Whether Democrat or Republican, I think you’ll get a kick out of this!

A little boy goes to his dad and asks, “What is Politics?”

Dad says, “Well son, let me try to explain it this way:

I am the head of the family, so call me The President.

Your mother is the administrator of the money, so we call her the Government.

We are here to take care of your needs, so we will call you the People.

The nanny, we will consider her the Working Class.

And your baby brother, we will call him the Future.

Now think about that and see if it makes sense.”

So the little boy goes off to bed thinking about what Dad has said.

Later that night, he hears his baby brother crying, so he gets up to

Check on him .

He finds that the baby has severely soiled his diaper.

So the little boy goes to his parent’s room and finds his mother asleep.

Not wanting to wake her, he goes to the nanny’s room. Finding the door

Locked, he peeks in the keyhole and sees his father in bed with the nanny.

He gives up and goes back to bed

The next morning, the little boy says to his father, “Dad, I think I understand the concept of politics now. “

The father says, “Good, son, tell me in your own words what you think

Politics is all about.”

The little boy replies, “The President is screwing the Working Class

While the Government is sound asleep. The People are being ignored and the Future is in deep shit.”

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So how’s everyone’s New Year been going? My life has been packed full of new experiences and fun times. As I mentioned before, I am trying to do things that I shunned in the past. Recently, I had the opportunity to shoot some guns. Yes, I practiced my 2^nd Amendment right as an American (or something like that). Originally, I had no real desire to ever shoot a gun, but now I do have a new found appreciation for them. My friend and his uncle brought me to a firing range and I got to fire a plethora of hand guns and some pretty awesome WWII rifles (and yes I did say plethora). Not many people get to fire some of the weapons I fired; which is pretty cool in my book.

At first, I fired a hand gun which made me extremely nervous. I fired the whole round and gave back the gun to my friend (barrel away from my friend of course). After he wiped off the large amount of sweat from the handle, he gave me another revolver. The first gun was honestly drenched in sweat because I was so nervous. The second round went much better. I was a lot more accurate and the gun had a lot less sweat after I was done with it. The rifles came out last and concluded my day. Overall, the experience was a lot of fun and I understand why people go to gun ranges. Sometimes acting like Rambo (in a totally non-violent way) can be a lot of fun. No one got hurt unless you count the paper targets I shot at. It looked a lot like Swiss cheese after I was done with it! Nice…..

What did this situation teach me about life? First, I learned that new experiences can make you extremely nervous. But giving it some time and allowing it to sink in, can really make the whole thing a lot of fun. Some things that you previously made a negative judgment on could be something you end up loving. This is the mentality you should have with every type of life experience. Remember that each day comes bearing its gifts. Untie the ribbons.

You can live your life avoiding all of life’s little surprises or you can ask for seconds. In a time where the news only has negative things to report (I know, when did they ever report anything positive), this is the time to have a lot of positive things going on in your life. Surround yourself with people that bring you joy and promote a positive lifestyle. Try to experience new things as much as possible and always try to draw a positive conclusion. For instance, I had a horrible time when I first moved to Orlando, but the story that came from it is priceless.

Life is a combination of the good and the bad. People have the choice to either take in the good and disregard the bad, or take in the bad and disregard the good. It’s your choice, but it’s a lot sunnier on the good side. It’s a pretty amazing thing when you look at life with a positive mentality. Why don’t you try it today? You have nothing to lose and everything to gain. Always try to do something that not many people have gotten to do before. But remember, keep it safe and legal!

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With the New Year approaching rapidly, it’s time to prepare some rough goals for 2008. Mostly the stuff you didn’t really accomplish in 2007. With so many life changing moments that happened at the last quarter of this year, I really need to set the bar back up so I can live life to my fullest potential. I am starting to realize that life shouldn’t be as serious as most people try to make it out to be. When life throws you a curve ball, you still have to try to hit it as hard as you can even if you miss.

