Political Ads and Maryland Politics

Who gets my first email about all the political ads on TV? I wanted to get rid of cable, just go with analog, but I lost a family vote, curses! Kind of glad I lost, network TV is one long political ad, and I think they are all lying. One candidate is running on their accomplishments, Barbara Milkulski, but she's been in office for 100 years, running against a guy that made a commercial that looked like the show crocodile hunter. Eric Wargotz said he considers himself a "constitutional conservative" and an "Old Testament kind of guy."

OK, what's the big difference, is this the change having to do with how much money can be donated? That needs to be changed tomorrow if this is the result. I've seen the one gubernatorial ad at lest 15 times today, and I don't watch anything during the day, and that's not the only one I've seen. All of them are contradicting each other, someone is lying! WBAL says Kratovil changed his ad, told the truth, kind of, lies of omission, I wouldn't know, neither Harris or Kratovil have returned my emails. Don't forget there are 2 other people running, Libertarian Dr Richard Davis, and Independent Jack Wilson.

I Need An Activity, Doctor Day, and Shameful News Coverage

I have a exciting day planned tomorrow, I'm positively giddy! I'm going to the dentist in the morning, then having a spinal injection in the afternoon. Normally I'd be pretty sure what the dentist was going to do, fix the shattered tooth, but not so sure for tomorrow. Been chewing on the right side, lost a filling on a tooth over there, and this on hasn't had a root canal, so who knows? The spinal injection is a slice of gravy, you know what you're getting there. I should have scheduled a colonoscopy for the middle of the day, that would have made a real round robin!

I got out of the house today, went to the grocery store. It was a thrill a minute. I find I'm not having a problem with the physical part of getting out, I just have no place to go! I need to join some kind of club, or start hanging out at bars, something to get out of the house. My problem is, I'm not a joiner. A group of old men play bingo at Burger King, maybe I can sub for them? I'm thinking of taking a chair up to Gunpowder Falls and sitting there, in the field, along the trails, just being out. My problem is I can't join anything, because I never know if I will be up to going anywhere. Maybe if I start slow, in a few years I'll be ready to be around people?

I'm a little bothered by what I've seen on the news lately, or more to the point, what I haven't seen. I've seen plenty on what the experts think Gov. Palin's future plans are, who may get Micheal Jackson's kids, and if Favre and Vick will play football this year. There have been plenty of stories about the President, the professor, and the cop having a beer. Are we still at war? Are we still at war in 2 foreign countries? You could have fooled me! One of the worst things that happened to us is the 24 hour news cycle. They are already covering the 2012 election because people get all worked up it. Our children are at war, and we don't talk about it, I'm sorry for that!

Multiple Sclerosis, Cat Food Cure, and Take My Racetrack, Please

I got my strawberries planted, and my flowers in their pots as well. It was a beautiful day here today, it was nice to be outside soaking up that vitamin D! I need to move a couple of plants and bushes around the patio to fit the idiot tubs, but I probably just rip them out, less energy expended. I called having them moved, but didn't hear anything back.

I saw that researchers where able to gain some info on a possible treatment for MS from a cat food illness. Really, no foolin! Pregnant cats were given a diet of irradiated food, and they had problems with movement, including paralysis and vision problems. I've said it before, I think the secret is going to be in what we eat. Good news was when the cats stopped eating the poison food, they got better with time, time being the key word.

The boy goes back to school tomorrow, he is thrilled. He also has had a hacking couch all week. I have asked him repeatedly if he feels OK, and he has assured me he does and he goes from one activity to the next. I told him, come hell or high water, he is going to school tomorrow, no claiming to be sick now!

I watched the news tonight, big mistake, I always get made when I do that. Congress is not going to end junk mail, it would hurt the Post Office, 1/3 of their work load is junk mail. Lets just give them pennies to roll over and over again! The Preakness needs to be saved from bankruptcy, again. I'm getting tired of Maryland landmarks being held for ransom, give us money or we will go someplace else. OK, go, it's the Maryland Preakness, not the Pimilico race track, Magna Entertainment Preakness. Just don't tell me some politico didn't give them the rights to the name Preakness.

