I love it when someone makes content that expresses exactly how you feel about a situation. Democrats have been so incredible wimpy and inept this year, letting Republicans and conservative pundits bully them around. It’s one of the reasons I am on the hunt for a new political party or more likely political philosophy, independent of party as I am thinking more and more when you get yourself into a “party” situation, that’s when things start to fall apart.

Did you see it? O’Reilly dubbed us Patriots on The Factor last night for our new commercial!: http://bit.ly/4KW3xs

I have been a long time Dish Network subscriber and I was peeved when I saw this and watched the video. Fox’s Bill O’Reilly has been popping off about the supposed “war on Christmas” for the past several years. His argument is that too many people are using the word Holidays instead of Christmas thus degrading the traditionally Christian holiday. Personally I think this artificial controversy is ridiculous. There is no “war” on Christmas and if anything has been lost of the religious basis of the season, it was lost a long time ago mostly to over consumerism and not because of any deliberate effort.

Dish Network has the right to make any kind of commercial it wants and I’m not bothered in the least that they say Merry Christmas in the spot. But Bill O’Reilly holding them up as some kind of heroes and worse than that, Dish Network glomming onto that is what pisses me off. As I said, I’m a long time Disk Network customer and I also happen to be Jewish. While I don’t mind the spot itself, Dish Network had better watch where they step and who they choose to affiliate with. I’m sure Dish has many customers who are not Christian and I feel like they just slapped them all in the face.

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Being a west coaster, I would love to see a fast train running from Seattle to San Diego. Of course we need a cross country route and several east coast runs. Unfortunately this would cost an incredible amount of money and Obama’s proposed 8 billion is barley a drop in the bucket. Maybe a private company should be encouraged to do it but with the costs involved it could take a very long time just to make your money back so maybe a government/private sector partnership. The Infrastructurist website has a great article on how passenger rail could be saved. Whichever, Amtrak is basically broke and is a broken system. I would hate to see train travel go away so I hope against hope someone can spur a great revival in train travel.

Several weeks ago, Obama took his wife on a “date” to New York for dinner and a show. It’s something he promised he would to for her when the election was over. Conservatives tried to get themselves into a tizzy over this, saying it cost too much taxpayer money and that he should be focusing on the problems of the nation. After all the crazy money the government spends on meaningless crap, we’re supposed to start worrying about a trip to New York? After the President spent time in France for D-Day, he took the entire family to Paris. Again, why is Obama sightseeing in Paris?

If this is the biggest complaint people can find about Obama, well, that’s pretty pathetic. But here is the bigger thing. These are things Obama is doing for is family. Taking his wife out to New York and letting his kids experience a bit of Paris is fantastic.  We should be lauding him for taking such good care of his family while holding down the most difficult job in the world. It’s a great example for all of us that no matter how hard you are working, no matter how busy you are, there is always time for your family, for your wife.

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Michael Steele, newly minted RNC chairman says he is planning an “off the hook” public relations campaign and will translate the GOP image into “urban-suburban hip-hop settings”. Ever since Barack Obama made black hip in the white house, republicans figure they’ll follow right along. Just like a copy-cat Hollywood movie, this is destined for failure. For one thing, virtually every legit hip-hop artist is already in the Obama camp and for another thing this won’t jibe to well with Sarah Palin’s aspirations. Sorry, but no matter how you cut it, girl ain’t fly.

I also know I am fat because I know my weight is at least 10lbs over what I should be. Not as bad as some people, but we all have our own challenges. I’ve been thinking about going back to the gym for awhile now. Thinking. Thinking doesn’t take the pounds off. If only.

And so once again I declare, I will get to the gym on a regular basis. Seriously.