My goals for 2008 consist of doing everything that I was ever negative about in my life. For instance, I used to hate beer, but I’ve realized that I actually like some types of beers. You can’t judge things and activities before you actually try them out. I was notorious for doing this, but not anymore. This year my biggest goal is being much less judgmental in every aspect of my life. I need to look at every opportunity as a gift and seize the moment every day of my life. You need to learn how to use the power of “The Now.”

I need to experience all of life’s experience with open arms so I can actually create my own opinions. You can learn from other people’s mistakes, but it doesn’t mean you have to avoid the same scenarios. My best advice for 2008 is: try everything and have a good time doing it. Avoid being negative and try to always have a smile on your face. Try to listen to people instead of talking. Avoid judging and keep an open mind. Everyone knows that a negative, close minded person can ruin the party, so do the complete opposite.

This year your life can be different if you just allow yourself to enjoy every moment. Don’t take things for granted, love like you have never loved, and enjoy life like you just won the lotto. If you learn to create light in your life, even the darkest times will seem bright. Find the best in people and you will find the best in yourself.

I am going to make this year kick ass, so please join me in welcoming the New Year. I will list some of the activities I WILL accomplish this year and how the experience influenced my life. Remember to do it big and keep it real.

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

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Back from a fine weekend and a 7 goal performance in pick-up hockey in Hiram. Cannot go wrong there. Our first item of the week comes from RedState.com. No matter your politics, put them aside for a moment and just enjoy a funny campaign ad from Mike Huckabee, former Governor of Arkansas and presidential candidate.

http://www.redstate.com/stories/elections/2008/insanely_good_huckabee_ad

Message to presidential candidates, make sure your ads are Chuck Norris Approved…or the fist behind the beard will take care of business.

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What do you do when life brings you down? Is there a sure fire way of picking up the pieces after everything breaks? Well, it seems that the market doesn’t want you to move on without going through some rough times. Another down day after a dreadful week of trading can really be hard on people. Especially when you own E*Trade (ETFC) like I do. The stock went down almost 60% in one day after getting the boot from an analyst at Citi (C). I think it’s ironic that Citi can make E*Trade decrease in value by 60% because of a “sell” rating regarding their mortgage segment Yet, Citi only goes down 5% after losing 11 billion dollars!! The market is pretty damn weird.

This is a rough time for me right now, but I need to keep my little chin up. I finally land a job, but I had to relocate to Orlando. I also recently got the “we need space” conversation with my now ex-girlfriend of four years (two months ago now). Yes, the girlfriend that made the beautiful header for this website. E*Trade is down 70% since I purchased it and Nintendo is only returning 34% which is a drop from my 55% gain. After two weeks of living in Florida, I ended up having to relocate again because of roommate issues which I can’t really talk about on this site (lots of rated-R material). I also had to leave my dog with my parents because I couldn’t bring him along with me. My job is 50% travel so I can’t really take care of my son Deuce man.

I guess my new life is a mess, but sometimes being on the ground floor isn’t that bad. I now have the ability to wait everything out. Like the market, life fluctuates up and down. But in the long run you will usually end up on top. One thing that I’ve learned from my whole experience is time heals the damage, but people still need to persevere to win. You can’t always sit in the backseat and expect the car to drive itself. When life gives you lemons, make some lemonade. Make the best out of the situation that life gives to you and you will ultimately succeed.

Should I just complain that my life isn’t what it used to be or should I try to give life the best I got? I think I am going to start trying option two. Giving up and complaining admits defeat. I just need to pick up the pieces that are left and run full speed ahead. Because, as we all know, I will ultimately have a positive return on life and in the stock market.

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Now that I am finally done with school, my life has had a lot of BIG changes. Here are just a few things that I’ve experienced in the past month.

1. Graduating college. Sweet!
2. Paying for my own health insurance
3. Paying for my own car insurance
4.Purchased a car (with a loan, not with cash. I’m not that rich yet. Little joke.)
5.Invested some money. I purchased shares of Apple (Yeah, I’m jumping on the bandwagon) and Diageo.
6.And the big one. Got a new job.

