Reasonable Outrage

I am not outraged by that or anything else about him.  Congratulations to him.

He embodies hope and represents it.  I think many are going to be disillusioned when they realize that the President doesn’t have as much power as they think.  Independence from foreign oil has been promised for about 40 years.  Promises by Presidential candidates don’t go far; remember “No New Taxes!”?  Do you think Bush really wanted to raise taxes?

Even though the race got ugly both times, I think both candidates were, in the end, very respectful.  Where do we go from here.  No one knows, regardless of who would have won.  As Clinton learned in 1994, one party rule can easily backfire.  The Contract With America was born and the Republicans took control of the House and Senate.

The one thing in the election season that I did find outrageous was that most democrats, at least in my area, ran as “Not Bush” and that was it and it worked.  Pundits said that at least one candidate “just happened to be in the race at the right time” and beat his incumbent Republican foe.

Oh the one other thing, I don’t like that it was the man with the most money who won.  That will bother me in any election.

Good Luck President Elect.

We are unfortunately a two party system.  There are very few who actually are behind each candidate 100%.  That would be impossible.  There is no one in your life that you are 100% behind and never ask questions unless you are a retard.  

Many Republicans are not strongly behind McCain which is why they picked up Palin to invigorate those Republicans that were feeling unrepresented.  Obama has many Hillary voters pissed and of course the racists won’t vote for him.  

So who should you really vote for? Gridlock.  Absolutely Gridlock.  If, let’s say, 75% of the public doesn’t 

Jim Leher looks like a wax figure or something

Why are these two afraid to engage each other.  Are they so prepped with their canned answers that they can’t actually have a conversation.  I could easily come up with a question on each point for either person.   Getting annoyed.

UPDATES:

6:46p – I hope these guys had good grades in school.  Fantastic memories for all of these numbers and points on records.

6:47 – The dems did have a plan to stop funding or at least that is what the populace thought, which is why Pelosi isn’t as popular.

6:50 – Ask each other a god damn question!  Pussies.

Bored, fell asleep.

 
You guys are like the creepy kid on the bus eating his boogers or the creepy guy on the bench at the park.  I hate installing your bullshit software.  Constantly I have your stupid toolbar pop up.  You give the option of whether or not I want it installed but you don’t fucking follow my choice.  

Like when Mom says do you want meatloaf or chicken for dinner.  You didn’t have a choice but she hoped you would pick meatloaf so you thought you did.  So after you install your insidious toolbar I uncheck the box so your stupid useless bar won’t show up.

Oh look, it came back.  And like a crazy ex-girlfriend it keeps coming back.  Like a pop up ad, it keeps coming back.  You guys are .  Your main page sucks.  Google kicks your ass on searches because it is simple.  Their add ons and programs are useful.  Their searches make sense.  

Yahoo is just like Microsoft.  Forcing you to do or buy something you don’t really want.  My friends are on Messenger and I have to use it for Fantasy Badminton but if I didn’t I would touch your products.  

I just read that a basketball league has a 35+ league for that age group.  It is called a Master’s League.  Masters?  Masters!  Damn euphimism!  I am no where near a Master’s label!  Bastards.

McNamee is an idiot. I have watched “Cops,” “Cheaters,” and other similar shows long enough to know that people will deny, deny, deny all the way up until the end.

I don’t know if Clemens is guilty though he looks like it. I don’t think Congress is going to learn jack squat. They rarely prove perjury and I doubt much will happen here.

There is a ton of evidence to show that eye witnesses are consistently wrong. People will begin to believe their lies. People can be swayed to alter their memories. So what is the truth?

We ain’t going to find it here. Truth is rarely black and white. Look at all of the people who have been released from prison due to DNA. This is a waste of Congresses time.

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Besides my belief that this is about the same hitting the NO2 to give a car a spurt, this is annoying.

In their bipartisan zeal to quickly cut a deal on an economic stimulus bill, GOP lawmakers overlooked something that will certainly inflame the conservative base _ illegal immigrants could receive a tax rebate check from the government.

But maybe this is a goodbye present.

The only thing I hate more than people’s hypocrisy, is when I catch myself being a hypocrite.  But I don’t think I could miss being this big of a hypocrite as this politician.

Senator Kennedy says this on his website,

“The federal government must do a much better job of protecting consumers and businesses burdened by today’s high energy prices. It’s time to end our country’s dangerous dependence on foreign oil. With leadership and vision, we can create new sources of energy that will improve America’s security, reduce the heavy burden on the nation’s families, and protect our environment. ”

“Our dependence on foreign oil not only creates a national security risk, but also harms the environment by contributing to global climate change. We can reduce our dependence on international sources of oil, and promote a cleaner environment by investing in energy-efficient technologies and domestic clean-energy alternatives.”

From another site he shows his position more clearly on the environment while he takes a stab at the other party.

Understanding his position on the environment makes this odd for anyone reasonable. There was a proposal for a wind farm off the coast of Cape Cod that could power 75% of that area including Martha’s Vineyard and Nantucket.  Kennedy said of the wind farm,  “But don’t you realize — that’s where I sail!” may stand as Kennedy’s most self-incriminating quote.

Kennedy did much of the dirty work in Washington, but he had considerable help. In 2004, Sen. John Warner, the Virginia Republican, added a last-minute rider to an urgent Iraq War funding bill that forbade the Army Corps of Engineers to spend money permitting offshore wind projects.

