Dapper Dan

14 kids and a whole lot of people to blame

In case you haven't heard or you read this article a couple of years later, there is a mother that received eggs via fertilization and have given birth to 8 children.  What is more amazing is that she already has 6 kids!
My wife and I have been arguing as to who is to blame for this crazy act.  My wife believes that the doctor should be the one that has to pay for all of the children needs for the next 18 years because they allowed this mother to have 8 more children after her initial 6.  I do agree with my wife on this point but I believe that they really need to run this chick through a brain check.
It sounds like she is trying to get money just because she has 14 kids.  heck, I am just trying to realize how much money a year it would take to pay for 14 kids if they were all in perfect health.  I don't know how much she is going to get because it looks as though she is on the wrong end of public sympathy.  Leading the charge is TMZ (of all people).  They seem to be using their herds of reporters to track this woman.  Every Wii game that is purchased and every bicycle that she runs over, TMZ photographers are there to watch and report.
All I have to say to her is good luck with all of that and I really hope that you get that 15 minutes of fame because you have about 18 years of child-rearing that will knock your socks off.

Take a stand !

A job. That is all that these politicians are looking for today. They will say or do anything that will get them to capital hill or the state legislature. I have a novel idea for the budding politician, take a stand. Tell us exactly where you are on an issue. I don't care if I am for you or against you, just tell me where you are with it. Listening to the presidential hopefuls is very dis-heartening. They hem-haw around the issues giving so much rhetoric (thanks for that word Mrs. Stafford) that there is no answer to be found. We have pressing issues in the United States, the housing, job loss, the economy and the war in Iraq just to name a few. Tell me what your plan is. Don't dance around the subjects and tell me how bad it is and you will work to make it better, tell me the specifics.
I remember a while back when Ross Perot was running for president, the big gripe at the time was the deficit and a debate commentator asked all of the candidates what they were going to do to take care of the deficit. All of the candidates danced around the subject and then it came to Perot. Perot broke down how, exactly, he was going to pay off the debt. Some people didn't like what he said, but he had a plan. Perot knew exactly what he was going to do if he got elected.
Remember that the president is only one portion of the system. The system that we can control a lot more is congress. If you don't like what the president is doing, talk to your congressman. They are our elected officials to make sure that everything works smoothly in Washington. If you don't like how things are going, then you need to change out your congressman. Don't let them blame someone else, like "its the presidents fault" or "its the democrats/republicans fault". It is their fault. They are not listening to their constituents. If we can't get anything done because of the republican/democrat party lines, then we will just need to start electing independents so that they won't have that issue anymore.
Remember, it is still We The People. Take a stand with your elected officials. We as a people have become too lax and have let our politicians run amok. They throw some money at us to make us happy, all the while raking in a historical deficit. I don't care where you stand in the political arena, this is a larger issue. Currently I am watching Obama and McCain face off for the presidency and honestly, I think that I will vote for an independent. Neither of these two have a plan, other than a plan to get into the White House. Apparently if one has something to say that sounds good the other one has to go in completely the opposite way. Why is that? The 2 party system?
Let us not forget the media's roll in all of this. Apparently the news agencies have already chosen the next leader of the free world and are now trying to convince the voters to go their way. I don't need commentary when I watch the news, just the facts and lets try to make it somewhat fair by showing both candidates equally. Every time they show one candidate they should show the other one. The media goes to where it thinks the bigger story lies. If enough people make enough noise the media will turn on the politicians and maybe start helping out the average person.
Don't think that you might not be qualified to speak out against a particular candidate because you don't have as much schooling or you don't feel its your place. Your knowledge is needed, believe me. You also have as much right as anyone to ask questions and expect answers to those seeking office and especially to those in office that represent you. They work for you. You pay their salary. Now start acting like a boss and stop your employees from walking all over you!

Safety and Saving Money at the Gas Station

I know, I haven't wrote in a while. I guess that I could say that there was nothing to write about, but that would be a lie since there is always stupidity in the world.
A long, long time ago (10 years) auto makers started making these larger vehicles called "SUV's", I think that stood for Sports Utility Vehicles. I questioned people as to why they would need such a large vehicle, one of the responses that I received was 'Space'. After I would mention to that person that they are a family of three, their next response would be the inevitable 'Safety'. I had no come back to this reason other than to say that it was a self perpetuating safety since the only reason they are safer is that they are larger. If safety was your concern you sure weren't worried about the person in the Yugo that would get plowed by one of these monsters, but I digress.
I now want to know why these same people are selling their SUV's? If safety is such a large factor, then why such the massive sell off. Is it because fuel prices are $4+ a gallon? Could that be it? I don't understand how people could put a value on their families safety, how could they be so selfish about wanting to save a dollar or two (or ten to twenty) by selling their SUV's and buying a Prius. Or could the answer be that they lied to everyone and the reason they wanted that enormous, hulking monstrosity was to look cool and now it is too expensive to look cool? No, that couldn't be it..

