Governor Henry Has FAILED

The state of Arkansas will vote in November on whether or not to start a state lottery. I hope the citizens of Arkansas will do what Oklahomans didn't do and research the history of lotteries for education. They will have to look no further than their neighbors to the west who have a failing lottery ran by a failure of a governor. Brad Henry is a sick joke. He was elected for one reason and that reason is failing. He once said that the lottery would bring in $500 million a year!!! Well that total is now $69 million, 30% of which goes to the state. The lottery has failed, Henry has failed, and Oklahoma has failed because they elected this crook twice. Democrats ruined education during their 80 years of congressional control and now they are digging the hole even deeper from the states highest office. Henry should have been impeached years ago, but instead we fall farther and farther behind other states. Henry will go down as the WORST Governor in Oklahoma history. Somewhere Steve Largent is sitting there laughing at the failure that is Brad Henry, but yet crying at the thought of how many kids go to substandard schools because of the lies of one man and the greed of the clueless citizens who voted for the fool.

Shopping Is Hard

I don't like to shop, but sometimes if you really need/want something you have to put in the time and effort to find what you really need/want. In my case it is a new pair of glasses. I've been wearing these same glasses for about 5-6 years and figure that it is time for a new pair. I went to the mall this weekend with two friends. One of them was looking for glasses as well so we were focused on the task at hand. Once we got there I was a little overwhelmed. My friend started trying on pairs immediately, but I took my time. I hadn't thought about wire type frames or the big plastic type. These are very contrasting styles and I hadn't thought about it. I wear the wire type right now, but think a change could be good. To make a long story short I tried on a million pairs of glasses and got some quality feedback from my friends. Its always nice when people are flat out honest with you. They told me the ones they liked and the ones they didn't. There was no gray area.

Here's what I'm thinking though. I need a female opinion. The two friends who went with me were both guys. I think it will be good to get a female opinion to contrast with the male opinion. I want to make the purchase in the next few weeks, but I have trouble committing. These glasses are like an old friend. It will be hard to say goodbye, but it must happen. It will be uncomfortable, but it must happen.

Cool Things and Not So Cool Things

Well the semester has almost reached the halfway point. I have a midterm exam on Monday, which is weird because it seems like the semester just started. Don't get me wrong, I'm not complaining about this, but its really starting to sink in that I will be graduating in May. Graduation has always seemed like some far off mystical land that doesn't really exist, but I am finding out that it does actually exist. Hell of a feeling!

This is going to get random now...

So I was at work last night and saw a GUY with breast implants. Yep, you read that correctly.....BREAST IMPLANTS. This was brought to the attention of a small group of coworkers (not in the presence of the boobs guy) who all immediately kind of smiled and said "no way" or "yeah right". But they quickly found out that it was indeed true. Their responses quickly changed to "gross" or "sick". This guy was in the middle of switching genders and his body was rejecting the effort. I won't go into great detail, but things weren't working like he thought they would and the resulting infections and such were not pretty. So for anyone looking at switching genders or something over the weekend you might want to think about the damage you are doing to your body. But hey, if you are really thinking about switching genders the real thing you need to worry about is your mind. Seek help. THIS IS NOT NORMAL.

Now you can go tell everyone you read a blog that had graduation and fake man boobs in the same post!

I'm back. I had to come back and add something to this. Just ran across this link on the DrudgeReport and it pissed me off. Add this mental midget to the list of actors/actresses I won't pay money to see. Shocking that she is French....

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2008/03/01/wcotillard101.xml

Sunday Thoughts

Well the sun is going down on another Sunday and another long week of crap will begin anew tomorrow morning. Here are a couple of random thoughts about tonight and the past week.

The Oscars are tonight. Always a tough night for me because I hate "Hollywood" and all the "stars", but yet I love movies. So I will probably watch some of it because I would like for a few movies I saw to do well. I really enjoyed No Country For Old Men, There Will Be Blood, and Juno. One cool thing about each of these is that there aren't any "Hollywood types" in them. So I'm pulling for each movie and all the actors in them. Just spare me the George Clooney's of this world.

This week the New York Times made their first attempt to discredit a Republican candidate. The great thing about this is that many liberals are even calling it weak and I see it as a sign that this dying rag of a "newspaper" is on their way out. They are no longer relevant and their bias just keeps getting exposed year after year. People are tired of it and their falling subscription rates and upcoming firings prove this. You can only print jokers like Frank Rich and Paul Krugman for so long before people see you as nothing but a joke. The crossword remains as the only thing "fit to print". The weird thing about the story is that they have been holding it since December, but yet endorsed McCain before Super Tuesday. So they knew they had this story and that they were going to use it against McCain, but yet still endorsed him.

