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.

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

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.

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.

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.