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Wednesday, May 16, 2007

Your Tax Dollars at work..

Here is the story

I looked up the description for MPAA R-Rating
“Under 17 Requires accompanying parent or adult guardian” In the opinion of the Rating Board, this film definitely contains some adult material. Parents are strongly urged to find out more about this film before they allow their children to accompany them. An R-rated film may include strong language, violence, nudity, drug abuse, other elements, or a combination of the above, so parents are counseled in advance to take this advisory rating very seriously.

The movie is rated R, the kids are about 12. Ergo, the kids should not be allowed to watch the movie without parent or adult guardian. Any responsible parent would abject to this movie for a 12 year old but this teacher obviously did not care what the parent might have to say.

Certain groups of people are indoctrinating our children to accept their values and vision for the future. This is why the involvement of parents is a child life so much more important. This is why school choices are important. This is exactly why we should voice our opinion come November 2nd based on our value and principle, not based on what happened during the previous administration or along party lines.

Monday, April 23, 2007

If some Wicks are Slicks... Part 2

Of course, just like any other liberal, Joseph jumped to conclusion and labeled all college kids as “Crazy” and Also assumed all kids are automatically eligible for carry a concealed weapon.

To answer your question, yes I have been to a college and did earn a degree. It is not the college kids that are crazy, it is the lack of discipline and political correctness that makes you think colleges are crazy. Let me ask you this Joseph, do you also think we never landed on the moon right?

When kids graduate high school and go on to college they think they are grown up and ready for the world. And in fact they are not ready and they don’t even know what real world. The society can not wait to let them loose, live on their own, and make rational decisions etc. And the result, with the new found freedom they party like there is no tomorrow.

Most of the solders that are fighting in Iraq are about the same age as the kids attending college theses days. If you can trust them with gun, why can’t we with some student who are not in Iraq?.. Yes there is a different between a trained soldier and a college student. The difference can easily negated with adequate training. I never suggested putting the gun in a crazy kid. You do a background check, do a psych evaluation and require training before you put a gun in somebody hand.

Guns don’t kill people. A gun is an inanimate object that cannot do anything itself. Gun in the hands of crazies like Cho kills people. Taking guns away from the hands of responsible, law abiding citizens are not the way to reduce gun crime. All you have to do is look at other countries (UK, Canada, Australia) that implemented gun control. Gun crimes went up when guns went away. Why?, because criminals who intend on doing harm will obtain weapons no matter how much controls there are in place. With gun control all you are doing in leaving law abiding citizens defenseless in a situation.

There are examples of guns actually saving lives… But you would not hear those stories on the Crescent News Network (CNN)

Appalachian School of Law in Grundy, Va
Pearl High School, Pearl, Miss


Whenever I've seen one of those "Gun-free Zone" signs, especially outside of a school filled with our youngest and most vulnerable citizens, I've always wondered exactly who these signs are directed at. Obviously, they don't mean much to the sort of man who murdered 32 people just a few days ago. - Fred Thompson (United States senator from Tennessee)


On lighter note: What a tribute to VT

Thursday, April 19, 2007

Very Sad Wednesday Indeed..

Sanjaya got booted off American Idol and I missed that long awaited moment. I was too busy changing Omie in the Nursery and couldn’t throw my hands in the air and go YES!!! FINALLY!

Weird feeling of the day: “"He's a teenager, and young girls and guys really like him." - AP Really?. How many “young guys” really like Sanjaya?..

By Favorite comment on votefortheworst.com
Listen we were talking about vote for the worst at my Bible class (my teacher is a huge american idol fan) and you people are the spawn of satan. you all are stopping melinda dolitle from a million dolars. she is a wonderfull person who cares about everything like God and Jesus and u people are stopping her from winning. sanjaya is a evil satan worshipper who doesnt beleive in God and he will go to hell JUST LIKE YOU PEOPLE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! SO GO AWAY AND DONT EVER COME BACK.
-GiveMeUrCat


Ooookkkaaaaayy.. Melinda Dolittle is a Christian, so she should win the title?.. HA!. Don’t get me wrong. Dolittle is my favorite singer this year. And I hope she wins. But this is a singing competition, America gets decide who gets to win. If Sanjaya can last this long, there is no way to say who is gonna win.