Welcome to Black Friday

Well, I have survived the morning of black friday. If you are not familiar with this annual ritual than here is the lowdown. Retailers open up really early on the day after Thanksgiving with really low prices on a couple of items in their store. Problem being is that there are alot of people that want the advertised item at that really low price. Which means that there are near riots at these outlets for the advertised items.
I have to admit that it is kinda fun going out really early in the morning, waiting in line for hours on the of chance that I might be able to get one of these 'sale' items. This year was the first year that my wife didn't have to work on black friday so she accompanied me. Since I am protective of her this might have shown me the carnage that this really is.
Why is it that on black friday we are able to be rude and just plain mean to other people that we meet? To give an example I did black friday at Nebraska Furniture Mart in Kansas City, KS. We got there at 6am (doors open at 7am) and there was already a large mass of people that were there for the deals. When the doors fianally opened it was every person for themselves. Heaven forbid that someone gets to the $50 guitar hero II game before you do. I saw guys that were shoving women out of the way. I got through the mob of people that was surrounding the $10 DVD players and was able to get one. I figured I would be helpful and started grabbing the DVD players off of the pallet and handing them back to folks behind me. I thought that I would be thanked but instead about got the crap beat out of me due to folks that I failed to hand a DVD player.
Luckily my wife just stayed towards the front of the building which was probably the safest. The whole reason that we were there was an advertisement in the newspaper the day before that had a Compaq laptop for $250. What they failed to mention was that they would give out ticket vouchers to the first 200 people that showed up so that there wouldn't be a bunch of people running towards the cheap laptops. What kind of crap is that? Hell, all of the people there have broke every morale human code, might as well give them their just reward.
I guess what it comes down to is I have seen what I am like and I didn't really like it too much. I think that from now on I am just going to look for sales that are going on in different stores and online and buy from them. I will save all of the cage fighting for the experts in that field.

'fraid not law

I think that we should come out with a law that supercede's other laws, call it the 'fraid not law. This law would be used when people skirt around the law on a small technicality. Kinda like the double jeopardy law that says you cannot be tried for the same crime twice. The prosecutor could call " 'fraid not" and then set in motion the law.

Maybe it would consist of each side choosing 13-15 people and telling their side of the story then explain that if common sense dictated what would the outcome be? The outcomes would never set a precedent and the judges only job would be to make sure that everything is kosher, the judges hands would be tied as far as a ruling, that would be left up to the group of people.

My thought process is this, we the people make the laws of the land. When people skirt the law, they have basically found a way around what we were trying to block. Apparently, we hire all of these supposedly really smart people to go to Washington and make these laws for us. It seems that with all of their supposed knowledge they keep making mistakes and holes in the laws and letting people either run free when guilty or lock up someone who is innocent. Yes, thats right, we hire them. Which means after their term, they can be fired.

I think that something got lost

I know that I should have been writing articles about the Michael Vick saga, but to be quite honest I have been lazy and swamped at work and home. So now I am going to try to play catchup here.
Apparently this pretty popular football player has been accused of having dog fights on his property as well as raising and training dogs for this purpose. There has been no comment out of him since this was all raised. The interesting thing to me is that if you are totally innocent of any charges than why isn't there some lawyer or Vicks himself banging a drum saying that this is a conspiracy or "the man" is out to get him. Where is Al Sharpton and Jessie Jackson screaming about how it is a black person that was accused? I am by no means trying to sound racial because it isn't about that. It looks to me like there are a bunch of people getting paid alot of money sitting around brainstorming different stories that will sound plausable to the public, which is why we haven't heard a peep from anyone associated with him. Once a good story has been found, they will then come out and tell everyone what this story is. Is this how a role-models are suppose to behave? To hide behind other people until he can get his story straight?
My father always told me "Don't do the crime, if you can't do the time". If Vicks believes with all of his heart that dog fighting is where its at, then it would be worth it to him to go to jail for his convictions, but don't come to me and try to make up stories as to why this was done and I didn't know, etc.. This man was paid alot of money to do a job well, if he loved something else then he should have been pursuing that instead. Maybe starting a petition to make dog-fighting legal, I don't know.
I guess the gist of my rambling here is that I am tired of people that are making alot of money for my amusement all the while telling me how great they are then turning around and breaking the law with little to no retribution. Can you say Paris Hilton? Drunk driving?

Working on a new website

Hello all. I wanted to make sure that everyone knew that I was starting a new project, www.doggiecare.info.
I am hoping to get the site up completely within the next couple of weeks, depending on how busy I am at work and what my social schedule looks like.