The new job thing is huge. I decided to turn down some pretty good entry-level positions to try out the whole entrepreneur thing first. My father hooked me up with a local business owner to start up a few programs that I developed to increase her profitability. If the whole thing goes the way I think it will, my shares in the company will be pretty good. I finally get to have an influence (that I can actually see) on a daily basis. Every single job that I’ve held throughout my college career was pretty much pointless. I always had to listen to management even though they were completely wrong (at least that’s what most of my college textbooks said).This is the first job that I get to call the shots.I’m going to update everyone on my progress as the weeks go on.

Because I’m working for a small business (20 employees), I have to pay for my own private health insurance. I decided to go with Kaiser Permanente for low rates and the medical center is right by my house. It’s costing me $67 a month, which is a pretty reasonable rate for a man my age. It covers all the good stuff, but has a higher deductible.

Another huge financial event in my life was the purchase of my new/used car. My mother was in a small accident that ended up ruining her car for good (she wasn’t hurt). My parents and I decided that she would take my car and that I would purchase a new one. After so many hours of shopping online and visiting car dealers, I decided to buy a 2004 Honda Accord EX (IT HAS NAVIAGATION. SWEET!!) It set me back a good amount of money, but it will only cost me $300 bucks a month for five years. Hopefully, I will be able to pay it off way before the actually deadline so I won’t have to pay interest on a depreciating item.

A lot of new events will be unfolding in the next few months. When I get some time to sit back and write, I will be writing on a consistent basis. My life seems much more level now and I’ll be able to take the time and write about personal finance and politics again. I have to thank my co-writer Dave for helping me out with some wonderful political and social ranting. Thanks again for bearing with me during the past two months.

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After a few days of moving into a new place, I have a few spare seconds to throw some thoughts on global warming out there. Is it happening? Yes. Is it 100% human caused? No. Alarmist and politically motivated? Absolutely!

Most of the global warming fears out there I see as a whipped up by fanatics or people with an interest in either:
A) Running for public office on an issue that they know will make them look like a compassionate good guy, while at the same time praying on the ignorance and boob-tube addiction of the American people (i.e. Al Gore).
B) The swift demise of the American economic machine (i.e. old school socialists and “progressives”).

I remember having a book given to me in elemenatry school called “50 Ways Kids Can Save the Environment” or some nonsense like that. It was basically and indoctrination book into the Church of Global Warming….excuse me, Global Climate Change. I recall even as a youngster wondering what all the fuss was, why there was a hurried, fanatic pace to limit environmental effects at that time. Where was it before–and it disappeared after. Looking back in copyrights and in recollection, it was late 1991, early 1992 — the middle of the 1992 presidential campaign. And those crazed concerns have disappeared until last year when Al Gore turned a slideshow into a self-serving “documentary”.

Look, I have no issue with trying to preserve the environment more effectively. None at all. If anything, I am more in favor of environmental controls than most with my economic and social beliefs. HOWEVER…why now? What spawned this? Why is the urgency here now? I think that some of the ideas being put out there are for dramatic TV news effect. I think Al Gore is going to run for president and is using this very serious issue to boost poll numbers. I think that this is a time in which alarmists are seizing on the ignorance of the public and the inability and unwillingness of people to do some of their own damn research on a subject.

Here is an interesting article looking at “faith-based” global warming, by an esteemed MIT meteorologist:

To close, I hope this inspires some thoughts and talk. I say, as I always do, be leary of what you see on TV or in the news. Get things from multiple sources. While Al Gore may say that we are at an irreversible point and that now is critical and we have to pass legislation that will cripple our manufacturing and other economic capacities, science points to otherwise. Many, many, many scientists who have dedicated their lives to climate research dissent and call the Gore-types alarmist, as do I. I believe scientists, not politicians. I urge you all to do the same. Regardless of your views, I hope that you find the article linked to above interesting none the less.

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**Disclaimer: no matter what you read into this, I am not a proponent of police brutality or the 1984 state. In fact, I would like to see this silly war on drugs go away. I just cannot stand the pastime of race pimping. Plus I really feel for the Junniers.**

Someone explain this to me. Remember the old woman whose house was raided for drugs on a bad tip that was killed by officers in Atlanta back in November? Remember the outrage that how dare do narcotics officers do their job? Screw them all. I am so furious that three officers were indicted on admittedly fluffed up charges — it is sickening. Al “douchebag” Sharpton and his deliciously unimportant, attention-whoring associate “The Reverend” Markel Hutchins were able to take down another white person (three) and cops at that. What an accomplishment.