Wednesday, April 18, 2007

Playboy In Braille ?

Playboy In Braille..

When I heard this on Radio, I was absolutely certain that the host was pulling my leg. So I did what any other useless knowledge seeking guy would do. Goggled “wiki Braille playboy”.

And sure enough, The National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped (NLS) has published a Braille edition of Playboy since 1970. The Braille version includes all the written words in the non-Braille magazine, but no pictorial representations. Congress cut off funding for the Braille magazine translation in 1985, but U.S. District Court Judge Thomas Hogan reversed the decision on First Amendment grounds. -wiki

So in other words, part of your tax money is going to translate playboy and other pervert magazines on first amendment grounds. But you still can’t say God in public. I though free speech and freedom of religion was the same thing.

Tuesday, April 17, 2007

I am just thinking..




Would 30 students die if one of them were carrying a concealed weapon?

Tuesday, April 10, 2007

If some Wicks are Slicks

Then all Slicks are wicks?

If I say Islam and terrorist in one sentence that doesn’t mean I said all Muslims are terrorist. I bet there are a few Muslims that would like the psychos among them to stop killing. But the problem is, there is far too many of the bad guys and too few of the good guys.. case in point: PBS dropped 'Islam vs. Islamists' on political grounds

This film has something to do with the good group of Muslims who want to live a good life and condemn the terrorists. But the liberal media do not want to offend the bad ones and in effect have silence the moderates.

When ever somebody who claims to be a Christian (not everybody who goes to church are Christians) commits a murder and suddenly all Christians are evil. But if I say Islamic terrorist, I automatically implied that all Muslims are terrorist. You must have a pretty narrow mind to think that if I don’t agree with you on one issue, I am evil and everything I say is wrong. Well then again, it is typical liberal strategy.. Any and all topics end up with Bush lied, kids died. And you wonder why this country is going down the tubes..

Thursday, April 05, 2007

The new breed of terrorists... Conservative Christians

At least in the mind of some school officials they are.. Here is the story


A school in NJ stages a hostage taking scenario so they can prepare themselves in a real situation. That’s is fine; Prepare for the worst, hope for the best. right? What ticks me off is the details..

When you hear this, what comes to your mind?
“The scenario has played out in real life across America: Gunfire echoes through a school and students are held hostage”.


I am thinking Columbine, Jihad, Muslim, Fanatic or Islamic extremists. The last thing that comes to mind is this:

“As members of a right-wing fundamentalist group called the “New Crusaders” who don't believe in separation of church and state. The mock gunmen went to the school seeking justice because the daughter of one had been expelled for praying before class”


And get this “We need to practice under conditions as real as possible in order to evaluate our procedures and plans so that they're as effective as possible.”

You want this thing to be as real as possible? Get a bunch of psycho terrorist with bombs wrapped around their waist, take over the school, and force the girls to wear head scarves. Can’t get any more real than that. But no, that will be insulting to the peace loving religion of Islam! If the police had portrayed the real life scenario of gay terrorists or abortion rights activists upset for any contrived reason you would read about it in every major paper across the United States; and rightfully so because IT WOULD BE RIDICULOUSLY STUPID.

No other group in America would tolerate this kind of religious profiling! This is blatant religious hostility toward people of faith. The school district's mock hostage-taking program TARGETED CHRISTIANS as the perpetrators. THIS IS OUTRAGEOUS. And the timing couldn’t be perfect, during lent. It has become acceptable to discriminate against Christians with bigoted characterizations that portray them as gun wielding psycho killers.

I am sick and tired of the media and liberals trying to portray the conservative Christians as a threat to this country. Kids from this school who took part in this scenario went home thinking Christians do take over school and hold kids hostage (remember … under conditions as real as possible…).

