I'm back......................

Well after a nice weeks vacation away from home I am back.

I was up in the Florida panhandle for a few days. Stayed in a hotel right on the beach for $52.00 a night. It was nice to just hang out on the balcony and watch the waves roll in. Went on a roadtrip on took a decent amount of pictures. Will post those on Flickr.

Then I got to spend a few days in St. Augustine and watch my 16 year nephew and his baseball team play in a tournament. They got invited down from Ct. to play. Unfortunately they did not do well but it was great to see him play. I very rarely get to see him and have seen him play only a few times. It was good to see him outside of his regular environment. He is a good kid.

He is a big McCain fan and I got him to go into a Barak Obama campaign office in St. Augustine and get me some bumper stickers. It was fun too see him go in against his will. All for Uncle Mark. Yes I do have a picture of him going in.

What the hell did Flickr do to the home page. It has some decent new features. However the whole comment portion of the page is not how I like it. It needs some tweaking to say the least.

Times must be tough. My company is taking away our cell phones. They told us today that Wednesday morning we have to turn them in. Thanks for the huge lead time. I went and got and Alltel after work. Nothing fancy. Just a decent phone. I think I will join the ranks and get rid of my land line. No need for two phone numbers anymore.

Road Trip

Off to the Florida panhandle for a few days. A little photo journey to an area of Florida I have not really explored.

Things I wonder about

Are turn signals on car an option? I see any cars where they seem not to have them or maybe they are just broken. Have you seen this?

Is eating healthy an option? All the food that is bad for your health is cheap and healthy food expensive. Since we have so many people living paycheck to paycheck what option do they chose?

Why do so many people give up their vacation time and go to work instead? You deserve your vacations, take them. Believe me the company does not give a shit if you do not take the time.

Why do so many people drive slow in the left hand lane of six lane highway. You can at least go faster than the people in the lanes to your right, and use your turn signal when you do move over.

How come so many people get drunk at sporting events and become real assholes?

How come when I take pictures at night they usually suck a great deal?

Why am I having panic attacks?

Holy Crap

I am going to the bank tomorrow and withdrawing some money to squirrel away. The great depression round two is coming to a neighborhood near you. Be ready. Look what greed has done to us. Would you have ever thought it possible that the worlds banking system could collapse?

How many average Americans have lost what little retirement saving they had and now will have to work years after they had planned to retire. That will ultimately be real issue of this whole mess. The average American getting stuck with the bailout bill and getting to work more years as a reward.

So Sad

So I see on the news tonight that McCain's supporters are mad and they do understand how they are losing to Obama at this point. They are asking him to turn up the negative ads about Obama and are asking him to push the William Ayers story. They are also blaming mainstream media. I guess they just do not get it. McCain is losing because he picked Sarah Palin, because outside of his core supporters the rest of us do not care about the William Ayers story, because the rest of us do not like they way your supporters attempt to tie him to terrorists by using his middle name in a negative fashion, because we do not like to tone of your campaign.

You are losing more votes as time goes along because your campaign does not seem presidential anymore. If you ratchet up the negative ads and smear tactics at your rallys I promise you that you will continue to slide in the poles.

You seem to be lost and are struggling, thank you for this.

They are running SCARED

Well it seems that John "The Angry Old Man" and Sarah "The Puppet" Palin have decided to ramp up the nasty part of the campaign. I guess when it seems like you are on your way to becoming a LOSER you will resort to bullshit schemes and tactics to get votes. Well I say just keep on coming with all your crap. It will backfire for you and result in a win for America.

I hope that Obama ramps up his game at a little and put a little extra pressure on McCain. I want to see McCain crack on national television. Oh the joy that would bring.

BTW, thank you to Tina Fey. You kick ass.

Justice Served?

So I see that O.J. Simpson was convicted of armed robbery and kidnapping in Las Vegas.
Well is this justice served for his being found not guilty of killing his wife and Ron Goldman?

I think, like most people, that he sure as hell was guilty in those murders. The whole case in Las Vegas stank from the very beginning. It stank of setup, stupidity, and a whole host of other things. However it seems that the crimes he was convicted of are really complete bullshit.

The whole lot of people in that hotel room where morons. Why is there a tape of this whole thing by one of the "victims". The guy who arranged the whole deal tapes it and then sells the tapes for $210,000. It seems nobody disputes the items really belonged to Mr Simpson. A bunch of dumb and greedy people doing dumb things. It really is that simple. The only real crime is that of being a bunch of morons.

So I ask. Is this a case of justice served? Because he got away with murder do you think he got a fair trial this time? Could he really have gotten a fair trial? Could you have sat on the jury?

We have been saved.................

The world is all ok. We have passed the "Make Wall Street rich, screw the little man" bill and we have seen the real puppet "Sarah Palin".

I guess because we are so rich we can just add another $110 billion to the bailout bill. WTF is that all about. Maybe all this money could have been used to help people with no insurance actually get some, maybe we could have given that money back directly to the taxpayers, maybe we could have created a fund to help stem the home foreclosure crisis or maybe we could have used the money to help the people on our ever growing unemployment rolls. Maybe.

As for the Dullbate Thursday night it was not that great. Sorry pundits. Sarah Palin may have made her party happy because she made not big blunders, but really. They wound her up, pulled the string and she went out and said what she was told to say. You could tell quite easily that everything she said was what she was trained to say. It did not seem forced, but it also did not seem like they were original thoughts. I know that is part of the debate process, but you need to let the debater be their own person. When she lost her train of thought she always went to energy or some other subject like stating she and John are mavericks. If they are mavericks we are screwed.

As for Joe he did fine. He was in a no win situation really. He could not go to soft and he could not really push too hard or he would have been vilified. However he knew the facts quite well and Sarah did not.

If that debate made the Republicans happy and brought the party closer together well I am glad. I'll be happy when we win on November 4th and you will be wondering what the hell happened.

By the Way

If the banks really gave a shit about home owners failing mortgages they would renegotiate the mortgages. They would be better off getting something back from homeowners than getting nothing. But they only care about themselves and not "We the People".

I say negotiate in good faith and you will see the economy repair itself. If not them you deserve to fail. Remember you are the ones would pushed these crappy deals and knew that many of these people were bad risks.

What a sad bunch of Leaders

So now we have the Senate poised to vote on their version of the bailout plan tonight. The bill has gone from a paltry three pages to a massive 451 pages. The sad thing is that we have now added a whole load of crap to the bill that has nothing to do with the bailout. There are now tons of tax breaks which had nothing to do with the problems we are facing today. These items should not be in the bill. Do our leaders get it? Do they understand that these should not be part of the bill? Of course not. We want the bill to fix the problem and not give out all these bullshit tax breaks.

Here are some highlights:


EXEMPTION FOR CERTAIN WOODEN ARROW SHAFTS.


INCOME AVERAGING FOR AMOUNTS RECEIVED IN CONNECTION WITH THE EXXON VALDEZ LITIGATION.


Seven-year cost recovery period for motorsports racing track facility


Increase in limit on cover over of rum excise tax to Puerto Rico and
the Virgin Islands.


Indian employment credit.

There are many more things that do not belong in this bill.

Here is a link to the bailout bill. Read away, its long.

http://banking.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?Fuseaction=Articles.Detail&Article_id=76b1aea4-39b8-404f-b3cd-f8b6c46e3b14&Month=10&Year=2008