Look, I am not negating this woman’s death. It was unnecessary, tragic, and downright sad. But hindsight is absolute. Let’s take a look at this through the eyes of the cops along the timeline. First, they arrest a guy who gives an address (fake of course), where he scored coke. He obviously did this to get some sort of preferential treatment, as this was naturally a multiple offense situation. They then contact a past informant and obtain the no-knock warrant based on this information. Keep in mind that at this point they have NO CLUE that this is not a drug house and that some old woman lives there.

Then they serve the warrant. They have to take off bars to get in, which is fine and dandy under the no-knock. Hell, they made noise, which startled this woman bless her heart and she got the gun she owned and started firing, hitting the cops multiple times, one man I know definitively at least 3 times. Again, keep in mind, that there is NO WAY IN HELL they know it is a 92 year old woman firing the shots and not a druglord protecting his stash. Even under the pansy UN rules, they cops can and do return fire, killing the woman. Only then do they find out that it was an elderly woman firing at them and that there were no drugs, computers, or cash in the house. Naturally, all the narc cops are put on administrative leave, as is customary and correct. However, this case and investigation takes a fun twist when the informant, a convicted felon and drug dealer mind you, runs from custody screaming that the police told him to lie. Hold the phone, who you gonna believe, a bunch of generally good cops or the slimeball of a felon? That’s yours to decide, but I believe the cops.

For this hindsight examination, the cops are going to jail (I know two have copped pleas, but the nature of which I’m not sure right now). They did what they are told to and trained to do, based on bad info and now they are going to jail for felony murder. I have heard one report say that the senior officer, a man with whom my family is acquainted with, closely at one time, Gregg Junnier will do 12 years minimum. Boy I hope that isn’t true. This guy is a good man, a family man with two great kids and a strong wife. He was a narc cop for many years and is now being thrown under the bus for the sake of the race pimps.

This woman didn’t have to die. It was a tragic mistake. However, should a police officer with a clean record and two kids have to pay with 12 years of federal prison time for a mistake that, while he led the team, he did not personally falsify any documents, he did not lie to investigators, he has cooperated at all times? I think this is a price too high.

What kind of world are we letting these shitheads create? This is my very emotional, tainted view. I will not argue these points.
1) Al Sharpton and Markel Hutchins have sacrificed a good man and a good cop at the alter of race.
2) Al Sharpton and Markel Hutchins took advantage of a sorry, awful situation for their own gain, to get their names in the paper, to help pay the bills.
3) Two great kids and a dedicated wife will miss their father for possibly 12 years not only because of a mistake (which by the way he and his team should be punished for, but not with felony murder), but I believe because he was born a white man. Because he is a white cop.
4)People like Al Sharpton and Markel Hutchins are creating a greater race problem in this country than they are helping. They are bullies who use race as a method of suppressing others. The fact that the word Reverend is in front of their names is a disgrace.
5) The media eats it up because of who is involved. Realize that while one woman is unnecessarily dead here, there are at least 7 lives that are changed forever (I cannot speak about the other cops families, just the one I am familiar with). I firmly believe that had this been a white woman, no one would have said a word.
6) I cannot believe that hindsight has indicted these men.
7) We are letting demagogues like Al Sharpton, Markel Hutchins, and Jesse Jackson shape public policy and influence public reaction.
The public believes what they are told to believe through the media. The media is tainted, the public is blind.

A final thought and another shot at race pimps. My roommate has a sticker in her room that says “Erasism”, referring to the desire to erase racism. How can we become color blind when it is referred to on a daily basis? How many “xxxx History Months” are there? How many times is someone the first xxxx person to do something? How many times have “reverends” paraded out victims of some “atrocity” and “obvious act of blantant racism”? This is what has to stop. I commend Al Sharpton for fighting for what they feel to be a worthy cause. However, instead of actually doing something useful, they pimp it for attention and defame the names of many times non-racist, normal people. Martin Luther King was a civil rights leader. Hosea Williams was a civil rights leader. Al Sharpton is a race thug in a reverend’s body. Stop giving these guys attentions gets us closer to “erasism”.