Now why would a school purposely portray Christians as the bad guys.. here is my theory..

Members of Teachers Unions runs the schools. Unions are fundamentally democrats/liberals. Just look at their contributions. Christians are more likely conservatives/republicans
Conservatives like school choice for kids and teachers unions hate it. Because it takes power away from the unions and put it in the hands of parents. It also means the teachers will actually have to teach and compete against for the kids. So if you paint the Christians as the real threat, which will make them look good. Young impressionable minds are being wasted in public schools and America just sits back and takes it with out thinking twice! We have already forgotten what happened on 9/11/2001. People flocked to churches in record numbers days after 9/11. But soon, we are all back to our pre 9/11 mind set again because we have not been attacked since. Soon we will write off this tragedy from the history books because we do not want to offend the Muslims. Sadly, the left would prefer an attack by Islamic lunatics who cut off heads rather than have the kids see a crucifix. Liberals would appease to the terrorist rather than standing up and fighting for the freedom of this country.

Tuesday, April 03, 2007

Wednesday, March 21, 2007

Human Ingenuity at its best!

Ever wondered how the Stonehenge was erected 4000 years ago?.. This man thinks he has. But more props to this guy, he actually did it proving it is not just a theory, it is so very doable!.

Monday, March 19, 2007

What is wrong wiht this picture..




A LOT I tell ya!..

The mother is 20 years old; the child is in first grade. That makes the girl getting pregnant at 14!

The law thinks the mother is not old enough to drink responsibly, but old enough to rationalize child bearing?

The kid brings the drug for a “show and tell”. The mother actually thinks the 5 year old is responsible enough to take care of his school work with no attention at home?. Oh wait, we are talking about a 20 year old mother. My bad!.

Kids graduate high school and don’t even know how to spell mirror (true story, this 26 year old girl thought it was spelled “mirrow” because that is the way she pronounce it). And we (at least the teachers union) blame under funded schools for dumbing down America. I say blame (mostly) the parents. To some parents, schools are nothing but government funded day care for their kids. They never pay attention to them, don’t help with their homework, never get to know their teachers or friends. And when 14 year old kids come home pregnant, they wonder where they went wrong!. Then, these teenage mothers raise their kids wanting to be their friends rather than a parent (yes, I did say parent and not parents; show me one responsible married teenage couple and I will delete this post and apologize)

The law says you gotta be 21 to vote
The law says you gotta be 21 to drink

Why isn’t there an age limit to be a parent?

Wednesday, March 14, 2007

My 2 cents on Global Warming

Do I believe global warming is real?
Sure… There is proof that there was an ice age, I am not knee deep in ice, ergo the earth must have warmed up to melt all that ice.

Do I believe global warming significant?
No. Ground-level temperature measurements suggest the earth has warmed between 0.3 and 0.6 degrees Celsius since 1850 (based on 1997 data by NATIONAL CENTER FOR POLICY ANALYSIS. That’s warming. The earth's temperature has increased slightly, but the increase is well within the natural range of known temperature variation over the last 15,000 years.

Is the global warming caused by human activities?
No!. If you look at Vostok-ice-core sample data, you can see that CO2 concentration spiked every 10,000 years or so. The first internal combustion engine was developed (not mass produced) in 1979. The earliest mention of American petroleum occurs not until 1595. Lets us go back as far as the time of Herodotus (~ 500 BC) where something similar to crude oil is mentioned in history. And then take 2500 years of the data from Vostok-ice-core data to take any petroleum based atmospheric emissions out of the equation. You will still see CO2 (one of the main green house gas) went up, the temperature went up and with no human intervention both components came down. We know from the Vostok-ice-core date that the cycle has been continuing for at least four hundred thousand years. So even if we shut down all human progress, stop using all fuel usage, and revert to Stone Age, we will still have global warming.

