McCain's Body Language

They keep showing this clip of McCain introducing Palin for Vice-President.

He is standing there like he has just been pored in cement. He tells her there is no hurry and not to rush. While she is speaking, he has this pained expression...like, who is this woman and why is she speaking at my rally. His right hand is visibly shaking and he is picking at his fingernails. A forced half smile appears every once in a while and during her speech he is looking down, I think at the podium, to make sure she reads her speech correctly.

What he would like to do is introduce her, have her say "hello" and then whisper in her ear, "why don't you just sit in that chair and color and I'll take it from here".

No wonder he was nervous...the poor guy. He only met her in person once. And the only other time they spoke was in an AOL chat room, "Old Guy for Female Veep".

McCain the Maverick

Florida's Governor said that the reason McCain picked whatever her name is for the Vice-President is that he is such an independent thinker and a maverick.

Being a maverick and his own man is what John McCain takes great pride in. He is desperately trying to distance himself from the Bush and his policies.

So...if he's such a maverick and independent then why is he still a Republican. You either is or you ain't. If I'm going to vote for a Republican then I want to know what I'm getting. Somebody who will toe the Republican line. If I wanted someone who will go off on a wild tangent then I would vote for an Independent.

This maverick independent thing is just a red herring. Designed to delude us into believing that McCain is something he's not.

When it comes to his choice of what's her name, I don't find him to be a maverick at all. Just suffering the first stages of dementia.

Family Values

I thought Republicans were all about family values.

So how does that square up with McCain picking Gov. Sarah Palin as his running mate?

She has 5 kids. Five (5). The youngest was born 5 months ago and has Down Syndrome.

Now it seems to me that man or woman, father or mother would think it would be important to dedicate a substantial amount of their time to their youngest child....born 5 months ago.

Palin has just abdicated her role as a mother. At least for the next 6 months. You can't run the remaining 3 months of a national campaign and be anywhere near your family. She will have to spend every waking moment campaigning and studying, studying, studying....in the remote hope that she might be up to speed when she has to debate Joe Biden. And if McCain does win, scratch another 4 years off the calendar for family time. So the youngest will be almost 6 when he gets to meet his mommy.

And here is how McCain selected her:

On his 72nd birthday, McCain chose Palin, a woman younger than two of the Arizonan's seven children and a person who until recently was the mayor of small-town Wasilla, Alaska and has been governor less than two years. He settled on her six months after first meeting the governor and following only one phone call between them last Sunday and a single face-to-face meeting Thursday, according to a timeline provided by his campaign.

One phone call and a single face-to-face meeting. Does that make any sense?

Family values? He should have said during the phone call, ummmm, you have how many kids? 5? And one was born with special needs 5 months ago? Ummm, I think we have a bad connection...call ya back.

Kay Bailey Hutchison, senior Senator from Texas, was interviewed on CNN just after the announcement. She looked horrified. They asked her what she thought of the choice. She said she had no idea because no one in Washington had ever heard of Palin. Oooops. I don't blame her for being angry. I'm supposed to believe that Palin is the best candidate in our country? I don't think so.

So much for family values.

McCain Picks Karen Walker!

John McCain today announced that Karen Walker, from TV's Will and Grace, is his pick for Vice-Presidential running mate.

Jack, of course, will be Karen's assistant. If McCain wins, Will will become the Attorney General, Grace will be the White House decorator and Rosario will become Chief Housekeeper.

Might as well be Karen. Governor Sarah Palin has zero experience. Two years as Alaska's Governor doesn't count for squat. Oh my goodness. I sure hope that McCain, if he wins, doesn't croak. If he does we are totally screwed.

But at least this is much more fun than it was 24 hours ago and I don't have to put anymore paint on my walls and watch it dry.

Drying Paint and the Democrat Convention

I have painted a small area of my office wall with fresh paint.

This is because watching paint dry is more interesting than watching this wretched convention.

Where's the tear gas? The demonstrators? This is how I imagine a political convention would be in Communist China. Booooring.

In the good old days, there was plenty of excitement. Most of the delegates were slightly drunk. Weren't they? Tip O'Neil....Teddy Kennedy. I'm sure they were half in the bag. You had Dan Rather running around the convention floor with a huge headset on with a big wire antenna coming out of it. You could kind of hear what he was saying with the background noise and the poor signal.

Now it's soooo polished. And timed. And predictable. And boring.

It's literally like watching paint dry.

Throw in some Wolf Blitzer and Soledad O'Brien and you'd have the Guitmo detainees confessing to anything to have them turn the convention off. Please my friend. I will tell you what you want but you must turn that TV off. I can't take it anymore.

Man Love

Since when did it become standard practice for American male political candidates to constantly hug each other?

John McCain looks like he vomits in his mouth just a little bit every time he hugs a guy. Just a little bit of vomitous material.