Bernard Madoff, 50 Billion Reasons To Be In Jail, and a Wimpy System

What's the deal with Bernard Madoff? First of all, when a guy steals 50 billion dollars and they put him on a 10 million dollar bail, does that not make sense to anyone else? That's like when a football player making 20 million a year gets a $5,000 fine for his 5th drug violation, worthless! Madoff got in trouble for mailing $1million worth of property to relatives in violation of his bail. Why isn't he in jail yet? I read the one story and it said he surrendered his passport, that's good. There are 6 million people here illegally that got here without a passport and about 80 cents in their pocket, what makes them think this animal can't get out with 50 mil?

Madoff will die at home before he ever pays for what he did to those thousands of people. Who was supposed to be watching this joker? Why don't we lock him in a room with all the families he has destroyed, and let them take care of it. We could just send him to Rikers Island with its horrible conditions and overcrowding so he could be with his piers, the people who stole like he did. Oh yeah, we don't put people like him in jail, we put them in their multimillion dollar condos with an ankle bracelet and their promise to be good. I am officially discusted!

Look kids, if you steal big, you will be rewarded. The paparazzi follow him around like he is sleeping with Angelina, but he screwed a lot more people didn't he? I bet you if I stole 50 grand out of the local labor group pension I wouldn't end up here on home monitoring. People don't often get a chance to see how out of whack our criminal justice system is, but Bernard is going to show us all just how equal and level the playing field really is.

Baltimore City Happy About Its 22 Murders In July

Way to go Baltimore City! The 22 murders in the month of July are the fewest murders in the month for the past 7 years. The worst part of it is that is good news. Less than one murder a day is pretty good with the way things have been going. What's the answer? How do we end the wild west show? Why was this month different from the last 7 years? Does anyone know how to improve on it? Did the poor economy make it so the bad guys couldn't afford bullets?

Our daughter is trying to pick her trip for school. Like I said before, she wants to go Israel and Jordan. Her Mother and I are worried about the safety part, but I suppose we should be happy she isn't going downtown for 3 weeks! People get all tuned up about travel outside the US, but there will be about 17,000 murders here this year, and every year. Maybe we would be safer in another state? In 2006 MD had 546 murders. WOW! That's not good.

I'm glad our neighborhood is safe, and it really is. We have murders here, but who doesn't have them in their hood? We actually had a murder 2 streets over, but that was a jealous husband over 30 years ago. We also had a guy kill his sister in law and a young woman before going to Maine. They executed him though, so I'm safe.

Let's be honest, if you are murdered in a robbery, or in a drive by shooting, you probably got killed by a black guy. If you are murdered in your home, with your entire family, and your dog, and then your vital organs are consumed, you probably got offed by a white dude. Either way, it' a shame we get excited over 22 murders in a month.

Poor Brett Favre!

Is it just me, or have we had a mad rush in the last few years of pro athletes retiring, then unretiring? I think I will, no wait, I'm not! Who cares? Can we not do without another of these guys crying at the podium like a 5 year old that just learned his parents didn't send Bunky to live on that farm with the super nice family, he chased Gypsy across the street and got hit by a green VW, probably breaking his back, not having me there to hold... I digress? I could sure use a break from it. Imagine if these guys had regular jobs like a few of us had. My heart breaks for them.

Now Farve claims he was forced into retiring. Bite me! I bet they couldn't "make" him do anything. This simple farm boy routine has run it's course. Yeah, he may have been just a down home boy, once! That all ended the day he signed on the dotted line. Simple down home folk don't have TV shows about them where Hollywood comes in and films so us poor slobs at home can say, "Good, he deserves this, he's simple folk!" Double bite me!

Favre has now been headline news for days. The mean Green Bay guys won't let him play. Who cares? They, the media, do this to these guys. They build them up until you either love them, or despise them. When Favre's father died the media turned it into such a circus that it made me want to strangle the television, and that's hard to do! I'm sure he was upset, I would be too. Remember, he didn't have to play that day. Others miss games, and they are games, when family members die. Was he doing it in memory of his father, or was he doing to preserve his consecutive starts? I don't know, don't care. I do know when I worked if my father had died I would have gotten 5 days off. Period. No public cry of condolence. 5 days and over.

Life is all about choices. Favre obviously made a bad one. Live with it and stop all the pissing and moaning. Drop it or go back to Green Bay and try and win the starting spot. Either way, shut up and get out of the news!

Top News Sells Out To Fluff!