Why did Warner care so deeply about a wind-energy project inMassachusetts? Some of his fabulously wealthy relatives own choice waterfront property on Cape Cod. That’s why.

Republican Sen. Lamar Alexander also took an unusual interest in a venture far from his home state of Tennessee. Complaining that wind farms threaten “the wholesale destruction of the American landscape,” Alexander introduced legislation that would have banned virtually all offshore wind projects in America. It turns out that Alexander owns a fancy piece of real estate on Nantucket Island.

If that doesn’t smell of entitlement and ego than I don’t know what does. From NPR Kennedy is quote as saying,

“We should stop the non-scientific… nonsense emanating from the right wing and start demanding immediate action to reduce global warming and prevent the catastrophic climate change that may be on our horizon now,”

The Wind Farm does have critics from environmentalists.  If they are the ones who believe that the earth is doomed from global warming then the wind turbines will be a piece in the puzzle.  Reducing energy consumption from coal and oil by 75% would seem to be helpful to their cause.

I give the the organizers credit for having the balls to try such an elitist area as Cape Cod for the project.  Or I laugh at them for overestimating the conviction of the residents behind their words.  As always it is much easier to say what you or others should do than it is to actually do it

Though I have to give Kennedy credit.  As this site shows, he is truly a politician.  To be able to ignore the cognitive dissonance is either genius or retarded in it’s scope. Kennedy isn’t the only one apparently guilty in the hypocrisy but he seems to be deeper in to it based on him living there, his stance on the environment and his incriminating quotes.

I absolutely hate it when people jump to conclusions.  This is probably a running theme inside most of my posts and I have a great example today.

A radio show host was reported mugged and a colleague of the same network said she was attacked. I don’t care about the politics but the colleague said that people of the other party were to blame for the deed and then railed on them.  Now, this network is failing and has a small percentage of the market.  I will jump to my conclusion that this person is only trying to get attention by falsely reporting what happened to someone else and hoping everyone else would back his story up.  That didn’t happen.

The story was changed later in the day to say that the host had actually been tripped by her dog and lost several teeth, ugh, when she fell.  I would be surprised if she lied to the colleague because she would be backing him up.

The site that reports on their brand of talk went from having a high of 14 comments on their posts on the main page to over 1148 comments (which were mainly partisan rants) for the post regarding the attack.

It goes to show how people are so entrenched in their ideology that they can’t weigh information.  Oddly enough this is dangerous and safe at the same time.  It creates a balance, as long as you have jumpers on both sides.  

We obviously can’t fall for any idea such as the Breatharians.  They believe that you can live like a plant essentially.  But if we took information with a little more thought there would be a lot less social problems.  Our coding is that we had to judge quickly in the past to know if the sabre-tooth tiger would eat us.  

We all should exercise more but jumping to conclusions ain’t going to do it.

90% of success is showing up as they say and I believe that 90% of life is luck. You “happen” to leave work late and miss a huge accident that you should have been in. The boss “happens” to see you working late and labels you a hard worker.

I don’t know of anyone who has completely manufactured their life exactly the way it is and I don’t know if that would be as fun. Realizing the luck involved takes the sting out of the bad and humbles our egos with the good.What really made this hit home was an article in Best Life magazine on extending your life. There apparently is a newly released study that points to plastic bottles as a culprit in obesity. They believe that the chemicals affect our hormones causing the health issues.

Eggs are bad. Now they aren’t. Vitamins are the answer. Now it seems they aren’t. They believe the is an interaction with the other vitamins and minerals that help the vitamins get absorbed from real food.

There are always people who don’t listen to some type of helpful advice. If we find out that the advice was wrong

We all want to be considered geniuses. So if George Hamilton never gets skin cancer was he smarter than the doctors or took certain information, made a decision and got lucky?After all of the years of saying the sun was bad, now they are saying the the Vitamin D from the sun is possibly the best inhibitor of cancer. They have shown that skin cancer rates have grown and come up with plausible reasoning though I don’t know if I believe it. They say that the use of sunscreen has led us to stay outside more countering the effect.

I think it is a case of people are inside more and the sun more easily damages us. Our lives were much more outside as compared to now.

Peering into examples of luck(mainly good luck)

• After getting a good following, he went to Nashville and got turned down by everyone. On the way out of town he decided to stop at a bar that by chance sat one of his “biggest” fans from before. He caught her up and she took his tape to her boss who signed him.
• Richard Marx got turned down 20+ times. A chance encounter with Kenny Rodgers sparked his career.

• During the Portland Blazers training camp, a player failed a physical and they picked up Ime Udoka, a player who had only played in 12 NBA games previously. He went on to start 75 games in 2006-2007 for the Blazers

• My cousin was in 4 wrecks in 2 years.

• How many times have you heard about an injury where, “Another 2 cm and he would be dead

• Many two time lottery winners

• Most model stories involve a “chance” meeting.

• Josh Duhammel got the part in Transformers because of an episode of “Las Vegas” that Spiellberg saw one night.

• UPDATED - A woman returned to Portland Oregon with a friend who is working on a new Jennifer Anniston movie.  She had hiked before but on a lark took a new trail on a whim and found another woman who had been stuck at the bottom of a ravine for 16 hours.

Sales is my other job and I have gotten or missed opportunities by mere moments. I made a sale on my 7th call of my first day. Unheard of by anyone in my profession.

So listening or ignoring the advice in the end will be luck. Don’t beat yourself up over failures or break your arm patting yourself on the back for success.