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Category: Miscellaneous | Sports
I'm Back!
I haven't been posting for a while, if for no other reason than its summer, I have been busy and honestly, I haven't had much to say.
I have been listening and watching and checking things out though and staying tuned but what more can be said about the oil spill that hasn't already been beaten to a pulp?
I do have a few things I want to get off my chest though:
1. The Sabres: Their only big name signing is Rob Niedermayer, Its a name only, the last name is familiar but really this is a third line guy at best. Sure he gives some depth but if this is the only forward signing/move of significance Darcy Regier has come to the end of his stay here as GM. Other than Niedermayer he has signed a guy by the name of Conboy who will be a fourth liner or depth for Portland at best and this Whitmore guy who again, hes Portland depth at best.
Nickels and dimes but no big money. You can't nickel and dime your way to the playoffs and if this is going to be our offseason maybe there needs to be a shake up in the front office.
2. Got to the break and the Jays are hanging around .500, When Doc left everyone in Toronto thought doomsday was upon this team. Not only have they been entertaining, they have been downright competitive and have shown they can play with the big boys. Any other division than the AL East and this team is very close to a playoff spot if not winning their division. It could still get interesting, Boston is not that good with all their injuries the Jays could make a run at third place. Look for Lyle Overbay to be subject of trades for the rest of this month and possibly John Buck.
3. A lot of you were wondering what was going on with my post on facebook and all I can say is I will comment more on here later about what happened this past week, need to give it a little distance before commenting.
4. I am so sick of watching the state lawmakers delay and stall getting a budget together. This will do nothing but hurt citizens of this state. I already has by closing state parks and this fall its going to hurt our schools. quality teachers are being cut and some from schools that can ill afford to have staff cut. Ultimately it hurts the education kids will get. How anyone can consider cutting education or healthcare is a good thing is beyond me. Lets start with cutting the New York State Thruway Authority and go from there.
Until the budget gets passed how bout our governor grow a set of balls and take away every government lawmakers pay starting with his own. Yes, I say every state politician from the governor on down to the state assembly go without pay until they get this states budget done without cutting healthcare or education. Its possible, figure it out.
Sorry for the lack of posts, Ill be on more now, I have a few extra hours a day I didn't have as of this past week.
Category: Miscellaneous
I Will Never Get This
Category: Miscellaneous
Catching Up s/p Myrtle Beach
Need to catch up after spending a week in Myrtle Beach, I have a few stories to tell and some pictures to post later but here is a few comments on some things that took place while I was away:
Sabres/Free Agency: Im not totally disappointed as of yet by how things have gone, Anyone who was going to shell out the contracts that Lydman and Tallinder got can have them, they are not worth the money. Besides, its time to go in a different directon on defense. We found our young stud that WE HAVE TO sign long term soon and if those two haven't taken us to the promise land yet its time to find alternatives.
Darcy did just that by bringing in Jordan Leopold. He is a solid defenseman who has been to the finals with Calgary. He has a little bit of offensive touch and could be the guy that sits besides Tyler Myers in 5 on 5 action.
We need more though and Kaberle's name kept coming up, still has yet to be finalized if it is and Id still like to see a forward or two moved.
The G20: I watched it from down in Myrtle Beach me and let me tell ya, it puzzles me how the violence can get so bad on both sides. The police could be a little more tolerant, but the protesters need to protest not act like animals. The police did what they had to do and the animals were treated like that, good on em.
Repuke News: John Boehner needs to go, Thats all I can say. The war of words between Boehner and the President shows just how unwilling the repuke party is to work with this president. Even some in his own party wants the guy to shut up.
Category: Miscellaneous
Interesting Day!
Wow, first and earthquake, then some of the most oppressive heat of the season, then tornados, what more could one possibly ask for here in Western New York? Blizzards anyone?
Category: Miscellaneous | Weather
Speak Tea Bag
Category: Miscellaneous | Politics
Mathematical Mayhem
I was up this morning at 2:30 AM, not by choice, it was our precious baby girl Olivia having really her first bad night in quite sometime, she has been the perfect baby all things considered, the kid sleeps up to 11 hours a night without a sweat, never cries and goes about her business. Tonight the heat and humidity got to her.
