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.

Reactions to Last Night

Olbermann's Reaction


And Maddow's

Hillary Clintons Covention Speech

In case you missed it, as I did:

Mrs. First Lady

I love this woman.

Juan Williams of Fox News

Typically the douche-y-ist of douches.... moved by Mrs. Obama to the point of tears:

Did You Know?

Joe Scarborough is a Douche

There was actually a time when I liked Joe, those days are now gone.

Joe is a dick.

Today's Reason Not to Vote for John McCain

On top of all of that...

At the age of 42 he cheated on his disabled wife with a 24-year old, Paris Hilton clone (Rich heiress, with a drug problem....google it), and then called her a cunt in public.

Some people vote in their own best interests. Some people vote in every ones best interests. I know which kind I am.

Four More Years

And he called his wife a Cunt.

Joe Biden

So the next Vice President is going to be Joe Biden. If I am completely honest I am not exactly "Fired Up, and Ready to Go" about this.

I have been thinking about this a lot, and trying to prepare myself for this announcement.

What I realized is that there is no good supporting actor for Senator Obama. He is such a trancendant leader, there is no way to reinforce his weakpoints without comprimising what his campaign stands for.

If Obama were to pick someone young and exciting, like himself, he would have reinforced the doubts that many have about his lack of experience.

If he were to pick someone established, with a history of foreign policy experience, it would comprimise his message of change.

I suppose that picking someone like Biden, who is older but still tends to act very young. Biden has a history of putting his foot in his mouth.

He also has a history of saying very honest and sometimes very funny things.

The next few months will be entertaining at least.

John McCain is out of Touch

Who is Elitist?

The Clintonistas

I am so angry with these people I cannot think strait.

I was listening to the radio this morning. I was listening to the Bill Press show which airs on 950 AM in the mornings.

I am not a Bill Press fan but he is what I get if I want politics in the morning since 950 took the Young Turks off.

A woman called in and explained that she, as a Hillary Clinton supporter would not be voting for Obama in the general election, and would instead write her vote in for Hillary.

Bill tried to explain to this woman that, what she was proposing was equivilent to a vote for John McBush.

To which she replied that she was so angry she did not care.

I simply cannot understand these people.

I blame the Junior Senator from NY for this. The tone of her campaign in its final months became one of blaming everyone but herself for her demise. It was the Media, it was Sexism, It was the "Race Card", Obama was doing this, Obama was doing that. Never once did she look inward and realize that this was about Her. It was about the people that she chose to surround herself with, like Mark Penn who it has been released wanted her to paint Obama as a foreigner, or not like "Us".

It was these types of tactics that utimately led to her not winning, cuppled with the fact that Barack Obama is an incredible, once in a generation type of politician, and Hillary was simply more of the same, with a vagina.

It is the idiot supporters of Senator Clinton that are going to ultimately decide the outcome on November 4th.

This woman who called in this morning is not alone. These people need to get over it. She lost, whether fairly or unfairly, she lost.

Is it more important for these people to make a statment, or for them to retain their rights over their own reproductive systems. Is it more important to make their moronic voices heard, or to send thier children into more pointless wars of profit, that are sure to come under President McBush.

I am sorry, but I simply cannot understand this.

Another Sad Day

Dave Matthews Band Saxaphonist, LeRoi Moore passed away today. He was suffering from complications of an ATV accident in July.

The Band announced his passing on stage in LA last night, where Dave said "It is easier to leave, than be left"

This writer is saddened.

Ouch Babe

The release of Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince has been delayed from November of this year, to July of 2009.

The reason the studio gave...wait for it....

...The Writer's strike.

According to Warner Bros., The writer's strike caused an upheaval in the lineup of films that were scheduled to come out next summer. Leaving a void for big name movies.

The studio is claiming that it is for this reason that they moved the film from November 21st (which would have allowed the Gilmore Family to go see it Thanksgiving night, like they have for all of the Potter films that have been released in the fall) to July of '09.

The real reason for the change, as I have discovered.

Danile Radcliffe's Penis.

That right, his penis. Radcliffe is performing in the play Equus which opens in New York this fall. In the play, Radcliffe has a love scene with a woman, and a love scene with a horse. Neither of which the studio would like to see having anything to do with the fall release of the 6th Potter film.

Every interview Dan did for the Potter film, would contain questions about the play.

So I guess for now, I will just have to keep watching the trailer over and over again.

It's Here!

Yes, that is MY motorcycle, in MY driveway.

I just spent more time, just hanging out in my garage, than I have in the last year plus that I have lived here.

Growing up, basically until today, I never understood how guys could just hang out in the garage all day, drinking bad beer and watching a race on a 13 inch TV.

All I wanted to do for the last hour was stand, one hand itching my balls, the other wrapped around a Genny Ice, a pointless race on in the background, and just stand and look at my bike, grunting occasionally.

I finally understand.

side note.... if you look closely in the picture above you will see my newly painted wheels on my Man Wagon. I went from sort of gay, soccer dad wagon, to completly bad ass international man of mystery, all with a few cans of paint and some patience.

God, I am bad ass.

