was amazing because Jim Bird had no booth at the convention, had almost no campaign treasury(money out of his own pocket), and no sponsers, whereas Wallace had the support of other current state legislators(duh, they watch eachother's backs, don't they), sponsers, indocterinated youth, ect. Jim Bird pushed the primary vote with a straight 50%-50% vote(28-28). So I was pleased with that(If I didn't say it before, or you hadn't figured it out, I support Bird).
Now we've got a free hour to peruse the booths to meet some candidates, take free stuff, and eat before we had to go and vote for our local county council district candidate. So we got back in time for that vote, but decided to go get drinks durring the speeches because we both made up our minds about that race. We got back to the county council district vote at the tail end of voting, but had no trouble making it to place our ballots.
Next was county-wide elections, which meant the whole convention got back together for that vote. As I was listening to the speaches, I thought, "this won't change my opinion at all"; that was untill the challenger to the county sheriff position gave his speech. He was talking, I mean yelling, like he was a WWE anouncer; not to mention all he had to say was crap about his incumbent oponent. I was a little put off by that one. I still voted for him(the incumbent has been in office for 16 years and seems to be waisting money).
After that, we were tying up some loose ends, passed a couple of resolutions, when out of the blue, some buy stands up, wants to be recognized, eventualy is, and makes a "movement"(you don't make a "movement" in Roberts Rules of Order, you make motions) to have some state candidates(means running for U.S. congress or senate) who were present. This was a cheap attemp to gain unwarented favoritism for the candidates to be nominated for the party at the state nominating convention, where state candidates are to be elected. My opinion, which I know most of the convention held, is that speeches by state candidates belong at the state convention. If you read the article in my previous post, you would know all about this.
The Chairman finaly dug us out of that mess, and we finally got to leave.
Sunday, April 30, 2006
An Eventful Day
As I promised, although later than promised, is the apended post.
I had the distinct privalige of serving as a delegate to my local county party nominating convention. But I'm not going to go into a huge post when a newspaper article can give all the detail that you might want.
I had the distinct privalige of serving as a delegate to my local county party nominating convention. But I'm not going to go into a huge post when a newspaper article can give all the detail that you might want.
Friday, April 28, 2006
Interesting, Again.....
I just read an article about 207 new citizen sworn in yesterday. A big congradulations to them! But read what one new citizen had to say about the illegals in this country.
Cool
Imagine that, being able to turn a red paperclip into a house. Amazing!
You may have heard of this, but it's just so cool I had to post it.
You may have heard of this, but it's just so cool I had to post it.
What Are They Doing?
U.S. lawmakers taking part in a protest outside the Sudanese embasy are arested for disorderly conduct.
I got some questions about this.
Why are they protesting? Why should they care about another country's affairs?
First of all, it seems to me that these congressman do not care very much about their own country than about how this country looks to other nations. And to answer the first question, I do not have a problem with them protesting, but to be arrested on disorderly conduct is unbecoming of a U.S. congressperson and such an offence should be punished with impeachment. It's all in the constitution if you want to read it.
I got some questions about this.
Why are they protesting? Why should they care about another country's affairs?
First of all, it seems to me that these congressman do not care very much about their own country than about how this country looks to other nations. And to answer the first question, I do not have a problem with them protesting, but to be arrested on disorderly conduct is unbecoming of a U.S. congressperson and such an offence should be punished with impeachment. It's all in the constitution if you want to read it.
Ubsured, No Respect
The "Star-Spangled Banner" with spanish lyrics. I don't know what to say, other than legal citizens of the United States cherish that song, which is an American song, our National Anthem no less, and illegal aliens and those that support them are stealing it, with intention to stir people up. They don't care how we get stired up, but it is a blatant attempt to make people angry, in my opinion. Isn't it enough that illegals(<key phrase), believe that they have the same rights as real, law abiding citizens? I guess not.
Thursday, April 27, 2006
Crazy Stuff
Yesterday, a woman drove her SUV through a building, no less, allegedly to try to kill her husband. Aparently(duh...), the couple is going through a divorce. You can read more about it here.
Typical divorce for today......
Typical divorce for today......
Wednesday, April 26, 2006
English Language Hits 1 Billion Words
Aparently, if you spell something wrong, hear or say something wrong, or just make something up, you might get a "real" word or phrase in the dictionary. Check out this article to read more.
'"Buck naked" increasingly has evolved to "butt naked."'
^^^^That just annoys me to no end, how people take a cherished phrase and mangle it, though they may do unwittingly. But nontheless, they should stand corrected, and whoever is puting in made-up phrases in the dictionary should go back and take them out of later editions.
Tuesday, April 25, 2006
My Team Got Shafted
Let me explain my choice of words:
My favorite team in the NBA, the Jazz, who didn't make the playoffs, actually had a better record than two or three teams from the eastern conference that did make the playoffs. How does this happen? and how do we remedy this problem?
To anwser question the first: The eastern conference teams SUCK. The best team's records' in the easten conference automaticaly make the rest of the conference look better than they actually are.
To answer question the second: Replace all the eastern conference teams who's records are worse than that of some other western conference teams with said western conference teams.
If what I have just said is done, every team gets a fair shot at the NBA title.
P.S., forgive the excessive use of the wordconference.
My favorite team in the NBA, the Jazz, who didn't make the playoffs, actually had a better record than two or three teams from the eastern conference that did make the playoffs. How does this happen? and how do we remedy this problem?
To anwser question the first: The eastern conference teams SUCK. The best team's records' in the easten conference automaticaly make the rest of the conference look better than they actually are.
To answer question the second: Replace all the eastern conference teams who's records are worse than that of some other western conference teams with said western conference teams.
If what I have just said is done, every team gets a fair shot at the NBA title.
P.S., forgive the excessive use of the word
Another Day....
Yep. Just another day. School, work, and everything else in between.
Lets talk about the 'in between' then, shall we?
I'm a StarWars enthusias, or "geek", if you will. So naturally this means that I am somewhat of a collector of memorabilia, or "toys". But recently, I've been particularly involved in finding and pricing particular "items".
So there you go: a day in the life......
Lets talk about the 'in between' then, shall we?
I'm a StarWars enthusias, or "geek", if you will. So naturally this means that I am somewhat of a collector of memorabilia, or "toys". But recently, I've been particularly involved in finding and pricing particular "items".
So there you go: a day in the life......
Monday, April 24, 2006
The Begining
We are at the begining of what I hope will be a successful blog. And by successful I mean read by more than three different people a week.
I hope you enjoy satire, or are intrigued by the way things look through my metaphorical eyes, because that is the way I write, biased and sarcastic; well sometimes sarcastic. I hope you will be able to tell the difference between serious and "trying to write a joke". Maybe I should make those into categories.....
I hope you enjoy satire, or are intrigued by the way things look through my metaphorical eyes, because that is the way I write, biased and sarcastic; well sometimes sarcastic. I hope you will be able to tell the difference between serious and "trying to write a joke". Maybe I should make those into categories.....
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