Favre injured

This story is about Vikings Quarterback Brett Favre. Favre was injured in last week’s game and has been experiencing intense pain in his shoulder during passes. Favre was listed as questionable for Sunday’s game and if he doesn’t play it will stop his streak of playing in 297 games starting consecutively. Favre holds this record in the NFL and it’s an incredible feat.

I personally love Favre. He is one of the greatest players that have ever played in the NFL. I think that it is amazing that he has held onto this career for so long. Football is one of the greatest sporting events on the planet and rightfully so. There is no other sport that has become so popular. Football is as American as apple pie and we should all feel a since of accomplishment when we get to see one of the games. I played in High school and I still think back to those days of dressing out for the big game. I loved the thrill of the kick off as the game got underway; I loved the first contact as I smashed into the defender that I was supposed to hit. I can’t say that I blame Favre for being in so long. It would be hard to give it up even at his age. You can tell that the man really loves the game and doesn’t want to leave because of his love for the game. A lot of people say that he is just staying for the money and that he is greedy. I don’t think that this is correct. I feel as if I can tell that he loves the game every time he steps onto the field. You can see him light up the first pass that he completes and you can also see the defeat on his face when he makes a mistake. This to me shows a man with passion not greed. As far as I can say I don’t care if the man is still playing when he is 80 as long as he is still loving it and doing a good job.

Dems go against Obama

This article is about the House Democratic Party going against president Obama and the GOP on the tax cut extensions deal. They article claims that the Democratic party in the house has claimed they will vote against the deal that the president made with the GOP leaders to get this all to go through.

My personal feel on this is that the Democrats in the house just don’t get it. They didn’t get it during all the public outrage while the Obama care bill was going through, they didn’t get it in November when half of them lost their jobs due to the people voting them out, and now they don’t get it when the people are saying they don’t want higher taxes. These leaders don’t realize that they are supposed to be there to vote the way that their districts want them too. The people don’t have a voice anymore. We vote for the person that we think will act the way that we want them too and then as soon as they get in there they do whatever the hell it is that they want to do. They haven’t a clue.

We do not need higher taxes. We don’t need to have the people that are on unemployment to lose their benefits now when they still haven’t been able to find jobs. Federal works projects are not the answer to this either because they are temporary jobs that as soon as they finish the project that they are currently working on they will get laid off again. Higher taxes on anyone would be a bad idea at this point in time. People need every dollar that they can get to be able to survive. Besides the real way to fix the economy is to build from the bottom up. If you give more money to the working class then they buy things, this causes the business to profit, then they hire more workers because they can expand. That is the way to fix the economy and that is how it should be done.

Westboro plans to protest Edwards' funeral

This article is about the Westboro Baptist Church’s plans to picket the late Elizabeth Edwards’ funeral. The article says that Westboro believes that God is punishing Americans for our tolerance to gays, Catholics, Jews and others.

This group is the most disgusting group that I have ever heard of. They make me sick using the name of God and claiming to be associated with Godly values. The bible that I have talks of tolerance and peace, I have never seen anywhere in the good book that states that you should do something so disrespectful to other human beings. God would not want for anyone to do this and I’m sure they are acting on the side of Satan more than God. I don’t know how they have gotten away with this for so long without some grieving parent or other family member doing something to stop it. Not that I would condone something like that but I can imagine all the things that would go through my head if they were protesting a loved one of mine. Some of these places that they have protested are in areas where it wouldn’t surprise me if someone ran off the road and hit a few of these protesters. These people need to learn some respect for life and common decency. No one no matter what they have done deserve to be treated like that after death.

As far as Edwards this woman was from all accounts a good person. I don’t believe that I have seen anywhere that she has done anything wrong to anyone. She has also had a pretty bad last few years with her son dying and getting cancer then all the hype over her husband cheating on her. I feel for her and wish that she may be buried in peace.

TSA

This is a story about the TSA. The report talks about the different lawsuits against the TSA as well as a slew of other related topics, like that of the no radiation scanners that are being developed. They mention that there has been quite a bit of media coverage and public outrage over this very subject.