Missed Opportunities

In a world where the negative is always focused on, R News missed a chance to tell a truly wonderful story. Nick Warner left yesterday on his run to raise money for GVRC, the camp for children with disabilities that he works at. Nick ran to raise money for the camp and R News was supposed to film the send off. At the last minute R News called to tell Nick that they would not be making it out because there was a breaking news story in the city. I will not go into detail about what the breaking story was, it does not matter. What matters that there was a chance to tell a rally wonderful, powerful story about someone making a difference in the world. Instead they chose to tell of more death, and negativity. It's no wonder I don't watch the local news.

"It Won't be a Landslide"

That was the title of an article on AOL's main page yesterday. That is a perfect example of the power of the corporate media. The power to frame an arguement to make it sound like this thing is closer than it really is.

Obama has a 5+ point lead in the national polls. That translates right now to a blowout in the electoral college. The problem is, the corporate news media needs to sell commercials for the next three months. People will not be watching election coverage if the media were to tell the truth, that Obama is running away with it, and John McCain's "Spinal Tap" campaign is spiraling out of control.

It is going to be a blow out. Period.

God, I am Bad Ass

I don't want to jinx it, as I don't own it yet. But this Will be my motorcycle as soon as the particulars are taken care of.

God, I am Bad Ass

How Far We've Come... Or Have Not Come

On the morning of October 16, 1968,[2] American athlete Smith won the 200 metre race in a then-world-record time of 19.83 seconds, with Australia's Peter Norman second with a time of 20.06 seconds, and American Carlos in third place with a time of 20.10 seconds. After the race was completed, the three went to collect their medals at the podium. The two American athletes received their medals shoeless, but wearing black socks, to represent black poverty.[3] Smith wore a black scarf around his neck to represent black pride.[3] Carlos wore beads which he described "were for those individuals that were lynched, or killed that no-one said a prayer for, that were hung and tarred. It was for those thrown off the side of the boats in the middle passage."[4] All three athletes wore Olympic Project for Human Rights (OPHR) badges, after Norman expressed sympathy with their ideals. Sociologist Harry Edwards, the founder of the OPHR, had urged black athletes to boycott the games; reportedly, the actions of Smith and Carlos on October 16, 1968,[2] were inspired by Edwards' arguments.[5]

Both Americans intended on bringing black gloves to the event, but Carlos forgot his, leaving them in the Olympic Village. It was the Australian, Peter Norman, who suggested Carlos wear Smith's left-handed glove, this being the reason behind him raising his left hand, as opposed to his right, differing from the traditional Black Power salute.[6] When "The Star-Spangled Banner" played, Smith and Carlos delivered the salute with heads bowed, a gesture which became front page news around the world. As they left the podium they were booed by the crowd.[7] Smith later said "If I win, I am American, not a black American. But if I did something bad, then they would say I am a Negro. We are black and we are proud of being black. Black America will understand what we did tonight."

As a result of their actions, Tommy Smith and John Carlos were ostracized. They were removed from the American Olympic team and not allowed to continue to compete. The predominately white sporting community was outraged by their actions. It took these men the majority of their adult lives to overcome the effects of their actions that day. It was a sacrifice they were willing to make in order to stand up for what they believed in.

Forty years later how far have we come. Early this year NBA star Kobe Bryant released a Public Service Announcement concerning the atrocities that are taking place in the Darfur region of the Sudan. It is known that the Chinese Government has been supporting the violence there both economically and through the sale of weapons.



Upon arriving in China for the Summer Olympics, Bryant was asked what he feels about being in China, knowing that they support the very violence that he spoke out about previously. Bryant's response, as well as that of LeBron James and others was that he was there to play basketball not be an international diplomat.

On the surface this would appear to be nothing more than a typical response to a hot button question. I by no means intend to place the responsibility on Kobe. He is free to do what he likes. I just find it coincidental that Bryant does not want to ruffle any feathers in China now, knowing that he is on a national stage there right now, seeing as China represents a significant portion of the worlds population and is the next frontier of the NBA and it's international superstars.

Those are a lot of jerseys that wont be sold if Bryant, James, or anyone else stands up and speaks out about what is taking place in Africa, as U.S Olympian Joey Cheek did, which resulted in him loosing his Visa and not being permitted to compete. Something that is so quickly forgotten when the games begin and there are sports to watch.

I hold my athletes to a high standard and maybe that is unfair. I am choosing not to watch these games and that is a choice that I am making. But I have seen athletes stand for something, and sacrifice for something.

The Next President of the United States of America

I am sticking to my story, it is going to be a landslide. Obama is going to win by double digits nationally. He will win Virginia, Ohio, Indiana, North Carolina, New Jersey and Georgia.

ExxonMcCain is going to get annailiated

ExxonMcCain 08

I would actually like one of the Obama tire pressure gauges....I think my tire pressure might be low.

I Love When He Does This

Obama off the cuff is a beautiful thing.

For as awkard and weird as Senator McBush is when he goes off script, Obama is equally as good. I just love it.

Mark Down the Date

I saw my first McCain 2008 sticker the other day while driving down Long Pond Road the other day.

I do too much driving for work and am constantly on the lookout for stickers, so I had found it note worthy that it took so long to see a McCain sticker.


As suprising as it was that it took so long to see a McCain sticker, it was not suprising at all to see what type of vehicle said sticker was placed on.

That is a 2008 GMC Acadia which gets about 15 miles to the effing gallon...Yea off shore drilling and record profits for big oil companies.