I honestly don’t know much about the situation, and that’s saying a lot for someone who usually stays really up on politics. Work has been crazy busy with an end of the month project, my new MacBook Pro just got here, and there have been a ton of other things going on.

All I know is that the General made some comments critical of the administration. And now he’s not the top commander in Afghanistan anymore.

I will not comment on whether or not the comments were out of line, because I don’t know what they were. I do think that this administration seems to have thin skin and does not like it when anyone stands in there way or is critical of them.

The thing that just makes me chuckle is the top name on the replacement list – General David Petraues. One on the most demonized Generals from people on the Left during his time as the top commander during the war in Iraq.

I think that is the thing that strikes me as most ironic. A President loved by the left bringing in someone they hate to lead the war in Afghanistan.

I finished the Obama Nation probably in either late January or early February. Scary stuff. A big part of means wants to say, “I told you so,” when it comes to Obama. It seems to the he wants us all to be completely dependent on the federal government, and that is a scary place to be, but I digress.

I would say that we are most of the way to goal #5 – successfully training Schrute. He’s learned sit, stay, lay down, up, and he can also give high fives. He still has his moments, but we keep reminding ourselves that he’s only a little over 6 months old. Although he looks like an adult dog, he’s far from it.

I beat COD: World at War probably two weeks ago now. It was a really fun game, until the last couple of levels. I got stuck on the last level more times than I can even remember, but it was still a great game.

I’ve been learning a lot more .NET at work recently. I helped out with the redesign of DeliveryMaps.com and MarketMaps.com over the last couple of months. Both sites use the .NET 3.5 framework. My friends Terry and Milton from work have been very patient in explaining the ins and outs of LINQ, handlers, master pages, and the like.

For those of you keeping score at home, that’s 5 goals down, 5 to go.

See, back then, Obama wanted the economy to not be strong, to help him get elected. Now that he’s in, and the economy is in the tank, he needs to convince everyone that everything is just hunky dory.

Ironic…

Just read today that is part of the US code that you must put your hand over your heart when the anthem is played and a flag is visible.

What are some of your pet peeves ?

I’m no Economist, but it seems that these bailouts are never going to end, and we are just setting ourselves up for disaster, instead of letting the free market take care of things. Yes, it would be painful, but I believe things would work out in the end. Again, I might be wrong.

Any way, I just got done reading an article on Bloomberg that puts the price tag on all the bailouts over the last couple years to $9.7 TRILLION!!!! If you figure there are about 300 million U.S. citizens, that comes out to a check for the amount of $32,333.33 to every citizen.

Seems like a check that size would most definitely stimulate the economy.

1. Al Franken steals the Minnesota Senate election – how can I use the word steal? Well, here’s just one example. During the recount there were at least two instances where the recount totals didn’t match the election night totals. In one instance the board took the recount total, and in the other instance they took the election night total. It doesn’t take much to figure out that something is fishy there. Oh, in each instance the total favored Franken – how convenient.
2. Impeached Governor Rod Blagojevich appoints Roland Burris to fill Barrack Obama’s vacant Senate seat – I’m not even sure where to start on this one. There is so much improper behavior here it’s not even funny. Never mind that Blagojevich was just impeached and will most likely face criminal charges, in our new Senate that’s not an issue at all, “come on in.”
3. Obama’s “Climate Czar”, Carol Browner, is a leader of a socialist group’s Commission for a Sustainable World Society – Oh, they just favor global governance and think that rich countries should shrink their wealth in order to combat global climate change. Oh, by the way, global sea ice ended this year at the same level it was in 1979.

If you find yourself in a much different and much worse America in 2012 or 2016 than you did on January 20, 2009, don’t be too surprised.

It is funny how much she and her family got hammered during the campaign. Especially considering the light treatment some of President-Elect Obama’s skeletons in his closet got (rampant past drug use, connection to Bill Ayers, connection to radical Kenyan Communists, and the list goes on.)

Anyway…enjoy!

The following video was an interview of some Obama supporters on how well they knew their political facts. I know that anyone can edit anything to make it look however they want, but it is pretty sad. I’m no political expert, but I’m pretty sure I could have answered just about all of the questions posed.

Apparently Caroline Kennedy, in the running for the Senate seat that Hillary Clintion will most likely vacate next year, has not voted in several elections in New York since registering in 1988. One of the election includes the Senate seat she hopes to fill.

Seriously, you can’t make this stuff up.

Be careful what you wish for New Yorkers. If “change we can believe in” led to a boatload of new taxes (I know, Obama had nothing to do with the changes, but Democrats do control New York), I’m not sure what having another Kennedy family member in the U.S. Senate means.