My personal opinion is that the TSA is completely out of bounds on this subject. They have no rights to be doing this to the people of this country. It has always been like this, governments find ways to scare their people into submission. They find things like “we are protecting you from terrorists” to take our rights away from us. This is one example and another is gun control. They have used the fear of criminals as an excuse to make more gun laws and regulations. The sad thing is that the people that we don’t want to have guns don’t obtain them in any legal way. The laws only affect the good people of this country. We are the ones that have to pay for it. We are being treated like cattle in the airports. Everyone of us is guilty until proven innocent in the airports. I do believe that we need security in airports but it should not be brought on by worthless people making ten dollars an hour at the only job in law enforcement that they could get. All of these “agents” are the ones that were too slow, too dumb, or too big to get into the law enforcement academy’s or FBI. Now if you are one of these people or you know one of them and they are not the person that I just described then I don’t mean them. Yes there are exceptions to every rule and I am generalizing. So the choice that we have when we want to fly is either go through harmful radiation (yea I know they said its safe but does the government always tell the truth?)Or we can choose to be molested by some overweight TSA slob. I for one don’t want either. And one last point to show the intelligence of these TSA agents, they are working 12 hours a day hanging out by a machine emitting radiation and they are not wearing lead.

Christmas

So I have decided that Christmas is the worse time of the year. Don’t get me wrong I love getting together with family, I love seeing my kids light up on Christmas morning. The thing that I hate is the STRESS. Christmas time is such a pain because I have a big family. We get together every year and everybody buys tons of gifts for all of the kids. This means that we have to buy gifts for all the kids. My wife and I are both full time in college and as such we don’t have a lot of income at the moment. We have three kids of our own and just buying for them would be tough. Putting all these extra gifts on top of the list that we are getting for our kids it is at times unbearable. I sometimes feel like that if we buy for all these family members then we are taking away from our own kids. Not to mention this is the first year that I am not making a lot of money. In the years past I have always had a good job and quite a bit of money for things like this. Last year we bought our two older kids new four wheelers. This year it will not be like that. I have always been the provider for my family and have always spent lots of money on them for birthdays and Christmas, not because I wanted to show off how much money I made or anything like that. I love seeing the kids’ eyes when they unwrap that amazing gift (or gifts). The holidays now are more stress than anything and I feel as if I am competing with myself to buy gifts. I can’t even get close to giving them anything like they had last year. I do know what most would tell me that it isn’t really about the gifts and that the holidays are about being with your family. I know this but kids don’t always understand this when their friends are telling them what all they got for Christmas. The disappointment that they can have tears me up inside. I was poor growing up and my parents did the best that they could with what they had. I know now that they went without a lot of things so that I my sister and my brother could have good gifts. I have always appreciated that and loved them for it, but that never helped when I would hear about all the cool things that my friends got for Christmas. I remember wishing and praying that we would hit the lottery and be “rich” like my friends’ parents. My kids will be like me and very appreciative for what they get I know for sure. And they are getting good gifts and plenty of them. Most of this is probably me wanting to give my family the world and not being happy until they have every single thing that they could possibly want.

Islam Invasion

I was going to write about a story (here) that goes over the crazy new molestations that the TSA is forcing people to bear if they don’t want to go through the x-ray. I then decided that I was going to write about this story here, this story talked about how The Company Early Learning Centre removing the toy pig from their toy farm sets to appease the Muslim community. Then I found this story here, this story is over a restaurant that was ordered to stop making bacon on the grounds of the smell offending Muslims. I then decided I should write about all three. All three of these stories are so closely related that you would have a hard time distinguishing them. The last two stories are from the U.K. but they are not rare occurrences they are a shining example for us in the US as to where this country is headed. No I don’t find animosity towards other peaceful religions nor do I hate other cultures or the people from them.

 The simple fact is that Islam is not a religion by the definition that Americans go by. Islam is more of a government by our standards than a religion. This may be a shocker to most but we cannot as Americans assume what our definitions of words are the same as other peoples definitions. Our assumption as Americans leads us to believe that Islam is a religion with a book written by their God and full of information about how to be a good person. We assume that they believe that everyone should ultimately get along and that it is a sin to hate, kill, or harm another person in general. The fact is that the Koran is not a book like our bible. The Koran preaches deceit, murder, sacrifice, and most of all destruction of all other religions. The Muslim people that we see on TV preaching peace and love are for one either unaware of what the book that they are following actually says, or they are just blatantly lying to your face.

 Now don’t get me wrong the Koran does talk of peace and love, but the part of the book that is quoted from for these passages is in the front of the book. The Holy Bible is meant to be taken as a whole, we are supposed to read the whole book and take greater meaning from it in its entirety. The Koran was not written in this form. The Koran was written by one single person. This man was Mohamed and according to Mohamed the passages and rules given in the book are in chronological order.  That means that the beginning of the book was written at an earlier time and as such anything that was written later in the book replaces the earlier text. This means that if in the beginning of the book there is a passage that states to honor your neighbor or respect someone that is not Islamic but later on in the book it states that you should try and convert someone that isn’t Islamic and if they won’t convert to kill them., this later passage makes the first null and void.