So why is Global Warming an issue?
Just imagine how much money revolves around global warming. Al Gore’s movie made over $31,478,021 to date. (And he is also nominated for a Nobel Peace Price, Surprised? And what are the chances he is not going to win it among all the scandal on his hypocrisy) On top of that Al gore made millions in speaking engagements & books, and other loyalties. US government spends 400 billion a year on global warming related research and technology and the funding is only going to increase over time. World wide, millions of people depend on war against global warming for their lively hood. If the issue goes away, lot of jobs and money goes with it. It is in their best interest to keep the issue alive for their livelihood. In the process, they make it so that anybody who talk against it is considered evil or in cahoots with the evil oil corporations.

It is easier to believe what we see on TV and not think twice about it. And politicians depends it. Just like a car salesman hates and educated consumer, politicians hate an educated constituent. The great concern of many that we are ruining the planet is nothing but ideology to fatten their pockets. Image a world where people believe in something because they find it to be moral and the right thing to do (hey, a man can dream; can’t he?)

I do know this world is finite. And so are the resources within. If we trash this planet, we will suffer the consequences. Humans are the dominant species on Earth and the most advanced in intelligence and ability to manage their environment. We got where we are by questioning our own believes and transforming those questions into practical theories and workable solutions. But the fact that fewer people ask questions and bother to find the right answers may be the demise of human kind after all.


The Great Global Warming Swindle

Global Warming Myth Lecture CTH Stink Test

Junk Science: Global Warming Myth Busted

Monday, March 05, 2007

Follow the Money, and Ye shall find the truth!

When ever somebody is telling you “Believe Me”, Don’t! Unless it is coming from somebody who has nothing to gain by what ever they are telling you.

Case in Point: Al Gore and Global Warming!

• In the movie “An Inconvenient Truth” Al Gore describes the consequences he believes global climate change will produce if the amount of human-generated greenhouse gases is not significantly reduced in the very near future. The way we are to reduce global warming is reduce our carbon foot print [THE CONVENIENT LIE]

• Recently, after Al Gore won the Oscar for best Documentary, It was reported that Al Gore’s electricity usage was 20 times the national average. [THE MINOR HYPOCRISY]
• It was later reported that Al Gore buys "carbon offsets" to compensate for his home's use of energy from carbon-based fuels. Gore buys his carbon offsets through Generation Investment Management (GIM)[THE MONEY TRAIL BEGINS]

• Turns out Al Gore is the Chairman of the US branch of the firm GIM and makes a profit as the company makes profit. So he is paying him self by purchasing the carbon offsets from a company he chairs. [SHORT MONEY TRAIL ENDS BACK IN GORE’S POCKET]

But the hypocrisy doesn’t end there. GIM was specifically established to take financial advantage of new technologies and solutions related to combating Global Warming [THE MAJOR HYPOCRISY].

Here is scenario: I come to you house and make you believe that your basement will flood and the damage will be irreversible in five months if you do not excavate around the house and water proof your basement now. But don’t worry; there is a company that can do the job for you (Jake’s Basement Repair). If you don’t think it is necessary, here is the list of 20 people that agrees with me. You really don’t have time to think about it, start the work now.

Things are not always obvious. Al-Gore is not dumb. He is a very smart man. He has you, me and the rest of the world trying to invest more money in alternate energy by professing the doom, gloom & Armageddon; while he sits back and enjoy the millions, if not billions in profits from “financial advantage of new technologies and solutions related to combating Global Warming”

Thursday, March 01, 2007


Take that Al-Gore!..

My Energy provider has a web tool I can use to calculate my energy usage at home. And look at that, I pay about $1,100 less in energy cost than most of the similar homes in the area. Your energy provider might have similar tools that you can use to calculate energy usage and tips on how to reduce cost.

If you have not heard, in his documentary (An Inconvenient Truth, collected an Oscar for best documentary feature), the former Vice President calls on Americans to conserve energy by reducing electricity consumption at home. Gore’s mansion, located in the posh Belle Meade area of Nashville, consumes more electricity EVERY MONTH than the average American household uses in an ENTIRE YEAR (In total, Gore paid nearly $30,000 in combined electricity and natural gas bills for his Nashville estate in 2006).

