New Prez

Word up to our new prez, Mr. BARACK!

Seriously, you gave a good speech, and we all know that the 'flub' of the oath was really just you taking in the moment (which would have been huge for anyone).

Congratulations are definitely in order, although I'm sure a lot of press time in the next week is going to go to Lowery's words:

“We ask you to help us work for that day when black will not be asked to give back, when brown can stick around, when yellow will be mellow, when the red man can get ahead, man, and when white will embrace what is right,” Lowery prayed.

Of course we as white people should and will embrace what is right, just like everyone else :).

Communism

So after my favorite presidential candidate Mike Huckabee dropped out of the race, I found myself supporting Barack Obama for president.


I know our economy needs (or thinks it needs) stimulating, but doesn't spending a trillion dollars of deficit for the foreseeable future kind of make you think we live in a Quote-unquote Communist state, however unofficially? Giving these amounts of money to the entire nation certainly does seem like a re-distribution of wealth, especially when it is happening pre-emptively.

Oh well.

Nice kidneys, can I touch them?

I'm sure some of you have heard about this, where a man is trying to get his divorcing wife to settle $1.5 million for a kidney he donated to her a few years ago.

I see a different angle on this. I know that in China and other shady places around the globe, people can go to sleep one day, and wake up the next in a bathtub with a few of their organs removed, while certain people collect the profits. What I think this may lead to is Chinese (or other place) mail-order brides, who come over to the United States at the behest of some really rich single person in need of an organ, donate it to that person, and then collect their fee in the divorce through a big hush-hush settlement. Scary future...

2nd Amendment

This past fall I decided that it was time for me to join the ranks of those permitted to bear arms. In Illinois, state law dictates that you must possess a FOID card in order to purchase a firearm. I applied for mine back in September, and recently received it. I also attended and passed hunter's safety (50 hicks and me out in New Baden, IL, most of them under the age of 13).

I purchased a firearm to make my home safer (argue what you may), but now it seems like even the elderly are able to do that, but this time, via a prescription from their doctor. I'm sorry, but this is pretty scary, and even makes me upset somewhat that insurance can be used for that purpose.

Happy Thursday :).