And We're Under Way

If you are one of the four people that read this site, you probably know that I am the biggest Penn St. football fan in the state of NY.

The Lions beat the snot out of the Chanticleers of Coastal Carolina
In what will probably the last season for Joe Paterno as the head coach of Penn State, the Lions have started well. The real test will be in a few weeks when the Big Ten schedule begins.

Ohio State is the hot pick to win the Big Ten this year in a "down" year for the conference. I, however believe that the Lions are going to suprise some teams this year. They have an experienced O-line and first year QB Daryll Clark has to be an improvement on Anthony Morelli, the man I blame for the present state of my hairline.

Clark reminds me a lot of former PSU QB Michael Robinson, and not just because he happens to be black. Robinson was atheletic enough to make up for the play-calling ineptitudes of Joe Paterno's moron son Jay.

I will be sad to see Paterno go, but I am looking forward to starting a new era of PSU football. Rutger's head coach Greg Schiano will look great in Blue and White.

They are still the best Uni's in sports.

Better Than I Could Say

Here are all the questions I want anwered about the GILF

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jane-smiley/make-her-whine_b_122648.html

I have spent a lot of time making light about this choice in the last 24 hours, this is a really serious thing, this woman could easily be the next president of the US.

John McCain Likes the GILF's Ass

McCain can't take his eyes off of her ass. Dude, you are on national TV, and Cindy is watching. Not that it has ever stopped his wandering before.

I have said from the beginning that McCain's campaign felt like an outtake from from "This is Spinal Tap", it's like he has been trying to crank it up to 11 for months.

The McCain campaign has been so over the top at times it has been hard to take it seriously. Especially when he pulls that yellow toothed smile and creepy giggle in front of a rediculously green screen.

I can just see it now....

McCain: "Sarah, I need you to help me with my conservative credentials, James Dobson and Rush keep saying I am a flip-flopper"

The GILF: "Sure John, I hate Polar Bears, think Rape Victims should be forced to bare the children of their attackers, I think that Global Warming is Not man made, I think we should Drill, Drill, Drill in ANWAR, and my husband who is on the BP payroll agrees, I think we should teach FICTION in science classes, but....um John, my eyes are up here"

McBush: "Sorry, GILF, I just love women half my age"

The GILF

I am somewhere between speechlessness with excitement, and being just plain dumbfounded.

72-year old, John McCain who is a hard sneeze away from 6 feet under just selected a 44-year old former beauty queen, who 18 months ago was the mayor of a town with a population of 9,000 as his running mate.

He might as well have chosen Cindy McCain. As a matter of fact, Cindy might want to start spending some more time keeping an eye on her wandering husband. It seems like every 30 or 40 years Exxon McCain dumbs his current wifey for a former beauty queen half his age. (of course he usually waits until they are suffering from a disability before he runs out on them, is Cindy's drug addiction a disability?)

I am sort of dumbfounded.

The best attack the McSame camp has been able to muster against Obama has been his appearant lack of experience.

Their second best attack has been that the American people don't really know Barack.

Well....

Throw those two lines of attack out the window.

John McCain just placed a 44-year old woman with 18 months of executive experience in the great state of Alaska an instant from the most important job in the world.

WTF.

I guess that his hope was that a woman on the ticket would help pull off some of the disenchanted Hillary Clinton supporters.

This is making two large assumptions.

First, that former Clinton supporters didn't watch his speech last night and realize that although their choice of candidates did not win, it was never really about Hillary and Barack, it is about voting on issues, and a quick check of Sarah Palin's record shows that she is Pro-life, anti-gay marriage and a staunch supporter of the 5th amendment.

Not only is she Anti-Abortion, she is against the use of the morning after pill for rape victims and victims of incest.

Secondly, she is assuming that Women voters are going to support this choice in large enough numbers, regardless of their stance on the above stated issues. What he failed to see is that Palin does nothing to bring new people to the Republican side of the ticket, she is a hard-line right wing conservative, winning the 25% of the population that still supports Bush is not going win on November 4th.

