The Rusted Musket

I wonder if history will remember the Iraqi who threw his shoe at George Bush?  If it does, will the text book editors have the event immortalized with a short text blip or a photo?  Either way, I read someones thoughts on the matter and they felt the Iraqi’s shoe throwing deed heroic.  To be honest, I thought it displayed what happens to someones throwing arm when they grow up not playing baseball.   Regardless, I thought the comment dumb.  Heroic, my butt, where were his shoes when Saddam was in power?

Christianity was much maligned during the early AD, this lead Christians to adopt a symbol called an Ichthus to communicate with fellow believers.  Christians in the 21st century aren’t maligned as much as they are marginalized, nonetheless we too use a method to quietly probe what might be a shared faith between intersecting strangers.  This subtle method I speak of can only be observed during the month of light bulbs and wrapping paper, also known as December and occurred to me while a vendor and I were chatting about next years upcoming products.  At some point during our conversation I received an urgent call to clean up a spill so my vendor started the necessary verbage to end the conversation.  I found myself listening for the code phrase, quite subconsciously mind you, that would tell me he was what I thought he was.  The last thing he said to me was “Merry Christmas” and not “Happy Holidays” like some Santa yuppie.  Of course I know many unbelievers say Merry Christmas too but this story is about my vendor who I did have previous inklings about something religiously familiar to me.  When my vendor said “Merry Christmas” all was well in my world because I knew then he was what I thought he was, that and he pretty much told me…

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The big story of the week, the one that’s going to make history and get America back behind the out of touch union is the saga of some now unemployed folk who used to work for some flunked Republic window and door company out of Illinois.  Basically, the laid off employees want their pensions and sick pay but the company has totally gone belly up.  Bizarrely, the employees (who for a lack of a better word are basically squatting in their former place of employment) are blaming the bank that releases the funds for the Republic’s payroll as the reason the Republic has no money!  Are you following this?  Um, I hate to break it to you guys but the bank doesn’t owe you that money, your old bosses do!  You’re not the banks employees, the banks don’t owe you squat.  And excuse me, isn’t asking the bank to shell out money willy nilly to people for no other reason than charity the very reason why the banks got into their financial mess in the first place!  Cough cough, hack, hack, home loans for minorities, illegal immigrants and moron middle classers who could never afford them.  Look, I’m sorry this sucks for you but the fact of the matter is you’re crap out of luck…

The reason you should own a gun, if you are lucky enough to live in a country that gives you this right is that as a citizen if you choose to not own a gun you are in essence giving the keys of your protection fully into the hands of the government. Do you think the government will always be benevolent and nice, incapable of wrong doing? The reader should be aware that Democracy’s are fragile things and have been manipulated by evil men.  Just ask the Jews in the 1930’s how Germany’s democratically elected government protected them. Still, despite their fragility, I would argue that a Democracy whether it be armed or unarmed is the best protection mankind has devised to thwart the plans of evil men.  I do see throughout history though good unarmed men losing to armed evil men every time, so why be unarmed, own a gun…

As I read this story on FoxNews.com, the idea for the title of this blog came to mind.  Have you really ever thought about how easy it is to be a Democrat?  Take for example a couple of paragraphs from that report:

‘But they could expect a chilly reception on Capitol Hill. Even a top Democrat in charge of evaluating their aid requests made it clear he was eager to avoid voting on a bailout. Sen. Chris Dodd, D-Conn., chairman of the Senate Banking Committee, wrote to Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke on Wednesday asking the central bank chief whether there was anything stopping him from using his considerable lending authority to help the automakers.

And Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., said it was up to the Bush administration to unilaterally rescue the Big Three with loans drawn from the $700 billion Wall Street rescue fund, since Congress was still unwilling to do so. “I just don’t think we have the votes to do that now,” he told The Associated Press.’

I have taken the liberty to place in bold some of points I’d like you to ponder.  Does anyone else see a fundamental problem with this?  What this quote really comes down to is the Democratic party wants a bailout, pushes for a bailout, but when it comes time to take responsibility for the bailout, they want President Bush and his administration to push it through.  Oh how easy it is to be a Democrat.

