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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?

I usually enjoy watching Real Time with Bill Maher, but last night was very lacking.  For one he had Nader on there and he keep grandstanding…and commentator Lisa Schiffren really didn’t add a thing.  So it wasn’t the great.  But what really bother me is Maher’s comments about Palin.

Now I can’t stand her….she is totally against all the things that I stand for, totally the opposite of women issues.  She doesn’t have the knowledge to be a heart beat away from the presidency.  She has never expanded her thoughts and experiences outside of her little corner of the world.  She is in over her head, with no thanks to McCain, so is horrible and ignorant sounding in interviews, because she is.

So I have reasons for being against her and the McCain ticket, but what I really hate is the fact that people use her gender to argue against.  Show how she doesn’t have the knowledge but do not call her a bimbo!  I don’t’ tell me that can apply to a man…that is a cop out and bullshit.  The pop culture definition applies it to women and that is sexist.

Bimbo :

Bimbo is a term that emerged in popular English language usage in the early 20th Century to describe an often attractive, yet unintelligent woman. The usage of this term began in the United States as early as 1919. The 1929 silent film Desert Nights describes a cheap female crook as a bimbo. This word derives from the Italian bimbo, a word deriving from “bambino” (=child) a masculine term gender that means (male) baby or very young (male) child (its feminine equivalent is bimba). The 50’s song “Bimbo”, about a toddler, was one of the early hits for the popular American singer Jim Reeves. Its first usage in English was for stupid men; it now is understood to mean a woman unless modified as male bimbo, himbo or mimbo. Some still prefer the explicitly female variant bimbette, which has also entered The American Heritage Dictionary. Others use bimbette for a younger bimbo, because the suffix “-ette” signifies a smaller version as in French or Spanish “-ito/-ita” suffix.

An older comedy archetype of perhaps more direct resemblance to the bimbo is the dumb blonde —for example, the giggling, naïveMarilyn Monroe or, as she appeared on characters portrayed by such sultry actresses as Laugh-In, Goldie Hawn.

Do not refer to the fact that she has 5 kids…or say that she “shoots them out”.  That is sexist.  You don’t find the media making an issue out of the fact that male politicians have kids.  So what if she has 5 kids…..the only issue I have is that she doesn’t believe in teaching conception and her daughter is pregnant….sounds like she should’ve talked to her about it.  Otherwise who cares that her daughter is pregnant, this has been going on for centuries.

Another thing that really bothered me is how he talked about Alaska….as if they were stupid.  Yes, they have her as governor….but like all politicians she lied and mispresented herself….what else is new?  And they thought she would fight corruption not add to it.

Yes, Alaska has issues…what state doesn’t?  But what people don’t fully get is that Alaska is still somewhat like the wild-west.  It is sparsely popluated and can be very hard living.  Most folks just want to be left alone, so it can be easy for the wrong people to advance……….but that is like so many states.  So don’t diss Alaskans based on Palin.

Like I said, I normally enjoy Bill Maher’s comments and observations, but he really crossed the line for me last night.

Harold  says that the problem with Palin is that she is female and that you can’t attack her without being accused of being sexist.  But that is not true, you can attack her….attack her on her issues, her lack of knowledge, her horrible interviews….it is not until you use gendered basis attacks that you are being sexist.  Using bimbo was sexist.  But she is a politican, I don’t care that she is female, she needs to be examined and questioned like every other politican.

Well, Purdue lost.  =(  Penn St won….we are so dead next week, Penn St is great.

We were talking about what seems to be missing the last few years.  And it is Drew Brees…not his skill, but his heart.  Purdue doesn’t seem to have heart and everything we have read, Brees has the heart for winning.  That seems to fit, because when you look at Penn St, hell Joe Pa has probably more heart then his whole team and that has a huge effect on them even during bad years.

If you haven’t already heard, we lost another great actor and philanthopist, Paul Newman =(

Here is an article I read in my Time that I got today  :  ‘Real’ Journalists Could Learn from The View I thought it had some very intersting observations.  Mainsteam journalist could learn something from it.

I’ve been doing good on the treadmill, just need to stick around long on the weights.  Hard to motivate on those after 30min on the treadmill…but I need to.  I need to get that burn.  I am getting a burn in my abs.  I’ve increased the weight that I do on the ab machine.  When we get home, I do abs in the bedroom on my mat.  But I need to get the burning in my legs and my arms.  I worked somewhat on my arms today.  So tomorrow I’m going to go after my legs and try to get them burn.  May need to add incline back into the treadmill again, I haven’t been doing them as much been working on adding more distance within 30mins.

I’ve been getting work done, no where as much as I need to.  I really need to add more to the store.  But I’m a political news junky and with what has been going on I have a hard time staying away from news sites even if they haven’t updated.  That and I haven’t been motivated after all I did this past weekend.
This bailout…..I don’t know.  I don’t think they deserve the bail outs…..all this “descision makers” who have played it fast and loose….screw them.  BUT I worry about the rambations that will hit the rest of us if it doesn’t go through.  More about people like our parents….my dad has always been careful with their money and invested it safely….so I worry about that.  I worry about my in-laws pensions hoping that they aren’t at risk.

Then McCain pulling a political stunt….what an ass.  He is not putting “country first”, he must think that we are stupid.  He also doesn’t want to admit that Palin isn’t ready for the debate.

I really like this commentary :  Commentary: Sexist treatment of Palin must end

They point out that she facing sexism, not from the media but from McCain’s campaign.  They are doing the “manly” thing and protecting her from the “big-bad media”.  How much more sexist is that?  She is a poliation and she needs to be treated like every other person running for office.  I’m sick and tired of the special treatment she gets…no questions from the reporters…trying to use the media to show her in a foreign policy environment yet refuse to allow them to be there more then 30secs?  What the hell?

It is so frustrating to read the news sometimes, but I have to know what is going on.  It doesn’t help that I’m addictated to political magazines…The Nation, American Spector, MS, and Bitch and they sometimes highlight the injustices in the world that you know we shouldn’t have.

I need to put away the laundry….I have a huge pile of it….icks.