This Koran tells the Islamic people that they should take over a country by infesting it quietly and then slowly use its laws against itself. This is evident in the two cases in the U.K. they have learned that if they move in quietly and then slowly change the way the population lives by using things like “this offends me” or “its freedom of religion” they can manipulate the people that they are invading. Now don’t get me wrong I could care less whether there is a pig in a farm set or not. It is the principal of the matter that gets me. Where does the line get drawn? The bacon issue in the other story really gets me. What happens if this happens here? When would it stop? If they win a case on controlling others around them because something offends them then they have already beaten us. The next thing will be them telling me that I cannot let my wife go out in public without a veil on because an Islamic man might see her and it would offend him. This is not what this country is about. The law is freedom of religion and they are using it against us, to control us. This takeover will not happen overnight it is a slow process but one that is upon us nonetheless.

Some might ask “so what if they take over? What’s the worst that could happen?” the truth is I’m not an expert of what would happen. I know of a few things and those that I know are enough for me to say no way am I going to stand by idly and watch this happen. For starters every woman would have to be covered from head to toe, no exceptions. The teachings of the Koran would be forced upon us. If you spoke out against the Koran or Islam itself then you would be executed. Also any gay conduct would instantly get you executed. This would not be a trail system that you might expect. You are not innocent until proven guilty. This is just a few of the things that are coming if this is left to go unchecked. We need to stand up and say NO. This is our country and for us to let an invasion come into our lands and do this is unimaginable.

Obama Travels like a king

This story is about the president’s trip to India and other Asian countries. The article talks of claims that the trip was costing the American taxpayers around 200 million dollars a day, for the president and his wife to take this trip. The details were not given from the white house as to how much the trip is costing according to them. They claimed to not be able to talk about it due to the security concerns.

The part of this story that concerns me the most is why the hell is our president and first lady taking another trip. Yea I know they are saying that it is to improve relations with India and to improve economic trade with these countries. This is ridicules though because we have foreign diplomats that do just that and it doesn’t take this kind of money for them to go there. To me it appears that the president and his wife are taking a grand vacation full of pomp and circumstance on our dime. Even if the figures were not actually that close to the real amount I’m sure it did cost way too much. All this at a time when our unemployment numbers are hovering around ten percent. There are people in this country that can’t afford to go to the grocery store and he’s out living it up like some king. It disgusts me that this administration has absolutely no clue how the American people feel. We are sick of his policies, sick of his lack of attention, and sick of his foreign relations with these countries. I don’t imagine Obama will win a second term as president unless he makes some real turn around in the next two years but I don’t see that happening. He is too arrogant and doesn’t believe that he has done anything wrong.

Spam saves the day

This story is about the carnival cruise ship that was stranded out in the gulf this past week. The story claims that the ship went without power of any kind for almost four days. As the ship came into port they had two passengers taken off the ship in hand cuffs for some reason not given. I don’t believe the loss in power and these two are related.

The real story here is SPAM. One of the main items that people had to eat due to the loss of power was spam. I for one haven’t had spam for at least ten years and there is a real reason for that. I couldn’t imagine having spam for four days to eat especially if there wasn’t a way to cook it. That stuff is slimy out of the can. I find it funny that these poor people were going on what was supposed to be a relaxing vacation and it turned into a nightmare of a trip. I think that I could spin a positive outlook on this if I was on the ship. At least they got an adventure that they will tell stories about for a long time and I’m sure that carnival refunded part if not all of the money that they spent on the cruise. Besides they also probably got a free cruise voucher to use at a later date. The report also said that the cruise line also gave them free alcohol but I think that this is part of their cruise package anyways so I’m not sure why they even mentioned it. I hope that all of the people that were on this ship come away with a positive attitude and aren’t too upset on the trip or the cruise line. At least the ship didn’t sink and them all drown in the ocean.

Kinect for xbox is racist

This article I about died when I read it. They claim of the writer is that the new Kinect system for the Xbox 360 is somehow racist.  The reasoning that they have for this is that the Kinect doesn’t recognize darker skin colors in low lighting. For those of you who don’t know already Kinect is an attachment for the Xbox that makes it sensor your movements so that you don’t need a controller. We have one for our Xbox and we love it. Kinect came out this week and has been a big hit for the people that are looking for something to get the kids up off the couch and moving around.