I don't even know where to start? My heart goes out to families of the 9 soldiers killed in Afghanistan. I can not even imagine their grief at not only having lost a loved one, but at the legitimate media not having enough respect not to put them on the same headline page as the release of "Hellboy II" and the birth of a Hollywood couples twins. It was a nice they got a place of honor above the story of the gay Bishop, nice touch.

Do they report on what some of the brighter minds in our country think may be a way to end this war? No, that doesn't keep you locked in the same way a review of the movie with the bat and the young guy that died because his life was so busy. I need more information about that, I feel left out of the loop. Try to put yourself in these families positions. You go looking for information and you find that the info was given by someone who couldn't be identified because the families hadn't been notified. Didn't stop them from telling it, or the newsies from reporting it. Ah, people of honor!

How many years do we watch our people die before we demand some answers? We aren't going to get them from the news, that's for sure. They weren't just on the band wagon over the war, they were the band wagon. That's back when it was the thing to do. If there aren't deaths in the 2 wars, they don't even mention it anymore. Instead they talk about what famous athlete is sleeping with what famous singer. Is there no integrity left in journalism? Don't look at me, I am looking for my own answers.

I watch very little television anymore. Nothing to watch. There is a new dog reality show coming out, I suppose that does it for some people. You can't read the newspaper in Baltimore anymore, you don't get the same effect with only one paper. We have a generation getting their "news" off of shows on the comedy channel. That's good. We have nowhere to turn anymore. I'm not sure we ever did, but it sure did feel that we did. I suppose I should just except that this is the way it goes, it's just hard to do when you know there are so many in pain and the newsies are talking about the premier of last weekends movies set new all time highs.

A bad news day

I was just checking one of the big "news" websites. I'm having a hard time figuring out what's going on. Isn't the United States fighting wars in two countries? I must be wrong about that because I don't seem to be about to find any headlines about that. Lucky for us there are at least four mentions of American Idol, we do so need to keep up! It's great to see that Cindy McCain vogued for Vamp magazine, or was it that she Vamped for Vogue? I just can't keep up with that girl! They at least gave the Dems equal coverage. I see Chelsea's Dad thinks she would make a good president some day. That's nice, isn't it? It gives me a warm feeling to know that the circle is complete. Our government has abandoned us on certain issues and the "legitimate" press must have agreed to not report on it? Words can't describe how happy I am that things in Louisiana are back to what they were before Katrina! I mean that mess with all the water, the trailers, and FEMA is all resolved right? Must be because I don't hear about it anymore. Ways to lasting beauty, losing weight, giant telescopes, and Indiana Jones. When did we as a people throw our hands up and say, " I don't want to know about it"? Who do I call about this if I'm dissatisfied? Where do I mail a letter, organize a march, wear a button? I understand the concept of a lame duck, I just didn't realize it applied to both the President of the United States and the press!

Another bad news day!

It's official! It must be me? Checking today, I see that another major "news" website has the same type of information as the others. Once more there is no mention of our wars, no mention of casualties, no mention of a plan. I see Britney Spears is making a comeback though, and may I say it is about time! That comforts me in these hard times.

I see baseball is considering instant replay. That should speed things up nicely. Pet owners settled with makers of tainted food, I was worried that one was going to drag on as long as, I don't know, the wars? I see the Germans are organizing nude air flights. That's what I said, nude, as in nekid! We can learn about celebs hooking up, breaking up, and even cracking up.

Wouldn't it be nice to see something about the mortgage disaster? When I say that I don't mean seeing what the feds are going to do to help all of these people who took on mortgages they knew they couldn't afford. Heavens no, that would be awful if we held people accountable for their actions. I'd like to see them go after the mom and pop mortgage companies that popped up to take advantage of the housing boom. Yep, some of these mortgage companies made a killing. You know the the ones, they didn't have offices, they didn't have money to lend, they were subcontractors, finding mortgages for people making 30G's who wanted to buy a 800G home! Most were just tied into Realtor offices, cut out the middle man, that's how I made my money!

No one ever explained to me that a housing boom actually meant things were going to blow up in our faces! We should demand that these new millionaires, and they made millions, be held responsible and pay for the glut of foreclosure they helped cause. Again, where do I get a button for that? What political person do I call? Times like these, you know what I mean, times you want to scream, I like to take a long drive. That ain't happening! Gas is higher then the foreclosure rate! Man the newsies and politicians better hope I don't buy a button making machine!