The Debt Ceiling

So despite what political pundits are saying, I think we have more than exceeded our debt ceiling. If you pile those debts up on top of each other you will not only reach the ceiling and go through the roof, you will probably reach the stratosphere, where space shuttles jettison their booster rockets like our government did it's fiscal common sense about six to seven years ago.

So now we have the President looking for a "big" solution and the opposition looking for an extension. This is mind-numbing street theater of the worst possible type. And in a city known for tragedy at the theater (just ask Mrs. Lincoln), this nonsense has got to stop and some adults need to enter the discussion and fix the mess. We can't be everything to everybody any longer, we can't police the world with our brave armed forces anymore, we can't continue to let 5% of our population carry 60% of the tax burden, and we can't condemn our children's children to a desperate future by not curbing our over generous system of entitlements.

So let's allow Roger Goodell and DeMaurice Smith to take over the negotiations. They have just resolved something much greater than our National Debt- they have nothing to do now that pro football is fixed for 10 years, so why not? Look at it this way - in Congress, when a guy sends dickpix to a woman, they make him resign; while in the NFL, they'll put him in the Hall of Fame, despite his indickscretions. Which is the happier solution? To use the popular political jargon we have been hearing for the last six months, let's stop kicking the can down the road, and let's start kicking the football down the field to fiscal solvency. Nice how it all comes together sometimes, ain't it bro?

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The Casey Anthony FRENZY

I am saddened at the thought of the poor little girl who died, apparently of unknown causes, but I am totally mystified about the 3 year coverage and total immersion by the media into this trial. Am I the lone person in America who thinks this way? Now that this is over, let's pray that people like Nancy Grace and these other courtroom pundits take a real long vacation. I know it won't happen because America seems to be devolving into one big trailer park. Snobby comment, I know. But the fascination people have for low rent, single digit IQ folks who commit these crimes and foul up their surroundings quicker than an untrained puppy is apparently immeasurable.

And there is no safe haven from this Anthony frenzy:

The weather channel is naming a tropical storm Caylee

Sportscenter keeps talking about Casey at the bat

Bloomberg broke into their early morning coverage of the Asian markets with the verdict announcement apparently implying that Apple may now accelerate their development of the Casey Anthony app

And the SyFy channel is promoting Extra Terrestrial involvement in this whole affair

Don't know about you, but I'm headed for the golf course. But my smartphone has been programmed to zap me alerts of any breaking news concerning juror interviews. Beam me up Scotty - not sure what nebula we have entered into.


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Losing My Appetitie

It's only fitting that after the Anthony Weiner scandal there would be a copycat crime - yes my hale and hardy companions on the journey, it's professional hot dog eating! Can there be anything worse than this assault on our culture? These dolts jamming 50-60 tube steaks down their pieholes have got to be stopped. The 4th of July is a great day, one that is rightfully celebrated with baseball, picnics, parades and fireworks. How did rounding up 10-20 of the dumbest, most ignorant people in America and watching them slobber up their faces with crushed weiner, bun and water become part of our great National holiday? Teacher, teacher - I know !!It's because we are becoming so freakin' dumb as a nation, THAT'S WHY.

A recent study showed that @16 per cent of our kids knew who Abraham Lincoln was.No big deal - they probably know all about Joey Chestnut. What the hell is going on around here? The morons who produce and sell this junk to America via TV are making us stupider than we have a right to be. The epidemic of reality TV is to blame for most of this phenomenon - the TV folks realized how stupid we are becoming and decided to just give us more of the same slop on almost every channel, network or cable. They are happy that people tune in religiously to this aimless, mindless drivel because it becomes just a big cycle after all - the more junk they produce, the more people watch and the more that they watch, the bigger their appetite for dopey, cheap and garbage TV becomes. The guy who called TV a "vast wasteland" was clairvoyant because he had no idea how bad it would become; he probably thought having a hot dog on the 4th of July was a good thing. Leave it to Joey Chestnut and his ilk and Junk TV executives to make eating a hot dog appear so unappetizing - unless of course you are about to appear on The Biggest Loser.

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Greece The Skids

So the European Union has agreed to cough up 17 billion to help Greece from going bankrupt. There will be more billions needed in September to keep the country afloat and the other European countries will probably swallow hard and give it to them. Yet the newscast is full of idiots in the streets of Athens rioting with police and causing mayhem. As Desi Arnaz used to say to Lucille Ball, "'Splain it to me Luci."

