Monthly Archives: October 2008

but I have to mention politics.  We watched the debate last night and I really hope McCain is defeated in a month.  His health ‘plan’ is a disaster in the waiting.  Here is a news flash; $5,000 is a drop in the bucket compared to what a comprehensive health plan costs for a family.  Oh, great, I GET TO SHOP 50 STATES for health insurance.  Lets see, 50 states x25 major insurers per state x25 plans each=31,250 possible health plans I HAVE TO CHOOSE FROM.  Thanks.  We really need that kind of choice to make.  If I compare 10 per day, it will only take me 8.56 YEARS to choose the right plan.  I can’t even choose a salad dressing.

Another thing.  Should I stop paying my mortgage now if my house lost value?  The government will just come in and renegotiate my mortgage at the new value.  I could use the extra money in my bank account.  No risk for me.  I should of bought a more expensive home to foreclose on.  Great plan.  And I thought the wall street bailout was bad.

One last thing.  It is good to know if we have Osama Bin Laden in our sights, we wouldn’t want to upset  Pakistan to get him.  Sounds familiar to me, ala Bush.

Just about everything he said was like Bush, except even worse.   Endless war, bailout plans and the bogeyman of higher taxes.  The best thing though is, if he dies in office, we get Palin.

Over the past few months during my fleeting free time at work, I have been copying over a now defunct website called blindwino.com It was written by Mark “Driver” Thompson.   His writings inspired me to create cyberphreak.com 10 years ago.  So, head over to blindwino.cyberphreak.com to read his writings.  They are a hard  PG-13, so please, no little kids.  I left all the words intact, so the F-bomb is quite often dropped.

I think you will be amused if you have never read Mark Driver’s works.

I think the most shocking thing about the 700 billion handout is how it was started.  The United States has over 300,000,000 people, with the largest economy in the world.  The financial debacle has been brewing for decades and probably a dozen administrations.  Tens of millions of people are directly involved with it.  How did the Bush administration react?  With a THREE PAGE plan!!!!  Three Pages.  The manual to my TOASTER is longer than that.  It takes more than three pages to describe how a toaster works, but that is all that it takes TO FIX THE LARGEST ECONOMY OF THE WORLD.  The ineptitude of this administration is amazing.  A third grade book report on Charlotte’s Web is probably about 3 pages.  I am not surprised at all that it is over 400 pages.  You know, something that an adult could right.

Either way, I think the plan is stupid and flawed.  What we really need is New New Deal.   Something that fixes our infrastructure, not swaps one piece of paper for another.  You can’t drive on paper bridges, you can’t teach kids inside of a figure in a database.  You can’t rebuild levies with stock swaps.  We need to roll up our sleeves and actually start making things again.  That is how you really fix this country.

Sadly, I am not hearing this from either candidate.  All I hear is Change.  Change to what?  We are dealing with a pivotal point in American history, and we are talking about gay marriage and hockey moms.  The best qualified people, Hillary Clinton and Joe Biden  sadly do not have the presidential nomination.  We have a motivational speaker and grandpa running for president.  It is a hard choice, and frankly, I think they both suck.

Enough ranting for now.  Later today we are going to visit the Heston Steam Museum for the first time with Glenn.  I haven’t been there in 20 years, probably, and Tiffany and Glenn have never seen a steam train.  I hope the weather holds out.

Finally found a decent way to upload my photos and post them on the blog.  So, to that end, either use the page navigation to the right or explore:

Black and White

Decay

Flowers

Parrots

I was finally able to capture some mysterious wild parrots (parakeets?) on Bell Avenue in La Grange. This has no relation to Bell Avenue in Chicago, this Bell runs East/West. These birds feed around 12:15 P.M. every day, and I was finally able to capture some photos.  Today I saw nearly a dozen birds.  Weird man.