Chomp!

The NBA season started last night. The Utah Jazz won and from the look of things Ronnie Brewer was lucky to escape without bite marks in his head…

Pingu is one of the most enjoyable things to watch that I’ve seen in a long time, it makes my insides laugh…

This was seen on the man’s own blog.

So, I’m sitting here at work. And I’m not someone that knows a lot about politics. Part of that is the fact that I just don’t trust politicians. I feel that once you enter that arena you start to look at the world as a very gray place and don’t see the black and whites of right and wrong as they exist. I know this isn’t true for every person that enters politics as a profession, but being two-faced is something that really has seemed to become a requirement of an elected official…

Anyway we are very very close to a major election that will decide the direction of many things in our country over the next few years. A president will be elected, and there is a lot of jawing back-and-forth between a few of my coworkers about the various candidates and what’s better and who’s going to win, blah blah blah. I really don’t think that this kind of thing is appropriate for the workplace, but then again I don’t really feel too much anymore that I personally am a good fit for this particular work place – that however is a discussion for a different day. So one of these great political minds said something today that showed the very root of his intelligence. “I do hope that [presidential candidate's name] is elected so that [a particular political party] can fail and we’ll see how bad things get”. Um, what the crap? What kind of thinking is that? You want a guy to be elected candidate so he can mess up the country to prove a point that your political party is better than the other? WOW! So this is the kind of person we’re going to have going to the voting booth in a few days, a person who wants to see how bad things can get for this country…

This is my outlook on things as far as that goes right now. Political partys are stupid. It seems to come down to us-against-them menatlity instead of what’s better for the whole. If a democrat is elected president and they maintain control of the house and senate they will simply fold their arms and basically say “We’re in control so deal with it”. The same thing would happen if the republicans had control. They don’t care what’s best, just who’s in control of the ship as it sinks.

I don’t pretend for a minute though that America as a country isn’t strong enough to dig ourselves out of the various messes we find ourselves in. The country has been able to endure a lot and can endure the current low we’re stalled in now. The problem is that it takes changing, work and some pain (not throwing money at the problems to hope it sticks somewhere) -Â and those are two things that a person naturally shuns.

As people go into vote the attitude I would hope they would take with them is that they are there to elect the leaders they feel will be the best person in that place to make a positive difference. And I really just feel right now that regardless of who wins the election and becomes our next president he needs to be someone that can make a positive change and impact on the country. That’s a heavy burden and you have to make the choice on who to support in your own way. But if you are just punching the ticket for one “party” or another, well that seems like an odd way to do things to me…

But then again I don’t pretend to know a lot about politics.