So while I was up I checked out the news early to a report talking about the national debt. Its hit the $ $13,000,000,000,000 mark. Thats $13 TRILLION.
The US Debt Clock breaks it all down for you into smaller yet still mathematically chaotic numbers for one to stare at around 4:30 in the AM. The numbers are moving on there and while I was watching it in 30 seconds the national debt went up $1 million give or take a few seconds/hundred thousand bucks, at $13 trillion whos counting right? Heres how it broke down at approximately 4:44 AM this morning:
1. National Debt per citizen $42,049 per person, to put that in perspective that is roughly double what my wife makes at her current job and probably the average salary for most professionals in the country.
2. State Debt was around $1.1 trillion, that wasn't even factored into the national debt.
3. What is really frightening was the TOTAL US DEBT, that is combined federal, state, local, business, financial institutions and household debt are a combined $55,732,000,000,000 in debt. Thats $55.7+ trillion for those of you who care not to understand that many zeros. That breaks down into $180,000 or so PER CITIZEN and $688,000 or so PER FAMILY. My daughter can't work for another 14 years or so unless she babysits, but she won't officially be on the books at least until then with working papers and she already owes $180K.
That leads me to three things:
1. Maybe there is something to the idea of allowing illegals to work and get them on the tax roll. Why are we so against making what they do for us legal? How many of us would settle for minimum wage if that picking lettuce? Not I. I have a good job and most of us who are legal can do better than that. What draws illegals here is that they can't get even what farmers pay here to do that work, so why not get them on the payrolls and get that income to count toward the debt and in the process make a national living wage?
2. As much as the teabaggers and repukes want to bitch and complain that the democrats spend too much, this is not and has not been a democrat problem. This is a BIPARTISAN problem and lets face it, if not for George W and Dick we had a budget surplus goiing 10 years ago, they squandered it by coughing up tax credits and lowering taxes on the wealthy. They spent too much on Iraq without budgeting for it and they ran up debt on a shitty war not to mention running programs like Medicare part D which was a money eater and a total train wreck.
3. When are we upping the tax rates on the wealthy. When the wealthy were taxed this country was humming. Its 36% now, it was 39% under Clinton who got a surplus out of it, its been as high as 90% and things were fine. Time to tax the rich.
Category: Miscellaneous | News | money
Happy Victoria's Day Canada!
This goes out to all my Canadian friends enjoying a nice long weekend. We get ours next week so it will allow some of you to plan ahead. I have found a way to get free beer, courtesy of two guys from the Great White North, Bob and Doug:
Category: Beer | Miscellaneous | Toronto Blue Jays
There is Something in the Attic
My wife went up to the attic this morning and apparently there is some sort of rodent poop up there. Here is my question, my dog and cat both have their rabies shots do I sent them up there to flush them out and kill?
Or do we set some traps?
Or do we call a pro incase there is a need for extermination?
It could be a squirrel which we would have heard. I could be a mouse which apparently my wife thinks the poop is too big to be a mouse, which leaves us with rat? My thinking is, if its a rat, we need to call the pros, I don't do rats.
Category: Miscellaneous
They Have No Clue How Big It Would Have To Be
A Christian team of of scientists, for the sake of this blog we will call them crazy ass whack jobs with no life, actually think they found Noah;s Ark.
They THINK they found it on top of a mountain in Turkey. Of course they say they have used carbon dating which they now believe in. Talk to any crazy ass whack job when carbon dating is used to date planet earth and they will tell you its an inexact science, but for finding "Noah's Ark" all of a sudden it works.
I have news for them, they can stop looking. Its not there and its not any where. Every educated scientist besides them is telling them to stop wasting their time and they are giving their scientific reasons why. I am going to give my rather unscientifc, yet logical reason why. I say logical because logic is something that the obscenely devote Christians just don't have. They don't get that Noah's Ark was a fairy tale to teach people to take care of mother nature. IT wasn't real.
Does anyone realize how fucking big that boat would have to be? EVERY SINGLE SPECIES....anyone know how many species of animals there are? Not to mention the amount of food that ark would have needed on board to feed the millions of species on board the ark? Its not the fucking ark so go home and find a new thing to go look for like the Lochness monster, now thats real. There is video of it:
Category: Miscellaneous | News | religion
