Mommy went to Jail

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Yeah, kid, she should have gone to jail.

Now does anyone disagree with me that some people are simply unfit to be parents?!

Anticipation

In anticipation of what looks to be a great weekend, I leave you with a little Dave Matthews:

Best of What's Around
Hey, my friend
It seems your eyes are troubled
Care to share your time with me
Would you say you're feeling low and so
A good idea would be to get it off of your mind

See, you and me
Have a better time than most can dream
Have it better than the best
And so can pull on through
Whatever tears at us
Whatever holds us down
And if nothing can be done
We'll make the Best of What's Around

Turns out not where but who you're with
That really matters
That really matters
And hurts not much when you're around
When you're around

And if you hold on tight
To what you think is your thing
You may find you're missing all the rest
She ran up into the light surprised
Her arms are open
Her mind's eye is...

Seeing things from a
Better side than most can dream
On a better road I feel
So you could say she's safe
Whatever tears at her
Whatever holds her down
And if nothing can be done
She'll make the best of what's around

Turns out not where but what you think
That really matters
That really matters
That really matters

See, you and me
Have a better time than most can dream
Have it better than the best
And so can pull on through
Whatever tears at us
Whatever holds us down
And if nothing can be done
We'll make the Best of What's Around

Turns out not where but who you're with
That really matters
That really matters
That really matters
And hurts not much when you're around
When you're around

Oh Boo Hoo

Airports have now begun asking those wearing turbans to take off their head-wear for security purposes. The Sikhs are angry about this.

(CBS) NEW YORK The new federal policy of checking hats when going through airport security is causing a serious controversy, with many now asking: Is it a necessary security measure or another act of religious or racial profiling?

Perhaps after the national embarrassment of a monkey getting through Transportation Security Administration agents under a man's hat and ending up on a plane departing Peru and bound for Fort Lauderdale, Fla., and then onto another plane bound for New York City on Aug. 8, officials decided to make changes in policies regarding hats.

Even if you made it through airport security, federal TSA screeners can now search or pat down a passenger's hat in search of illegal items or weapons. Seems fair enough for many passengers, even those with hats...

Others see where the system is skewed, however.

One group in particular -- Sikhs -- agrees, saying the new TSA hat policy is focused on those who wear turbans is in effect a form of racial profiling.

Enough already. Some guy got a monkey on a plane because of his 'hat.' Others could have guns or knives or bombs under their turbans. I say we should have been uncovering all headgear - baseball caps, helmets, turbans, yarmulkes, scarves, etc., a long long time ago. It is incredibly feasible that someone would have a weapon under one of those -just like I could have a boxcutter in my flip flop.

The TSA does not- and should not care about whether or not a Sikh is upset with their new rules. I don't like that I have to carry toiletries in a plastic bag, but you don't see airport security bending the rules for me. (Not to mention, I don't exactly fit the profile of an Islamic terrorist- sorry to "profile.") We all have to take off our jackets and shoes. Why should those with turbans be exempt?

Now this really gets me going:

Prablyit Singh, a Sikh who wears his turban as part of his religion, was stopped recently when he flew out of his home airport in Washington D.C.

He objected to having his turban patted down after he had passed the metal detector, and says TSA agents gave him a hard time afterward, yelling at him.

"What I had to go through was not only humiliating, but a demeaning situation to get onto this flight," Singh says.

Singh finally agreed to the pat down, but as is required by his religion, asked it be done in private.

A message to the Sikhs- you are not the victims here. Pardon the detail, but everytime my underwire bra sets off the metal detector or I refuse to take my shoes off, they pull me aside between the little glass dividers and pat me down all over. And if a large wand between your legs and around your breasts isn't uncomfortable and humiliating, I don't know what else is. Objecting to the pat-down is NOT an option.

So go cry to your momma, but I want to be sure the airports have checked your turban for weapons of terrorism.

And if you don't have to take your turban off, I'm not taking off my shoes!

Has Fred Thompson lost the mojo?

Fred Thompson is evidently going to announce his intent to run for President on September 6th. Despite the previous rumors about the Fourth of July and Jay Leno's show, I'm inclined to believe this is it, as he was quoted saying he'd like to run a more traditional campaign, announcing the fall before the election and he needs to start building a presence in Iowa, South Carolina, and New Hampshire.

That- and they just flat out told me in an email:

Dear Friends,

On September 6, 2007, Fred Thompson will be announcing his intention to run for President of the United States with a webcast available to millions at www.imwithfred.com. The launch of the video will be followed by a five-day campaign tour through Iowa, New Hampshire and South Carolina. On the evening of the 6th, there will also be a National House Party, during which there will be a conference call with Fred.

Yawn. Same stuff everytime.

So what does this mean for the GOP? Frankly, I've lost the Fred-zy. I'm not sure it matters. I don't know that he's got enough mojo now...

Edwards' Escape from the SUV argument

Hippocrite [hippo-crit] noun
[origin: 2007, Little Miss Sunshine, circa August]

1. A massive thick-skinned person who pretends to have virtues, moral or religious beliefs, principles, etc., that he or she does not actually possess, esp. a person whose actions belie stated beliefs.

2. a Hypocrite of gargantuan proportion

3. John Edwards

TAG BANNED

They've banned Tag in Colorado- you know, the game where "you're it" and then the slow kids get laughed at because they can't catch up to anyone fast enough to tag them back? Oh good memories...