I know that there will be cuts to salaries and benefits of civil servants and that government functions will need to be reduced under a new austere budget, but can anyone articulate alternatives? Would the morons with the masks in the streets prefer that the entire country go bankrupt and that civil servants be fired and government functions totally eliminated? Can these be the descendants of Pericles, Socrates and Hippocrates? Or are they distant cousins of Moe, Larry and Curly?
The behavior indicates the latter lineage. Hopefully the populace at large will understand that austerity is necessarily the way forward and that Zeus will not be arriving anytime soon to rain down gold coins into the Hellenic treasury.

In the meantime, can someone call up a legion of Spartans to quell the stooges in the street before they destroy the place. The poor Athenian police appear to be woefully overmatched at this point. This entire episode, much like the takeover of the State Capitol in Wisconsin, is totally Greek to me.

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A Few Things I Hope To Ask God Someday

I try to keep in perspective how lucky we are to live in this country and to be afforded the blessings and freedom which we all share. And it's all because of God. He must be terrific. Look at all of the stuff he created and look at all that he puts up with. He has been very generous to me and my family and has tolerated a lot from yours truly over the years. And yet I'm like mostly everybody else; I am still asking for stuff and not totally satisfied with the what I have. Good thing he doesn't take it personally. Probably just watches the circus and says to himself,
"I should have known". But that's the whole point, isn't it? He did know. And so if I ever get to see him face to face, there are more than a few questions I have got to pose to him. The list could go on for pages, so consider this the short list of icebreaker questions:

How did Hitler get through quality control? I know you are too busy to inspect all of your creations, but shouldn't some department head roll because of that?

What's up with the irony of good food vs. bad food? You could have made beer, chocolate and potato chips healthy foods and stuck cauliflower and brussel sprouts in the junk column. I'm just saying!

Why don't you like Haitians?

Could you have made the holes on a golf green 6" wide instead of 4"?

Was Keith Olberman really necessary?

Explain gnats to me.

Can you stop with the Tornadoes please.
With all due respect if you want to see the awesome power of your creations once in a while, you might consider a ride in a Porsche on the Autobahn.

Do we get a day off from purgatory every time our wives use a credit card? Is there some redeeming value associated with endless spending of which we mortals are unaware?

And lastly, for now, is the good thief really up there with you?



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Anthony's Weiner

Well, Well, Well - the guy who said you can't make this up was grossly underestimating this situation. The unbelievably arrogant and cocky Mr. Weiner admits to bombarding cyberspace with photos of his Oscar Mayer and then tearfully apologizes, while insisting he should not have to resign. I guess he figures that as long as his little Anthony can stay on his feet, so should he.

And under the dome where the largest collection of hypocrites, liars and self-absorbed cretans roams the halls, can it be long until there are more disclosures of similar tweets and facebook photos. This may be the tip of the iceberg, if you catch my drift, with these potential coming attractions as sequels to Anthony's Weiner:

Harry's Reid
John's Boehner
Barney's Frank

And if the epidemic spreads to the female side you could be looking at:

Nancy's Pelosi for God sake.

No, No, No sunshine, you can't make it up. Anthony's Weiner is something not to relish, but to be covered up again; this time with mustard.

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Dumbpires

I have watched this fiasco continue long enough - time to fix the issue of balls and strikes in MLB. If you are a fan and watch a lot of games on TV, you can't help but notice the absolutely indiscriminate, inconsistent strike zone that umpires have. It's crazy and it's unfair and it's wrongheaded to let this continue. Let the arrogant morons call plays at the plate, foul balls and other less frequent issues like interference, but take away their ball and strike calling. The technology we see every day on TV can be used to fairly decide if a pitch is in the strike zone.

There are idiots with Grand Canyon egos like Joe West and Jim Joyce calling stuff all over the place as strikes, and missing meat right down the middle - and God help you if a player takes issue with these blind bastards because he'll be lathering up with his favorite shower lotion quicker than you can say "Dove for Men". These guys ought to go on an Apprentice episode for arrogant assholes because they would never be fired.

And then the announcers, so they don't tee these guys off say things like,"well just
as long as he is consistent with that inside call it's OK". No! It's not OK! FIX IT!
They can't do what technology can - there will be no question, the game will be faster, fairer and that's what the sport needs. These blind guys can take away a championship that a team worked all year to earn with awful calls in an important game.

So Mr. Selig and MLB, fix the game - get some technology out there to give the pitchers and batters a fair shake. If you don't do something soon, we're going to unleash Earl Weaver on you and let him turn his hat around and spit in your face as he throws a tantrum. Now that's baseball.

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