Al Gore’s response is that he buys carbon credits to offset his pollution. Let’s try to apply this logic to a diet. You and I go on a diet, we both buy food, but I buy the food from you and eat twice as much. But that’s okay, because you didn’t eat when I ate your food!.

The Al Gore debacle reminds me of old practice of Catholic Dispensation. Pay a fee to a Priest in The Church Of Global Warming, and continue polluting, free of guilt, without worry of purgatory...

I am in no way an environmentalist and do not buy into the gloom and doom future they predict. When they start accurately predict weather three weeks into the future, I will start paying attention to what they have to say about 30 to 150 years into the future. Until then, to me, this is all a pointless exercise to instill fear in peoples mind.

Do not think I don’t care about the environment. I don’t pour engine oil down the drain or over fertilize my lawn. But I do care more about my bottom line. And I have measures at home to drastically reduce energy bills. For example, our homeowner’s association requires all houses in the development to have two lights outside the garage that go on at sunset and go off in morning. One of the first things I did was to change the 60W incandescent lamps to 13W compact fluorescent lamps. That change alone saved me $34 per year in energy cost. Not to mention the money saved by the extended life on the fluorescent lamps. Change all the interior bulbs, add a programmable thermostat, opt for energy star appliances and voilĂ , upwards of 1k in annual savings.

Calculate how much you can save by switching to fluorescent!

Wednesday, January 31, 2007

First Amendment rights or vandalism?

During last Saturday's Washington rally protesting the war in Iraq, hundreds of anti-war protesters were allowed to desecrate government property by spray painting the Capitol with anarchist symbols.

That is right! “ALLOWED”.

“Chief Phillip Morse ordered his officers to fall back and allow the protesters to exercise what he called "their First Amendment rights" to spray paint the Capitol steps with graffiti.”

Since when is desecration of public property equates to exercising first amendment rights?. And where is the new media coverage?. I bet if this protest was against how the new minimum wage is affecting small businesses, their actions will be on front page an all major news papers. But anything the anti protesters do is fair game, including beating up others who are supporters for the troop in Iraq.

And anybody who would dare question Chief Phillip Morse actions will surely face the wrath of media!

Tuesday, December 19, 2006

Another Day, another Due Date!

Today we received a call from Tracie’s doctor. The C-section have been changed from December 30th to December 29th. That means baby will be here a whole twenty four hours early. That is if the baby decides against coming out early. On 29-DEC, the baby will be 37 weeks and four days old. Can’t wait!

Wait.. I can.. I still have to finish the nursery. I know once the baby is here, that ain’t gonna happen :)

Update: The doctor called yesterday (12/22/06) and the Due date is now Dec. 30th. I get an extra day to prepare for the baby :)

Thursday, December 07, 2006

Free Market at its best!

Yesterday I wrote about government forcing good intentions on the people of NY. I also said if the people are health conscious, restaurants that serve unhealthy food would not survive. Here is the proof
McDonald's forced to shut from lack of patronage in healthy town
McDonald's is closing its outlet in a town known for quality food and healthy, local produce.

The fast food chain in Tavistock, Devon, simply wasn't being used enough by locals.

So after seven years struggling to make ends meet in a town that has won many accolades for the quality of its food, McDonald's will finally shut up shop on Saturday.

John Taylor, chairman of Tavistock EatWise campaign, said: "Because of the quality of our local food McDonald's has not been able to compete."

A McDonald's spokesman said: "As part of an ongoing review of our restaurant sites, it has become clear that the location of McDonald's in Tavistock is no longer suitable."

London, Thursday 07.12.06

Being fat is the byproduct of poor life choices. It is easier to point fingers at the a big business because getting out of the chair to fix their lives might be just too much work.

Wednesday, December 06, 2006

You can still smoke in NY, but no trans fat!




"This is New York," she said. "People eat out a lot. We don't have a choice. We need someone to make it a healthier proposition."