Another example, found here, shows how easy it is to be a Democrat at the highest level.

“I suspect the American people would be troubled if I selected a treasury secretary or a chairman of an economic council at one of the most critical economic times in our history who had no experience in government whatsoever,”  – President Elect BarackHussein Obama

First of all, let’s forget about the part where he talks about bringing someone in with no experience in government, as that is a discussion for another day.  What I’d like you to focus on the is fact that nearly every person The One has brought in to his new administration are old-school Democrats from previous administrations.  What that says to me is that it’s way easier to do something that’s been done than to do something new.  Another reason it’s so easy to be a Democrat.

Let me leave you with this thought:  I guess campaigning as a party on the slogan “Change we can believe in” is great until you’re elected.  Then the slogan becomes “Change.  People actually believed it!”  Thanks, Democrats, for giving us…uh…hope?

Apparently you can hire the CEO’s of Ford, GM, and Chrysler for a buck each.  Interesting huh, I wondered for a second if the gimmic would work, but then I remembered of course it would.  I’m going to call it out right now, the auto industry will absolutely be bailed out.  The UAW trust fund deposits the Big Three owe will conveniently be delayed by the UAW until Barrack is fully in the White House.  Then dear friends, its bailout time.

One thing I have learned over the years of working at a school is that kids never come looking for their lunches when they accidentally leave them sitting somewhere other than their locker.  Today Jacob left his lunch in the lobby and I was lucky enough to come across his forgotten lunch some two hours later.  I peeked inside, it was a real solid lunch.  Jacobs mom packed two Kool-Aid Jammers, fruit snacks, cookies, 1 Kudos bar, a good sized bag of chips, and a sandwich.  As fate would have it, my lunch today is not so good, this will definitely compliment it.  So thank you Jacob, thank you for having a case of Monday forgetfulness:)

Who isn’t aware of America’s desire to secularize any and every holiday into something more palatable for her pagan minority.  Alas, even though Thanksgiving does not have an Easter Bunny or Santa Claus to detract from the real meaning of the season it is not immune.  Here is my thought, if Thanksgiving isn’t about being thankful to God what then pray tell is it you’re supposed to be thankful towards?  The government, the garbage guys, the turkey, what?!  This Thanksgiving I will give thanks to my Creator for the overabundance He provides even in the midst of what we call a recession and the end of the world as we know it…

I bought the limited edition Fallout 3 that came with the lunchbox, the bobblehead, and the behind the scenes DVD exclusive. I bought Fallout 3 because I was excited for a post apocalyptic RPG shooter blend, not because I was familiar with Fallout 1 and 2. And then I played the game and it was amazing, the vault was spectacular and when I left the vaults safety I felt awestruck by the wastelands chaotic majesty. And then, what felt like seconds later, I beat the game and was totally dumbstruck. I thought I was only half way through the game! The story had just started rolling and I’d only spent about 6 hours on the main quest. I wish I would’ve known to make a hard save before telling one of the NPC’s that I was “ready to go” whereby kicking off the final mission. At the end of this last mission I died, not in the “crap I just died” kinda way, I died because the game killed me. I reloaded, I died again, I reloaded and tried to get out of that horrible chamber of endgameness, but just like the Hotel California, you can check out anytime you like, but you can never leave. You must end the game, and your character must die. It occurred to me at this point that no matter how much I wanted it, there would be no coming back to the world of Fallout 3 after beating the main quest for this hero, even if the hero had only 40% of the side quests done. And the real kicker is the final end chamber battle and climax is so underwhelming you hardly believe it’s the same game. Truth be told, the blundering main storyline isn’t Fallout 3’s only flaw, the graphics kinda suck, the lack of different skins for special weapons is lame, and you can’t create and custom name anything a la Oblivion. Really, the neatest thing about Fallout 3 are the side quests, these are phenomenal triumphs of apocalyptic awesomeness, and worth playing.

All in all I feel so horrible about the way this game ended I’m tempted to sell Fallout 3 on Ebay while I can still get a solid $40 for it. I think I’ll keep the lunchbox and bobblehead though:)