Why I should not be president

Yes folks I had to wait until there was enough stuff but here is my latest installment of why I should not be president.

I should not be president because I would not give trillions of dollars to people that didn't handle it right the first time. I would not give more money out until someone proved to the American people who inevitably foots the bill that the last time money was given out some good came of it. Yes that means jobs and things actually getting better (and no, rising oil prices is not a clear indication that things are getting better in the us).

I should not be president because my definition of accountability isn't that if it is improperly spent it has to be paid back. My definition is you spend it wrong you pay it back and you go to jail. Anytime someone uses taxpayer money for personal use they go to court about it... heck lets take three random people off the street for a tribunal instead of paying all the court fees and ask them if they feel that thousands or millions of dollars spent by these people would have helped them if it hadn't been spent by this guy/ gal. Hmmm I know what my answer would be.

I should not be president because instead of increasing our debt to fix our economy I would be setting up a committee to find why the hell we are in the fix we are. Why is our government paying out as much as it does? Why do immigrants get tax breaks? Why are we spending so much money every year figuring out and collecting taxes. It should be easy clear cut across the board. Fair to everyone with no tax breaks for anyone. You want a tax break? How about you support a charity... when that charity helps people enough so that the government doesn't have to help those people than you get a tax break. Same across the board for everyone including churches.... or wait... if you are in a church you get a tax break if there have been no sex scandals involving your clergy.

I should not be president because I feel that the appropriate punishment for a sex offense with a minor should be a severing of the spinal cord at the neck making a person a quadriplegic... I think that might actually stop them from doing it again.

I think the most children a person should have if they are not married is two by different fathers. If its the same father and the man is involved in her life and picks up his share of the child care expenses it doesn't matter. We need to start controlling our population now, before we run out of renewable resources.

That is today's rant on why I should not be president.

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Sqip (pronounced Squip)

OK you all know I am a wee bit of a geek... alright a really big geek. Well, my honey just pointed out something new to me a new social networking site that hasn't launched yet. A site that is predicted to surpass Myspace and Facebook in terms of social networking potential.

The thing is if you sign up early enough you can get a hundred free shares (can't beat free) and so when they go public or sell the shares or however they do this thing just because you signed up early and helped promote it you can make some money.

So anyway sign up http://affiliate.sqipcom.com/?user=gabeir

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One of Those Days

First, let me say that I am very proud of my seven year old son he is growing up so quick..

I got up this morning and discovered our black lab had pooped on the floor in the living room. Grr... so I put him out and cleaned up the mess. Then my son wanted some breakfast so I washed my hands and made him some cereal. Went to walk through the living room and discovered that our little dog , a terrier, had peed on the floor. Grumble, grumble... I pick the little dog up and put her out and let the big dog in and clean up the puppy pee. I then proceeded to get dressed for work (no I was not running around naked I was wearing shorts and a t-shirt). I come back out after getting dressed to discover that our big dog, not wanting to be out done by our little dog had peed on the floor. Ranting and raving put him out and clean up that mess. I wash my hands and get my son some clothes so he can get dressed for school (He isn't naked either he has a great pair of Spider man pajamas he was wearing). I let the big dog back in and give the cats their food. I think I wash my hands again then I start to make myself some tuna fish sandwiches for work draining the juice from the tuna into the cat food. "Dad! there's poop on the floor!" yells my son at me. I set the bowl I of tuna on the counter. @#$%&! I grab the little dog that had now pooped on the floor to throw her outside again and she pees on me. Long string of unuttered expletives run through my head. I put her out and clean up the mess. "Son get your coat and boots on we have to leave soon." I go to the bathroom to wash my hands. I come out and the black lab is licking his lips and looks guilty. I go into the kitchen and discover that more than half of my tuna is gone. I put the rest in the cat food dish. Throw the other dog outside. I've had it. "Dad, did you put tuna in the cat's food?" "Yes" I go change my work clothes. I come back out my son isn't ready to go yet he is standing on a chair looking into the cat food dish separating the tuna so each of the cats can get some. "Jeremy! get down and get ready to go !" I yell at my son. He gets down and looks at me, he doesn't cry, he doesn't yell, but in a calm voice he asks, "Dad, why are you yelling?" At this point I realize how unfair of me it was to yell at him, "I'm sorry son, just having a bad day what with the dogs pissin' and poopin' on the floor and Max eating my lunch. I'm sorry." He doesn't say anything he just gets his coat on and his boots. We let the dogs in and walk quietly to the car and I bring him to daycare. we get out of the car and he hugs me, "I love you" he says as we squish each other. "I love you too, boy."

So my little boy is growing up. He doesn't panic or cry if someone yells at him when he doesn't do anything wrong he asks why. He dealt with things in a mature manner. I love my little guy and am proud of him.