Fidel Castro stepped down as the leader of Cuba this week and his brother was selected to replace him today. On the nightly news tonight they interviewed a bunch of Cubans in the local government ran markets and listened to all the complaints about food shortages, long lines at healthcare facilities, and low wages. Isn't socialism great!! Nothing beats hungry, underpaid, sick people watching state tv and reading their state newspaper!! Oh wait...that sucks. Surely the nightly news has it wrong though. Michale Moore took sicks veterans to Cuba for treatment because of their great healthcare. So who is right? Actual Cubans or a liberal propagandist trying to persuade uneducated Americans like Oprah?? I'll go with the actual Cubans. The moral of this story? When you walk into that voting booth in November think about those sick, hungry, and underpaid Cubans. Look at their leaders and how much the government runs their lives, then compare that to the candidates we have. For those of you who aren't catching on I will spell it out for you. Put fatigues, a beard, and a few wrinkles on Obama and you've got Castro.

Enjoy your Sunday evening and I'll see in the bread lines!!

Interesting Stuff

Two interesting things I have read in the last couple of days. One is from the latest issue of Forbes magazine. The piece is an editorial written by Steve Forbes himself. Mr. Forbes has had some interesting ideas over the years, but his favorite cause has been the idea of a flat tax. His editorial this month comments on Rudy Giuliani's very interesting ideas on tax simplification. I'm very intrigued by the ideas mentioned, but sadly my vote doesn't count because I don't live in Iowa or New Hampshire and I will never know what could have come from these ideas. ANYWAY...here is the link to the online version. Check out the hard copy if you get a chance because it shows a sample tax form under the Giuliani plan and it is simply amazing. Oh yeah...there are multiple editorials on this link, but the tax part is under the heading "Reagan Would Applaud".

http://www.forbes.com/columnists/forbes/2008/0211/019_2.html

The other interesting thing I read was an interview in the Gazette that came out today. The interview is with Senator Tom Coburn who just visited Iraq and came away with some interesting observations. I was honestly shocked to see this in the Gazette since they hate Senator Coburn, but I think his disagreement with the Bush Administration on the handling of the war and war spending is what got him in this weeks issue. Senator Coburn remains as one of probably ten people who actually belong in congress. It gives me hope for Oklahoma that we elected Coburn and sent lying jokers like Brad Carson packing. Coburn has announced that he is not interested in being VP, which I would have loved to have seen, but we still have him in the Senate fighting for Oklahoma and for what is right. If only we could get a man like Coburn to be our Governor. Henry has failed and it is time to find someone qualified for the job.

Ahh The Weekend

Another weekend is winding down and I'm faced with my least favorite time of the week....Sunday night. Sunday nights are terrible because you know what you face the next morning. In twelve hours I will be walking into biometrics for another lecture about something I will never use. Depressing thought.

This was a weird weekend. I worked until midnight Friday night and then came home and passed out. The storm woke me up once or twice during the night, but it made sleeping in a beautiful thing. The only problem is that the rain didn't stop. It just rained and rained and rained. Amazing how something is so great when you are sleeping and then sucks so bad when you are awake. Every minute of my week is planned except for the weekend. So when it rains on the weekend it flat out blows.

One positive is that I got some good studying done, but the weekend should be more than that. I also watched the movie Fargo for the first time. Great movie. I have no idea why I have never seen it since I enjoy so many of the Coen brother's other films.

Well I better go...here comes Monday....

Iowa Doesn't Speak For Me

Short blog for you today. In this political season we have a HUGE problem and I have the easy solution. The problem is the way we go about electing our President. Right now we have individual states deciding when to hold their own primaries. There are many problems with this, but the main problem is that essentially we have the people of Iowa and New Hampshire deciding which 2-3 candidates from each party get to move on. Why do they get to decide that?

Here is why....the media. The media has somehow romanticized the Iowa caucus and the New Hampshire primary. They paint it as some grand historical event that somehow makes American politics great, but they are wrong. Lets say you live in Oklahoma and wanted to vote for John Edwards or Rudy Giuliani...you couldn't. Well I guess you could have, but it wouldn't have mattered. So here is the big question. Why have a system where you don't get to put your support behind someone because of where you live? The issues that the people in Iowa are voting on might be different than those of people in New York or Alaska or Oklahoma.

The solution is obvious....a national primary day or primary weekend. Put it in early February and you can cut down on the incredible costs associated with being a candidate. It would still be expensive, but imagine how much money these people could save on commercials, transportation, staffing, print advertising, etc. I think you would also need some regulation on when someone could start campaigning so we don't have people starting even earlier in advance of this early national primary. I think this would level the playing field and allow everyone to support the candidate of their choice.

Lastly, it would force people who already hold office to do the job they were elected to do. The people of New York and Illinois each have one senator who is not currently doing the job they were elected to do. Obama and Clinton should both step aside if they aren't going to represent the people that elected them. They were elected to serve, not to run for other offices.