The President, Conspiracy Theories, and Things I Want To Do

The President's visit was a mixed bag. Whether there's a Republican or a Democrat in the White House, it's always interesting to have a front row seat to see the most powerful person in the world.
For just a few hours, President Bush got away from low approval ratings and the war.
Or so he thought.
The day Bush was in town, the paper had an interesting front page. On the right side of the page was the "President is coming to town" article.
On the left side was a huge headline reading, "IT WAS ALL FOR NOTHING" with a soldier's picture jammed between the two articles.
The story was about some local soldiers who had driven through a very dangerous section of Tikrit to conduct a training mission with Iraqi soldiers. They arrived safely only to be stood up by the Iraqi soldiers...hence the headline.

I did think it was interesting how the President and his administration refer to "the planet."
President Bush doesn't not talk about global warming. He doesn't because everyone knows that if you believe in global warming, you are a liberal, left leaning, card carrying PETA member who hates America.
You can, however, be concerned and believe in "climate change." The President regularly preaches his concern for climate change and says that we need to be ready to work diligently for a solution. He is concerned about climate change and not global warming.

'Cause only liberals like Al Gore believe in global warming. Conservatives are concerned about
climate change.

Speaking of Gore....and an "Inconvenient Truth".....

Look Al, next time your hungry, reach for an apple or a banana and skip the Bugles and Doritos. An inconvenient truth is that you and I both need to hit the treadmill more often.
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What is your favorite conspiracy theory? When the President comes to your town, the Secret Service mandates that you are in a specific place by a specific time. Usually that means you get to your spot two hours in advance and stay there. So, there is plenty of time for plenty of discussion about anything.

My favorite conspiracy theory is the 2000 election, but it's not what you think.
Mine is that the Republican party did "something" for Ralph Nader. Nader got 95,000 votes in Florida and Bush won by 537 votes. I don't think Nader ran to make a statement or to give people a third option.

Another one...in sports.
The NBA rigged the draft lottery so that the New York Knicks could get Patrick Ewing.
Love that one and knowing the way sports can work, I don't doubt it.

Junior winning at Daytona in July after his dad was killed there in February is a good one.
Don't know...but at a restrictor plate track, when you hit the gas and pull away from the draft,
that tells me something is a little different.
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Things I Want To Do:

1) Be on Oprah after she recommends by book.
2) Accept my Tony Award for best play from David Letterman.
3) Go on a two week trip down the Colorado River.
4) Throw out the first pitch at Wrigley.
5) Throw out the first beer at Wrigley.
6) Pick out my very own blue healer to run around with in the back yard.
7) Do stand-up and KILL the crowd.
8) Wake up by the beach....everyday.
9) Win The Lottery. Give almost all of it away.
10) Win a World Series of Poker bracelet.

More later I'm sure.

Three Things: Selmer, The Shuffle, and Emily

Sorry....again real life gets in the way.

1) Selmer, TN.

A drag racer doing a burnout on a street...not a race track...lost control of his Pro Mod car and plowed into a crowd killing six people over the weekend.
There is always a point in just about anything that goes wrong where someone should have raised their hand and said "that is a bad idea."

Clearly this was one of those times. Putting a 3,000 horsepower capable of chewing up asphalt was dangerous at the least and, as you can see, deadly at the worst.
The driver did his burnout too far. He was on a public street with no adhesive material, which is put on drag strips to make the tires stick. They may have held that event for years with no problems, but they were lucky.

2) I joined part of the 21st century over the Father's Day weekend. I got an I-Pod Shuffle. Capable of holding 500 songs I'm told. Aerosmith, Springsteen, and a liberal sprinkling of
metal will be on my "shuffle." Not sure what I would do with those I-Pod's that can hold 15,000 songs. Vic Camp and I used to pay $4.99 for Bad Company albums at Funland Records in Decatur. Now 50 bucks will get you 500 songs....and earplugs to I can tune the world out.
Is this a great country or what!

3) Emily got me a tie for Father's Day. She also bought me some cologne. But here is the best part! She got mad when I paid for lunch on Father's Day. The check was supposed to be hers! Maybe that is the sign a kid is growing up! My dad has paid for every restuarant meal we've both attended since 1982.

Promise to be more consistent with posts. Thanks for being patient.

GS