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The Chronicles of the Necromancer

As I have started doing recently, when I finish a book I will kick out a quick mention of it here. I just finished last night book 2 of the Chronicles of the Necromancer, "The Blood King" by Gail Z Martin.

It is a good read and could have ended with this book. It connects solidly with the first book "The Summoner" which ended leaving me hanging. Following the main character and his friends it gives the right mix of action and romance and avoids much of the gore that could be slipped into a book dealing with the living, the undead and the dead.

In book one Matris Drake (the main character) barely avoided regicide as his brother took by force the crown that he would have inherited in time. In the stress of his escape he comes into his powers that he inherited from his long dead grandmother the summoner Bava Kaa. In his escape he gains allies and learns of the evil his brother and his mage the vampire (although they call them by a different name in the book) do. By the end of the book it is clear he needs to go back to his home and over throw his brother.

In book two, he trains to overthrow his brother and stop him and his mage from bringing back the Obsidian King, a powerful spirit of a necromancer trapped in a crystal. When the Obsidian King returns there are no mages strong enough to fight him and will grant power to those that free him. Oh and bring hell on earth as well.

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Taxes

It is that time of year again. The time when we either dread paying money to the government or the time we look forward to getting a refund check. This is the time that many people have a part time job doing people's taxes. Personally, I don't think we should pay an income tax. I think it penalizes the working man/woman. How would that work? Read a book called "The Fair Tax". Enough of this though time for my rant.

I filed my taxes and I am getting back close to what I put in. I am claiming myself and one child and it comes out basically even. The basic family unit in the US calls for two parents and two children and maybe a dog or a cat or whatever (sorry no tax break on the pet). So from a social management standpoint (which includes population controls) we should break even at two children and two parents or for parents that file separately one parent one child.

Now I know you are wondering what does that have to do with anything? Well I hear one person I work with complain because being single with no children he gets less tax breaks and every year he owes the government. Then he sees single mommies or welfare people (sorry I have no control over either what he sees or what he complains about) getting back more money than they put in. The thing that gets me wondering is how does this balance for the government? I know this year it won't. Thanks to our economic stimulus package we as individuals will get slightly more money. It won't save jobs the checks we are getting back, but it looks like the government is helping. What is really happening is the government is sinking farther in debt with no long term return on its quick shot of cash and every year it does this will make people ask why can't we have it again? There is an ancient Chinese proverb, "Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and you feed him for life." Giving us fish isn't going to help us in the long run.

Wow I ranted about both the government stimulus mess and taxes at the same time... Good golly. Anyway back to taxes I think they should use the taxes to encourage our basic family unit two parents and two children. I don't think people should get a free ride (stimulus package bad) and I think our whole tax system is a labor intensive dinosaur that needs to be revamped to encourage business and family in our country.

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The Last Centurian

"The Last Centurion" by John Ringo. I finished it a couple of days ago. It is based about twenty years into the future. The whole world is in crisis as the bird flu and a new ice age cuts the world's population in half. What makes matters worse is the president in the book doesn't follow the disaster plan that was ready. She also doesn't recognize the ice age because she believes that it is a side effect of global warming. Ringo gives us the story of a soldier (Bandit Six) and chronicles his journey home from the middle east and his struggles to do the right thing regardless of orders. I won't go into details here, but suffice it to say it was a good story and an excellent read.

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I'm sorry

There are many times when "I'm sorry" is the right thing to say. When you hurt someone, when you accidentally do something, or if something is truly your fault.

I get sometimes "I'm sorry i am such a hard person to live with." from my fiancee sometimes. Now I wish she would tell me exactly how she is hard to live with. Is it because she doesn't want to clean up after the four kids, two dogs, three cats, rat, fish, herself and me by herself? Or maybe its because she works 40 hours a week out of the home bringing home money to help pay bills and then turns around and does some work from home? Oh, I know its the way that if something is bothering her she actually communicates issues she has so they can be fixed?

There are just so many ways that a person can be hard to live with. And for when she reads this... You are not a hard person to live with and I love you.

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Chat rooms

If you have gone into the chat rooms lately then you probably have been inundated with requests to go to other people's web sites. Pick a site (maybe yours, or someone you know) and when they ask you to go to their site ask them to go that site. It will be fun.

My goal

I have never been a small person... I have always thought myself atleast chubby. When I was 14 I weighed 160 pounds at about 5 ft tall. By the time I turned 19 I had reached 200+. There came a point in my life when I realized I was never going to be "skinny", so I decided to be strong instead. I have always been physically strong , but now I have come up against my first real obstacle to that. I have an injury and I can't lift weights the way I used to, not without causing pain. I still have the muscle I put on before, but I can't lift heavy enough to add to it. I am not looking at pity here andf this is not a sob story. Now I must adapt and do more cardio (yech) because if I was going to be big I was going to be strong. So now that that is no longer an option now I need to work on becoming healthier and more toned and losing all the extra weight so that I can be more defined.