Conservative BS

During the 2004 election, I signed up for a few conservative mailing lists to see the utter bulls**t they like to send out. My favorite conservative argument is against abortion, but yet they are more likely to go to war (which kills people), support the death penalty (which also kills people), and yet they call themselves the moral majority. Yeah right.

Another issue conservatives are always ranting about are guns and taxes. Well, they’re planning on doing their idiotic^H^H^H^H^H^H^H patriotic duty by urging folks to use their tax rebates to buy guns:

The checks are in the mail. Those would be the so-called economic stimulus, or tax rebate, checks, rushed out to about 75 percent of Americans by Congress. The checks represent a pittance of your very own money (or, in the case of those who pay little or no taxes, someone else’s money) being returned to you (or, in the case of those who pay little or no taxes, falling like manna from government, as it is supposed to, according to some of them).

Buy guns. Nothing, absolutely nothing, will drive liberal Members of Congress crazier than tax rebates being spent on guns. Little will make you feel better and safer than some additional firepower. You want stimulus? You got stimulus.

You can read more of this nonsense here.

Hillary Clinton exposed as a Fraud for 1996 Bosnia Trip

Oops! I think politicians really need to watch what they say. I don’t hold this against her, but trying to make it more dramatic hurts her.

My dad on “El Nuevo Dia” Puerto Rican newspaper

“El Nuevo Dia” interviewed my dad and his associates at their barber shop, the Washington Square Hair Salon on politics. All are staunch democrats and plan on voting for Hillary Clinton at Maryland’s primary on Tuesday. Being informed about politics and the importance of voting has always been one of the values my dad instilled in me. That is why today I find myself watching CNN for all of the primary races to see what is going on. The other thing I got from my dad is newspaper reading. While I get a lot of my news online now, I still find time to read the Sunday newspaper (and not just the comics and sports sections)

From left to right, the Boricuas Jesús Rodríguez (my dad), Ismael Rodríguez y José Morales, owners of the “Washington Square Hair Salon” barbershop in Washington, DC. Photo by Sandy Schaeffer.

Yes We Can

Yes We Can - Barack Obama Music Video

I was a John Edwards supporter, but after he left the race, I’m leaning towards Obama.

OBAMA ‘08!

humorous links

cinder blocks post from craigslist
Star Wars Guide to the Candidates

Pick a candidate

Click here to see what candidate more closely matches your views.
http://minnesota.publicradio.org/projects/ongoing/select_a_candidate/poll.php?race_id=13

It’s funny as I am planning on giving Joe Biden my vote. But the above poll says Chris Dodd matches my views more closely.

Top three matching my views:

Biden falls #9 in the list:

Lil’ Bush

While watching the Daily Show one night, I found a new show on Comedy Central called “Lil’ Bush“. It’s hilarious. The first episode I saw was about George turning gay because he was hanging out with a Brit, Tony Blair. And in the second 15 minute episode, he hires an illegal alien to do his chores.

Trip to Maryland

This weekend we went to Maryland to visit some family and so that Liz could attend Mirsa’s (her cousin) baby shower. Aside from the traffic, we had a good time.

We left for Maryland on Saturday morning around 10am, and decided to take I-95 all the way up instead of taking US 301. That’s when we hit traffic at exit 152 until 162. It took us 45 minutes to get 10 miles. On the way back on Monday, we took the same route, and hit a backup at exit 104. There was a overturned SUV and a shredded camper trailer that the SUV apparently had in tow. It took us about an hour to go 4 miles. And had I had my Atlas in the car or a GPS system I would’ve noticed that getting off at 207 would’ve saved us that hour.

I-95 is notorious for having bad traffic around the DC area, so most sane people avoid it unlike us But I think it’s really a sign of how horrible our Interstate Highway System has become. When Eisenhower had the system built, he wanted to move equipment and supplies across the country in a quick and efficient manner. The capacity has since outgrown what the Interstate Highway System can take. Imagine a disaster hitting the I-95 corridor. There is no way you could take the highway to get out of town fast enough. It would be come shear gridlock. Even now, a accident closes the highway down for hours. There should be a way to re-route traffic onto side streets to avoid this gridlock. Maybe what we need is a parallel I-95 or maybe better alerting and detour signs to re-route traffic. Hell even opening up the shoulder that isn’t being used to allow more traffic to flow. But instead of fixing our ailing infrastructure, we spend our time and money bombing other countries. SIGH!

On a much lighter note, my father has a wonderful vegetable garden in his backyard which is being attacked by a groundhog. He purchased a trap and so far caught an opposum and this weekend he caught another one, so we thought. When he picked up the trap to move it the animal inside moved around and I saw the white stripe. I immediately told him it was a skunk. So my mother and I went inside while my dad moved the trap and opened it up to release it. Luckily my dad didn’t get sprayed, but the skunk did spray somewhere because the whole yard was in a funk! So to combat the smell my dad decided to burn some wood in his old grill. Unfortunately, he had the grill sitting directly on top of 2 wooden planks which, you guested it, started to burn. Then the grill toppled and fell on to the ground. We all thought it was hilarious because no one was in harms way. But the smoke did help cover up the skunk smell.

Also this weekend, the boys, me, and my dad, went to Allen Pond Park in Bowie. We fed the ducks and geese, walked around the pond, the boys played in the playground, and later had ice cream. It was a great time. I’ll post pictures tonight.

Aside from the travel, the trip a good time was had by all.

common courtesy

Today we find out that Adan’s kindergarten teacher will not be returning to teach at his school next year. We all speculated that she will stay home with her soon to come bundle of joy, but it turns out that the school will not be renewing her contract.

Some parents complained to the administration that her tone with some of the students was inappropriate, but none had the courtesy to approach her to let her know they had concerns. She was completely unaware this was going on. It is truly a shame that some parents don’t understand that teaching is a very difficult job and that sometimes you have to change your tone with children to get their attention. I suspect that these are the same parents that rarely attend any functions at school and probably let their children run rampant.

If Adan ever had a problem with his teacher, I would go speak with the teacher in person to find out what had occurred.  If it continues to occur, then I would involve the administration, but it is only fair that if you have a problem with someone that you address it with them before escalating.

Bush is Palpatine

Looks like Bush is trying to be Senator Palpatine, in this article entitled Bush grants presidency extraordinary powers.