When was the last time you saw anybody forcing people to eat at a specific restaurant or specific menu item?. If New Yorkers are not being force fed, then how is it that they do not have a choice?.

People always have the power to change things. That is the greatest thing about a free society. If you do not like the food a restaurant is serving, do not go there. The only option that restaurant have is to change and compete or shut down. Either way the people win. But today people want the GOVERNMENT to make choices for them.

If the state care about the health of the people so much, why don’t they just ban the sale of smoking products?. That would mean a huge cut in tax revenue; so the state is not ready to do that. The only thing lawmakers care about is votes. There is a bunch of idiots in NY who think government ban on Trans Fat will save them from being fat. Guess what, only you can change you. Stop eating bad stuff, exercise, and stop looking at politicians to make your life better!

If the government let the free market do its job, changes will happen. Wendy's International Inc. introduced a zero-trans fat oil in August; KFC said they will stop using oil with trans fats by April; McDonald's has been testing new oils. All results of demand. The NY law will put small mom & pop shops out of business with increased compliance and sudden change in supply logistics. The sudden increased demand in alternate cooking methods will ramp up the price on supply which in turn increase the price of menu items.

SO who exactly is the winners here?.
-The politicians who made a special interest group happy and now expect increased campaign donations.
-Suppliers who now have an imposed demand on non-trans-fatty cooking oil and can charge what ever they want.
-State treasury which will get higher revenue from the increased prices and fines imposed on people who just can’t comply.

Losers:
-NY’ers who doesn’t have much of a choice but to eat the crap they serve. Can’t complain because they bought it on them self by forcing the restaurants to change ingredients, and have to pay higher price because on the increased demand on certain cooking oil.
-Small businesses that do not have millions of dollars to spend in R&D and focus groups to test the new products or cannot order tons of new formulation and pay a premium for their ingredients.

Thursday, November 30, 2006

The 25 Funniest Analogies

(Supposedly Collected by High School English Teachers).

These are really funny and you will burst out laughing (so don't read this if you are in a meeting or any other place that can get you into trouble. It is rated G so you can share if you do get into a predicament!

I just don't get # 19. My Fav's; 9, 12, & 5 in that order :) Enjoy!

1. Her face was a perfect oval, like a circle that had its two sides gently compressed by a ThighMaster.

2. His thoughts tumbled in his head, making and breaking alliances like underpants in a dryer without Cling Free.

3. He spoke with the wisdom that can only come from experience, like a guy who went blind because he looked at a solar eclipse without one of those boxes with a pinhole in it and now goes around the country speaking at high schools about the dangers of looking at a solar eclipse without one of those boxes with a pinhole in it.

4. She grew on him like she was a colony of E. Coli, and he was room-temperature Canadian beef.

5. She had a deep, throaty, genuine laugh, like that sound a dog makes just before it throws up.

6. Her vocabulary was as bad as, like, whatever.

7. He was as tall as a six-foot, three-inch tree.

8. The revelation that his marriage of 30 years had disintegrated because of his wife’s infidelity came as a rude shock, like a surcharge at a formerly surcharge-free ATM machine.

9. The little boat gently drifted across the pond exactly the way a bowling ball wouldn’t.

10. McBride fell 12 stories, hitting the pavement like a Hefty bag filled with vegetable soup.

11. From the attic came an unearthly howl. The whole scene had an eerie, surreal quality, like when you’re on vacation in another city and Jeopardy comes on at 7:00 p.m. instead of 7:30.

12. Her hair glistened in the rain like a nose hair after a sneeze.

13. The hailstones leaped from the pavement, just like maggots when you fry them in hot grease.

14. Long separated by cruel fate, the star-crossed lovers raced across the grassy field toward each other like two freight trains, one having left Cleveland at 6:36 p.m. traveling at 55 mph, the other from Topeka at 4:19 p.m. at a speed of 35 mph.