I have to think that McCain made the absolute worst choice here. If it were to be a woman, why not Condi, or Kay Baley Huchinson, or Olympia Snow, seriously What the Fuck?

Joe Biden is going to chew this woman up and spit her out, he is actually going to have to take it easy on her in a debate, or risk coming off too harsh.

I just don't get this.

After watching last nights performance by Obama, watching Palin's speech today looked like the Prom Queen accepting her crown.

I don't mean to be demeaning, but the woman has as much foreign policy experience as I do.

Barack Obama

I am still digesting what I watched last night. I was moved to tears a few times. I cannot help watching Barack, Michelle and their daughter's on the stage without welling up. They are just such a beautiful family.

I am sure the right wing is going to start ripping this speech apart (as they already have, calling him angry and bitter). What I saw last night was a speech that moved Pat Buchannon to speechlessness.

What I saw, was the next president of the United States of America.

I saw a man who answered every question about his ability to lead. He was strong, he was forceful, he was funny, he was serious. He gave real answers to what his economic plan is. He laid out specifics about what he plans to do, without turning the speech into an hour of policy.

He was on the offensive against McBush. He hit him and he hit him hard. The genius of his speech was that he turned McCain's proposed strengths into weaknesses. He attacked him on foreign policy, he attacked him on experience. These are the two main threads that McCain has based his candidacy on, and Obama through them back into his face as weaknesses.

I could not help but think of "The America President"

The Audacity of Hope

From the 2004 Democratic National Convention

This was the first time I laid eyes on this skinny man with the funny name, how far have we come?

"I Have a Dream"

As a student of history, as a father, as an American, I am so proud tonight:

"It's Killing a lot of Birds"

I am very interested in the arguements for and against the use of wind turbines as a source of securing renewable energy.

I am, probably obviously, very much in favor of wind energy and if my property was big enough I would gladly be leasing my land for wind turbines.

I am started doing some research, I hate not knowing the arguments for and against something. I want to be able to argue with facts, not hearsay or anecdotal myths.

I will be writing more about this in the future. I have a close personal source on the front line of this battle.

This week I am kind of consumed by the Democratic Convention and the start of my semester.

But to this point the two major arguments I have been able to find against wind turbies are:

They are loud.

and

They kill a lot of birds.

If that is all I have to argue against, it's not going to be much of a fight.

Kucinich from Yesterday

I am a huge Dennis Kucinich fan. I think the man would be wonderful in a position where he could execute real change.

It's too bad that he is mocked for his appearance, or some of the off the cuff things that he says, because the majority of my personal politics fall directly in line with Kucinich's

Text from Senator Clinton's Speech

I want you to ask yourselves: Were you in this campaign just for me? Or were you in it for that young Marine and others like him? Were you in it for that mom struggling with cancer while raising her kids? Were you in it for that boy and his mom surviving on the minimum wage? Were you in it for all the people in this country who feel invisible?

John McCain says the economy is fundamentally sound. John McCain doesn't think that 47 million people without health insurance is a crisis. John McCain wants to privatize Social Security. And in 2008, he still thinks it's okay when women don't earn equal pay for equal work.

With an agenda like that, it makes sense that George Bush and John McCain will be together next week in the Twin Cities. Because these days they're awfully hard to tell apart.


This part brought me to tears just reading it...let alone hearing it.

My mother was born before women could vote. But in this election my daughter got to vote for her mother for President.

This is the story of America. Of women and men who defy the odds and never give up.

How do we give this country back to them?

By following the example of a brave New Yorker , a woman who risked her life to shepherd slaves along the Underground Railroad.

And on that path to freedom, Harriett Tubman had one piece of advice.

If you hear the dogs, keep going.

If you see the torches in the woods, keep going.

If they're shouting after you, keep going.

Don't ever stop. Keep going.

If you want a taste of freedom, keep going.

Even in the darkest of moments, ordinary Americans have found the faith to keep going.