All joking aside,

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) - An elementary school has banned tag on its playground after some children complained they were harassed or chased against their will.

"It causes a lot of conflict on the playground," said Cindy Fesgen, assistant principal of the Discovery Canyon Campus school.

Running games are still allowed as long as students don't chase each other, she said.

Fesgen said two parents complained to her about the ban but most parents and children didn't object.

In 2005, two elementary schools in the nearby Falcon School District did away with tag and similar games in favor of alternatives with less physical contact. School officials said the move encouraged more students to play games and helped reduce playground squabbles.

Do you think these children were complaining, or perhaps, their parents?

Hmmm...no running, no hugging, no tag... Let's just BAN ALL FUN from school!

I suppose I'm not as upset about TAG, since it is pretty meaningless and torturesome to the slow chunky kids who like to read, or the little girls who would rather gossip about their new lipgloss on the tires. But, does that mean Duck-Duck-Goose is out too? Now that is something we could consider suing the school for!

Too funny!

Check out Check Engine Soon to brighten your day!

We're #1, Hey!

This just in:

GENEVA (Aug. 28) - The United States has 90 guns for every 100 citizens, making it the most heavily armed society in the world, a report released on Tuesday said.

U.S. citizens own 270 million of the world's 875 million known firearms, according to the Small Arms Survey 2007 by the Geneva-based Graduate Institute of International Studies.

About 4.5 million of the 8 million new guns manufactured worldwide each year are purchased in the United States, it said.

If you read this story, you'll get a kick out of the comments. I'm actually quite proud of this statistic. To me, it proves we are a society, in some ways, of personal responsibility. AND, we take our freedoms seriously (See Second Amendment, US Constitution). I recognize that some individuals abuse their freedom and use guns for the wrong purpose. It's those stories that make the news and turn all the gun-control freaks to crying "take them away!"

But if I want a gun, and as a sane individual have no plans to use it except for hunting, shooting as sport, or personal protection where it would lie locked in a safe place away from my children, who is to tell me I can't have one?

Now we just have to convince the legislature here in WI to pass conceal-carry. Who's with me?

Oh, did I mention, girls like 'em big?

I'm so over Katrina

My more-conservative Good Morning America sincerely disappointed me today with yet another segment on "Katrina: 2 years later."

WHY do we consider people waiting for the government to pull them up out of sinking sand to be NEWS?

Farmer's Almanac forgot Global Warming

The Farmer's Almanac is predicting a "two-faced" winter for the Northeast in 2008.

"The almanac's 2008 edition, which goes on sale Tuesday, foresees plenty of snow across the Northeast, temperatures averaging as much as 3 degrees below normal along most of the Atlantic Coast, and four major frosts as far south as Florida. The Great Lakes region will also take a pounding."

HA! Take that, all you oh-no-global-warming-the-ice-is-melting whiners!

"The outlook is tamer for the Great Plains, the Rocky Mountains, the desert Southwest and the Pacific Coast, but Geiger said snow in Colorado will be more than adequate for skiing.

Other predictions include a cool, wet spring in many places, active tornado and hurricane seasons and a warmer-than-normal summer in much of the country."

Maybe it's just as goofy to believe the almanac as it is to believe in global warming. BUT,

"The forecasts are prepared two years in advance by the almanac's reclusive prognosticator, who goes by the pseudonym Caleb Weatherbee and uses a secret formula based on sunspots, the position of the planets and the tidal action of the moon. Weatherbee has already completed his 2009 forecast, Geiger said."

That is pretty high-tech stuff right there.

"The 191-year-old almanac's winter forecast is at odds with the federal government's outlook, which is based largely on statistical trends. For the coming winter, those trends point to above normal temperatures in the East and the Southwest, with drier than average weather along the southern tier of states and up the East Coast into Virginia."

We shall see, friends.

Besides, what is more important- that people in New England might have two winters or that the brides throughout the nation with outdoor wedding plans avoid the rain?

Sidenote: did the Almanac predict our crazy rainy August?

Vick asks for forgiveness...

I suppose we should all think about forgiving eachother when mistakes are made. Today, Michael Vick called to the public for forgiveness, and made it clear he has found Jesus.

"I'm upset with myself, and, you know, through this situation I found Jesus and asked him for forgiveness and turned my life over to God. And I think that's the right thing to do as of right now."

However, I think he should have called upon St. Francis of Assisi, my favorite Patron Saint of Animals. Then maybe we'd believe him.

Isn't it odd...

..that with all of the 9+ counties in a state of distaster in Ohio, disaster areas in Minnesota, flooding in Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Iowa, I hear less complaining about people's hardships there than I do about New Orleans, even 2 years after Katrina?

At Fox Lake, in northern Illinois, residents were busy stacking sandbags to protect their houses from the rising Fox River, said Ami McEwan, assistant administrator for Lake County.

"Most of them are sandbagging and keeping it at bay," she said.

Thankfully FEMA and state governments are coming to aid- but in the meantime, midwesterners underwater just keep on sandbagging.

The river topped its banks at noon and was flowing over a riverfront park, said Joy Hanson, who owns the Mason House Inn & Caboose Cottage, a bed and breakfast at Bentonsport. She said there wasn't time to start sandbagging.

"It's like a panic," she said. "There are a lot of people here from other towns helping out."

Their Christmas ornaments are gone, but they're not crying for the federal government to buy new ones, because after all, the weather isn't under the federal government's control. Hmmmmm....