As far as the thing being racist that is just plain ridicules. No inanimate object could be racist. What you have to realize is this thing is a camera. Cameras have always had troubles picking up darker skinned people and this is because of physics not because they don’t like black people. I am sure that most people of darker complexion know this from experience and would gladly tell you that it’s true. It amazes me that the term racist is thrown around so much lately. It seems like no matter what you do you can be called racist. Recently I was called racist for being against one of the president’s policies. This is where the word gets way over used. I can disagree with someone’s policies and not be racist. This camera has problems with physics and has trouble identifying darker complexions but it is not racist. If someone comes up with a better design for cameras that doesn't have this effect I’m sure all industries that utilize cameras will change happily. Until then though we have to use what technology has given us and realize that it’s not perfect and that the imperfections don’t make it prefer one race over the other.

Google blocks facebook

This story is about Google blocking Facebook users from being able to upload their contacts from Gmail to Facebook. Google has set up a new blocker that can keep automatic uploads from going to Facebook. They are only blocking sites that don’t allow you to upload their contacts to Gmail.

First off this is funny. Two internet giants fighting over who gets what information and how it does it. Google is a great search engine. It is definitely the one I prefer to use and Facebook is good at what it does. I say it that way because I personally hate Facebook for so many reasons that I couldn’t list them all in one blog.  For one people are using Facebook as if it is their only lifeline to the outside world. If you have a thousand Facebook friends that doesn’t make you popular. Not even remotely. A lot of people see Facebook more than just a fun site to keep in touch with some old friends. Here is a trick, if you find someone online that you haven’t seen in a long time and would like to get back in touch with… here is a big idea…. GO VISIT THEM. Friending them on Facebook so that they can know every time you eat or go to the bathroom is not a friendship. As far as Google blocking Facebook I think that they should block them. As a matter of fact I think that everyone should block all of these sites from sharing your information. These sites are making millions if not billions of dollars off of your personal information. They go through all of your stuff to find out what your interests are and then sell this information to advertisers of other stuff so that they can spam you with mail and advertisements for things that they think that you will buy.

Recording industry sues woman for 1.5 million

This story is over a single mom that is being sued by the recording industry for downloading songs. The Article says that the woman had downloaded thousands of songs on the website Kazaa. A jury awarded the recording companies 1.5million in damages. The woman is fighting for another appeal and doesn’t plan to give the recording companies any money whatsoever.

I could not believe that the jury would find that her downloads were worth 1.5million dollars. I can’t imagine how this is at all possible. The songs that she downloaded could not have ever been worth anywhere near that much. She did not steal the rights to those songs she just downloaded them to listen too. If she was turning them into CD’s and selling them that is one thing. I can’t imagine that she really hurt the industries sells that bad. The fact of the matter is that the recording industries need to get with the times and find a better way to market their products. The age of Albums, tapes, and CD’s is dead. Besides the fact that a little over ten years ago we were doing basically the same thing but with tapes. I remember sitting up at night with my finger on the record button waiting for my favorite songs to come on. The only difference here is that you leave evidence when you download these songs online. It shouldn’t be allowed in court. The record companies are just trying to save a dying industry. They are trying to make money wherever possible look at radio. Radio has always been the best thing for recording industries; it got their artists to the people’s ears so that they could hear them, like them, and go out and buy their albums. Now the recording industry is attacking radio also. They are trying to charge these “not for profit” radio companies for playing their songs. This is obviously an industry full of a bunch of fat head executives’ that are trying to make whatever money they can.

Man sues Mcdonalds because hes fat

This article is about a man in Brazil that is suing McDonalds for being fat. But no not what you might think. He is suing as a former employee, manager to be exact. He states that he felt that he needed to taste the food from time to time because there are “mystery customers” that would come in and audit their food.  Supposedly the man had gained 65 pounds during his dozen years that he worked for McDonalds. The judge in the case ordered that McDonalds has to pay the man 17,500 dollars.

First off this is hilarious. A fat man blaming the place that he got the food for being fat. I am bigger than I would like to be but I know whose fault that is, its sure not McDonalds any other fast food place that I may have eaten at in the last few years.  If a person is obese then it is that person alones fault. Baring any unseen problems like an over active thyroid if your fat its because you eat too much and don’t get up enough to work it off. It is a simple as this, if you take in more calories than you burn off then you will store fat.  Your body is designed this way and that is what will happen whether you like it or not.

As far s the guy suing McDonalds I hope they counter sue just to keep this guy from getting a dime. I am about sick of seeing lazy people wanting to make money off of suing someone. There is a place for suing but because you don’t know how to put down the supersized fries you shouldn’t be rewarded.  I wish that we could find a way to keep these stupid suits out of the courts so that our tax payer dollars don’t get wasted on a judge listening to someone blaming someone else for all their problems. And yes I know this happened in Brazil but it happens here everyday too.