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(The grandest of all race hustlers. In my view, according to Websters dictionary, he has incited more racism that many modern white people could ever muster.)

Well, I have been avoiding this story all week in my playoff excitement, but I feel it has to be addressed. Don Imus. Who is this guy. Why have I been a hardcore political follower and blogger for almost 7 years and never heard of this guy? My impressions upon research (never trust the media, you know)—he is a dimwitted, cynical old man who makes bad, race-based, orientation-based jokes.

For those of you who don’t know, my impression is that Don Imus was a primarily liberal talk show host (probably why I never heard of him) who called the girls on the Rutgers’ basketball team “some nappy-headed hoes”. That’s the bad joke. For this, however, the man lost his job. HE LOST HIS F@#$IN’ JOB!!

Let me say that again: HE LOST HIS JOB!!
HE LOST HIS JOB!!
HE LOST HIS JOB!!

Are you kidding me? The man lost his job for doing his job, which, whether you realize it or not, is to vocalized every thought that comes to his mind. Deplorable, disgusting, disheartening, yes. Grounds for termination, no. Both MSNBC and CBS caved to the pressure of race pimp grande, Al Sharpton. Further showing what an idiot Imus is, he went on Sharpton’s radio show and grovelled for forgiveness. Naturally, this wasn’t enough. He needed to be eliminated. The MTP (Morality and Thought Police) and the chief is the riot inciting, douchebag of a “black leader” that is Al Sharpton.

Everyone should be pissed about this. What says you are not next. Next time you have an intemperate thought, who says you are not next. Where will it stop? And a greater, more currently pertinent question, when the f*** did Al f****in’ Sharpton become the grand pumba of what is right and appropriate to be broadcast on the airwaves (can you sense my disgust for this pissant of a man, someone who benefits from others misery)?

Ah, I can’t even get my thoughts together on this one. Bottom line:
1) Don Imus is an idiot, senile old man — not a racist or sexist. He is a bad joke composer.
2) Al Sharpton is a scourge to African-Americans and is, in general, a complete race pimping douche.
3) We are all next. Maybe not today or tomorrow, but soon. Political correctness is sucking the soul out of society. The precedent has been set. It is not publicly acceptable to be fired for saying something that “offends” or is disagreeable to someone. WE ARE NEXT. It’s the old trickle down effect. It works in economics, and it will work socially, unfortunately.

By the way, this is education time. Next time you hear some idiot bantering around racist, sexist, etc., use 2nd grade skills and think of the definitions. These are from the source, Merriam-Webster. Don’t belive me, look at it for yourself.

Racist:
1 : a belief that race is the primary determinant of human traits and capacities and that racial differences produce an inherent superiority of a particular race.

Sexist:
1 : prejudice or discrimination based on sex; especially : discrimination against women
2 : behavior, conditions, or attitudes that foster stereotypes of social roles based on sex

I say that in no way was Don Imus a racist based on that definition (after all the team wasn’t all black and the condition of the ladies hair certainly doesn’t presume they are inferior), but he may be sexist in this comment. Just remember that we cannot overarch and make a generalization on his character based on one intemperate thought.

What do you think?

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I know it’s been a long time since I wrote anything, but don’t be in despair. I am currently studying and writing papers for graduation. I am unfortunately unable to update my site because of the demanding schedule. I cannot wait till I get to graduate and have my life back again! I know everyone goes through these moments in life and that’s what keeps me going. My last assignments will be turned in the last week of April. The day I turn in my last assignment I will be able to spit out a ton of articles (after a good night of partying ) I have some real good debate topics coming up such as: socialization of medicine and my proposal to actually increase taxes. Yes, I said it. Increase taxes! WOW! It will all make sense soon. Thanks for the continued support through this extremely demanding semester.

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