Are You Ready For Some Pressure
Few things are more iconic than Hank Williams, Jr singing “Are you ready for some football” before every Monday Night Football game. Long after you’ve forgotten the score the jingle still resonates in your memory. ESPN took the bold step of suspending their use of the famous tune because of some comments by Williams, Jr.made about President Obama. It seems that Hank in not too fond of the policies of Obama and had the temerity to voice his disdain on Fox News. That’s probably a double whammy; saying something negative about Obama and doing it on Fox News. I can understand ESPN’s desire to avoid getting political as a sports channel, but I suspect that the issue may go a little deeper. Perhaps they don’t want to come under pressure from one of Obama’s federal agencies…
Finally there is news that President Obama’s “stimulus” has had some positive effects on our economy. The usually Obama-cheer-leading Associated Press has produced a very deep “news” article boasting the fact that gasoline prices are finally coming down and some predict prices as low as $3.25 per gallon within a month. First I’ll believe and welcome that when I see it. Second there is a rather sinister reason for the recent price drop.
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I spent part of my career working as the environmental manager for a large waste firm. I was part of a new management team that was coming into an older landfill facility that had a less than stellar reputation. When I considered leaving and taking the position I asked a colleague about the company and facility since he worked with them a lot his advice was that “they could sure use the help.” I took the challenge and spent nearly eight years with the company. Most times I likened my days to what a surfer must feel like with a big wave. I always had my day planned, but once I got on that wave it took me places that I had not planned.
“When we take a position that isn’t willing to embrace evolution, when we take a position that basically runs counter to what 98 of 100 climate scientists have said, what the National Academy of Science has said about what is causing climate change and man’s contribution to it, I think we find ourselves on the wrong side of science, and, therefore, in a losing position,”
I’d like to suggest that the Obama Administration be renamed the OBA Administration or the Obama Back-Assward Administration. When most of us have a problem we try to find and fix using logic. For instance, my car was having some trouble starting so I had the battery and alternator checked. If I were to act like the Obama Back-Assward Administration, I would probably have my key checked. It would be funny except that these folks are “running” the country or should I say “ruining” the country…
I was shampooing my hair this morning and forgot how to do it so as luck would have it my bottle had directions. The only problem is that I got stuck in a loop of lather, rinse, repeat…lather, rinse, repeat…lather, rinse, repeat…. (you get the picture). There is nothing on the directions about when to stop. So I start thinking that since this seems to be happening with Obama’s economic policy maybe he lost the last page of his economic book and just doesn’t know where to stop. I eventually ran out of shampoo and had to stop, but he has no “bottle” to empty. When he runs out of our money, he just prints/borrows more. Like my suds our money seems to be going down the drain.
I’ve had my share of nicknames in the past. Some nice; some not so nice or flattering. Every time I got a nickname it was usually “given” by a friend or close acquaintance. I don’t think even the less likable ones were really meant to harm me or truly disparage me. In the last two plus years I have been called all sorts of names because I believe that I am Taxed Enough Already. I don’t belong to any particular TEA Party though I have gone to a few rallies. I hope that my blog affirms my belief in the principles of the Constitution, the free market, and good old capitalism.
It’s an often used phrase to indicate your sincerity, word, honor about something when you swear on your mother’s grave…assuming she is dead of course. It really is a meaningless statement for those who think nothing of lieing to achieve their goals. Why would a sleazebag care about his mother when he has an agenda to push or a point to make. Perhaps they consider it “poetic license” to use a loved one in such a manner. I believe it is despicable.