Terror Attempt failed

             This story is about the packages that had bomb material in it heading to the United States from a Muslim country.  It goes over the fact that this occurred just a week before election time and what implications that it would have on the upcoming election. The president responded quickly with a press conference in light of the views of most people that he is soft on terrorism.

                First off is this the reason that he responded in the way he did then I am sickened by the way that was handled. It is a sad thing that all decisions by politicians are only in hopes of getting the ones that they want to be elected. Secondly it is kind of ironic that this package was sent at this time. At least one of the packages was destined to a Jewish synagogue in Chicago Illinois. It is sad that after all these years Jews are still the target of such hate crimes. This is also the reason that we can’t let our guard down against terrorism because just as soon as we do they will strike us.

                I do wish that we could live in piece in this world and that everyone could just get along. I am also not fickle enough to believe that this will ever actually happen. Until we get rid of all the extremists on this planet the rest of us will never be safe. And as long as we keep letting them get into this country we as Americans defiantly will never be safe. I do believe that measures should be taken to greater increase our safety but this catch is a good thing and I hope that they catch all instruments of terror off of our soil. Hopefully my kids can grow up in a safer world than this one is right now.

University Experiance

My first post this week is going to have to be a complaint. I don’t know about the rest of you but part of my being able to graduate from MSSU is that I have to take a university Experience class. This class is the most pointless class that I have ever taken in my life. I absolutely hate that class. I am 27 years old, I have three kids, I was a supervisor of a manufacturing plant for 4 years. The last thing that I need in college is to learn how to balance a check book, learn how to live without mommy and daddy, or any other god awful thing that they are going to try to “teach” me. For one thing I’ve been in the “real world” for ten years now. What could some college professor possibly teach me about getting surviving that I didn’t already know?  Now don’t get me wrong my professor is not a bad person or bad professor by any means and I do believe that there are college students that actually need this course to help them get their heads on straight. But I am defiantly not one of them. There needs to be a stipulation on that course that says if your 25 or have children or have been out of high
school for more than a year you don’t have to take the stupid course. For anyone that hasn’t had the joyous experience of this class we are also reading a book that is based around religious tolerance and comparing Christianity and islam as if they are the same. Not a big surprise since I am going to a liberal arts college but I mean really guys? I am also required to write a report describing how my journey as a first year student is like the one in this book. I am not a fan of this class obviously and would love to see the rules changed for future students to save them the aggravation that I have gone through.

Dead woman Rides in car for 10 months

This story is about a woman that befriended a homeless woman and let her sleep in her car. The story starts out interestingly kind. The woman felt sorry for the homeless woman and didn’t want her to have to sleep out on the street. The problem with this was that the homeless woman died in her car. To worsen things the woman didn’t report this to the authorities, instead she chose to leave the body in her car and drive around it with the stench of a rotting corpse for 10 months.

                When I first read this story I was shocked. I couldn’t believe that this lady was crazy enough to leave this body in her car. What more is how could she stand the smell? The report did state that the woman had placed a box of backing soda in the car to help with the smell. I for one couldn’t imagine that the baking soda actually did much for the smell. I don’t think that backing soda could stop the stench of rotting tuna salad let alone a dead body.  I also wonder how it was that for ten months nobody around her noticed a dead body in her car. I mean not the neighbors, not people at the grocery store, not anybody. The only people to notice were police that were responding to a call and could smell the body and then went to investigate. I can’t say what it is like in Costa Mesa were this all happened but I imagine that you couldn’t get around with a dead body in your car for ten months here in Joplin, MO. At least I hope not. I hope that if this woman isn’t charged for any wrong doing that they at least get her some help or counseling. As far as the homeless woman that died I’m guessing that she probably died in her sleep and it was a peaceful death for her so that is good.

Obama care

This story is about the insurance companies trying now to help republican candidates to get into office so that they can manipulate them into changing the health care bill. They gave millions to the democrats in 2009 to help get Obama care passed in the first place. Now that they got that passed they want for republicans to change the bill so that there are fewer regulations on the insurance companies.

                This is the kind of stuff that aggravates me. It goes to show that the big companies control these politicians that we have in Washington. They get what they want by paying off whichever politician that they need for the vote to pass. Apparently there isn’t anyone left in Washington that still cares about doing the right thing. We as a country need to fix this and fix it fast. We need to find a way to get the people that are only there for the money to leave. We also need to start voting for politicians that will fight to get rid of big business influences. I find it hard to believe that these companies can be ran by such unethical leaders. But then again we are talking about insurance companies so how ethical could they really be right?  I personaly hope that republicans take over the house and senate and get rid of obama care once and for all. I just hope that they don’t screw anything else up why they are there.