The Rusted Musket

It’s funny, but I believe the Federal Government did for Ford what Ford could never have done for themselves, get me to buy one of their cars. The reason for this hit me the other day while starring at the bumper of an F150, simply put, Ford didn’t take a bailout when all others were…

Just ran across this quote and found it thought provoking…

It’s a recession when your neighbor loses his job; it’s a depression when you lose yours.
Harry S Truman (1884 – 1972), in Observer, April 13, 1958

Since Sharron Angle and Christine O’Donnell won their primaries there has been quite a few articles about how the Tea Party is going to push the GOP to the right and how this will make it harder for them to win since it will alienate the “non-ideological” voters.

I find that these authors are missing a very key point that is staring them right in the face… Just to preface my next point, a lot of people just plain don’t vote. While the last Presidential election had a 63% turnout other elections, especially congressional ones, often have much lower turnouts. So with that in mind, I’m guessing that a portion of those non-voters are people who are conservative but don’t vote for the GOP candidates because they don’t agree on key issues.

I’m not saying that all 37% of those people who didn’t vote will come out and vote because there are actual conservative candidates. But this election could be close enough that if even 5% choose to vote it could make a very big difference…

In short, Reach is the best Halo game Bungie’s ever made, but I know you’ve already heard that from every other reviewer on the planet so I’m going to skip repeating that stuff and tell you what I think misses the mark.

To be blunt, the campaign’s emotion is all out of sync, the cut scenes, to be honest, don’t even come close to gathering the type of emotion released by the pre-launch Reach commercials of Spartans leaping threw air with pistol and bomb in hand. Yep, so the game will end and secretly you’ll be wishing they’d ended it with some awesome live action video short that time and time again, stretching back to Halo 3, has been blowing your mind.

My next complaint is about firefight because firefight achievements are not cool. How am I supposed to get 1,000,000 firefight points without making some sort of lame modified map using rockets only and slugging out 750 Elite kills over the span of 40 minutes. That and there isn’t really any reason to play all the firefight maps but your favorite because each map no longer has its own achievement like ODST did.

Last but not least, my personal favorite, for God’s sake do infected mode the right way with the Flood as the infected character skins, a no braaaaaainer…

And that dear reader is about all the complaints I can muster…

P.S. The thumbnail image is me getting blasted:)

Just found this must read article: http://politics.usnews.com/opinion/mzuckerman/articles/2010/09/10/public-sector-workers-are-the-new-privileged-elite-class.html?PageNr=1

All the private sector workers are paying more and more to cover the cost of millions of public sector workers, who despite generally poor performance, get pay raises and basically can’t be fired. They have great pensions, short hours and can retire earlier then the rest of this hard working nation. Why should we be paying higher and higher taxes for these people when our pay is being cut and we are losing jobs? There really needs to be a independent group/commission that determines their wages. Instead we have the same people that benefit from wage increases determine these things. Total conflict of interest!

We have a important election before us, please think about who you vote for and really look at the issues that they are promising to take on. The candidates who will reduce public sector spending are worth our votes!