Daily Archives: Wednesday October 1st, 2008

Today was a complete bust on working out for me.  I had only gotten 5hrs of sleep so it really sucked the life out of me.  So I planned on only 15min on the treadmill and then weights.  But we encountered our 1st asshole at the gym and left early.  I did get some of my abs in.  I normally do some more abs in before my shower, but I could barely do them….just felt like crap.

I did some work but I couldn’t get my mind to work, so we laid down for about hour.  I felt so much better afterwards.  I finally got my work done this evening, that was tough….not motivated as much.

I found this interesting article from last President child that actually served in combat, while his dad was in office  : Presidential Children Don’t Belong in Battle 

I read this article the other day and I have been disturbed by it ever since  :  McCain and the POW Cover-up

This man has been responsible for lost of 100s of men by covering it up and treating the families of MIA/POWs like crap.  I can never look at McCain the same again.  What little respect I had left for him has been trampled on.

Watching The Daily Show tonight and Stewart brought up a point that has been bothering me for while…just because some one lives in the city or big town does not mean that they are any less American then someone in a small town in Midwest or Alaska.  I’m getting sick and tired of them saying that they are the “true Americans”  BULLSHIT!  I’ve lived in small towns, big towns, army posts, and on the outskirts of a city…….we are all True Americans.  Living in small towns doesn’t mean you are any better then the rest of us or our experience is any less American, because that is bullshit.  Hello, it was the “city dwellers” of Boston that helped to stand up to the British….New York was the our nation’s capital before DC, the Declaration was written in Philly.  All cities, large for their time.  It was the ideals of the Enlightenment that was started in the cities of Europe that helped to give our founding fathers their ideals and the determination to do what was right.

Small towns have the same issues as cities, just smaller since most people know each other so it is easier to control.  The problem that I have with really small towns, is that unless they have diversity, that you come across a lot more racism.  Is that a True American?