15. They lived in a typical suburban neighborhood with picket fences that resembled Nancy Kerrigan’s teeth.

16. John and Mary had never met. They were like two hummingbirds who had also never met.

17. He fell for her like his heart was a mob informant, and she was the East River.

18. Even in his last years, Granddad had a mind like a steel trap, only one that had been left out so long it had rusted shut.

19. Shots rang out, as shots are wont to do.

20. The plan was simple, like my brother-in-law Phil. But unlike Phil, this plan just might work.

21. The young fighter had a hungry look, the kind you get from not eating for a while.

22. He was as lame as a duck. Not the metaphorical lame duck, either, but a real duck that was actually lame, maybe from stepping on a land mine or something.

23. The ballerina rose gracefully en Pointe and extended one slender leg behind her, like a dog at a fire hydrant.

24. It was an American tradition, like fathers chasing kids around with power tools.

25. He was deeply in love. When she spoke, he thought he heard bells, as if she were a garbage truck backing up.

Monday, November 27, 2006

Wow...


That is all I could think when I saw this. Detention for being RIGHT?.

The arrogance of this teacher!. This guy had the nerve to say the student will be “better of simply accepting his teaching with out resistance”.

If you are wrong, you are WRONG. It doesn’t matter if you are being corrected by your student or a four year old. Granted, the teacher was embarrassed in front of his class. But by detaining the kid, he has insulted the entire profession of teaching.

If I were in his place, I would have corrected the wrong information I gave the student, apologized for the mistake, and commend the student for correcting the error. This course of action would create more respect for the teacher and give confidence to the students to speak up.

There are educators that genuinely want to teach and make a difference in a kid’s life; those who marvel in bright students that challenge them and further better themselves. And then there are others, to whom teaching is nothing but a union protected job and do not care about the students. I am so glad I went to school in India. I’ve come across so man great teachers but never realized their excellence. I wish I could go back and thank them individually for their contributions to society. Sad part is, I do not remember a single name but only faces; faces that are fading from my memories fast.

This is an eye opener for me. Now that I am about to have a baby, I can start thinking about things that will better her life when she is all grown up. May be pictures of her teachers with names are worth holding on to.

Wednesday, November 22, 2006

Wal-Mart – Bad for the America, good for Senator Edwards?

While I was driving around in Atlanta, the most talked about news story of the day was about the limited number of PS3 at Wal-Mart and people getting mugged and shot for this unit. As a non-video game player, I really don’t care much about these stories. And I do think people willing go to these lengths do not have their priorities straight. It is no contest that PS3 is very advanced and came a long way from its predecessors, but it is still a video game. $400 dollars for a unit that only provides one mode of entertainment in not worth standing in line out side a Wal-Mart over night, especially there is only ten unit at that store. Kids don’t need another video game, they are too fat. Adults do not need a video game; grow up, get a degree, get a job, buy a house, invest, read a book, take your kids to the playground. This thing is not worth getting shot at.

That brings me to the hypocrite of the day. Some liberal have made a career out of campaigning against non-union labored Wal-mart. Union memberships have been steadily declining since their peak in 1945 and a place like Wal-Mart that employs 1.2 million is an easy target. A group called Wake Up Wal-Mart is demanding the company provide better pay and more health care for its employees. They would love to see the company run to the ground. They did that to all other places they’ve touched. Union labor is nothing but mediocre and have never proved to improve quality of any product. As a matter of fact, unions prevent a company from progression. Just Compare Toyota & GM. Or consider mass transit authorities or airlines. Senator Edwards jumped on the “Hate the corporation” bandwagon with many other liberals. After selling all his stocks on Wal-Mart before the 2004 presidential election Edwards turned against Wal-Mart. However, Mr. Edwards don’t have time to stand in line like the rest of the middle America so he sends one of his staff to get one for him, from a Wal-Mart that is bad for America!

I hate crooked lawyers, I Hate politicians. Edwards is both!

On the lighter side. If you missed the original release of PS3, you can get one from ebay for $20,000,000.00. Now that is what I call a smart buy!.