Obama gave Biden a big hug when Biden's speech was over last night. Obama looked like he was going to kiss Biden on the lips until he realized who it was....but I think Obama gave Biden a little butt slap. Couldn't be sure...bad camera angle.

I hug my Dad.

When I meet my co-pilot for the first time we shake hands...no hugging. At least not until the second day of the trip.

So where did all the hugging come from?

Ughhhhhhhh

That was a juvenile little game that Barrack was playing the last few days. "I've got a secret". I understand that he was trying to create buzz by letting us know that he knew a secret and we didn't...but, if we would just give him our email address.....he would send us the secret as soon as it wasn't a secret anymore.

This race is so excruciatingly boring that either candidate selecting their VP nominee is "breaking news". That news has been breaking now for 48 hours. With no news. Now there are helicopters following Biden as he exits his house and heads to Springfield. He's all of a sudden a superstar.

And what a stupid chioce.

I know all of the reasons the pundits give.

But give me a break, Biden said in a Democrat debate that Obama wasn't ready to be President. He doesn't have the experience. OK. That's cool. I respect that. You told the truth about what you believe.

But now Obama is going to pick someone who said that he shouldn't be the President because he is clueless and Biden is going to agree to be the VP for someone that he believes is clueless?

What?

What planet am I living on?

The Lightning Bolt

Usain Bolt is amazing. He runs so fast and so effortlessly that he just looks back at his competition and says, hey guys, I'm up here. Doesn't anybody want to run with me?

Now the Olympic Chairman is upset with Bolt. Here's what the Chairman said:

BEIJING (AP)—IOC president Jacques Rogge criticized Jamaican sprinter Usain Bolt on Thursday for showing a lack of respect to other competitors after his record-breaking gold medal performances in the 100 and 200 meters.

“That’s not the way we perceive being a champion,” Rogge said.

The International Olympic Committee chief hailed Bolt’s stunning achievements in the two sprints, comparing him to American great Jesse Owens, but said Bolt should have cut out the look-at-me flaunting and acknowledged the other athletes.

Hey Amigo. Mr. Chairman. Get a grip. This guy is so much better than anyone else. He blew them away. And Bolt tried to acknowledge the other athletes. They were just so far back it made it very difficult. Bolt should tell the Chairman, in a very nice way, "Why don't you just bite me."

I was in the USAF with Alonzo Babers.

Alonzo C. Babers (born October 31, 1961) is a former American athlete, winner of two gold medals at the 1984 Summer Olympics, in the 400 m and the 4x400 m relay).

Every year for our fitness test we had to run 1 1/2 miles for time. I had to do it in under 12 minutes. 6 laps total. I am not a runner. I would be done with two laps, maybe 3 and Alonzo would be finished. No sweating, no heavy breathing from gold medal winner Alonzo. I, on the other hand, would be gasping for breath and coughing up blood. Oxygen please. So I know what it's like for the other runners to be blown away by someone that is so much infinitely better than you are.....just like Mr. Bolt.

Wow is he amazing.

The Police and Me

This afternoon I'm sitting at home at my desk and I hear a loud police radio. Just as I am about to get up the door bell rings. There at my door is the police. And outside, in front of my house, is a police car with the radio blaring over the speaker. So let's see. Why are they here to arrest me? Two weeks ago, I only very slightly grazed the old lady crossing the street with the walker. It was just a tap. Income taxes? Paid. Have I flipped off any police officers lately? No. So what could it be?

It was a jury summons.

Don't those come in the mail?

Evidently not.

So now I have to go be a juror. Not any kind of juror mind you. But a "grand" juror. Which I would assume includes a free daily buffet and at the least a valet car service. I will be asking to be picked up each day by the police and brought to the court house. Traffic is horrible that time of day and I don't think I'll be able to get there on time without at least an escort. I mean this isn't the regular jury. It's Grand.

Now on the instruction sheet they gave me (the one that I got when they scared the crap out of me and subtly informed my neighbors that I was a convicted felon, or soon to be one), makes no mention of the dress code or what I am to wear. I would imagine that a powdered wig is standard. Do they give me one of those or do I have to buy or rent one? I found a picture of the look I will be going for on day one. Not too flashy but to let them know that I am Grand and I take this very seriously. Of course I'll need an assistant to take notes for me while the proceedings take place. And I'll need a hair and makeup girl for the lunch break to fix my wig et al.

So there you have it.

I am now a very important person. Much more important than I was two days ago. So important in fact that this is going to screw up my annual October vacation where we go out west to get away from the heat and human beings.

Great.

I need some babies and Richard Simmons

Where can I get some kids quick?

If McCain wins, he said he's going to give me a $7,000 tax credit for every child I have. It would be crowded but 15 kids would be a good start. The government would owe me lots of money. Can you order these kids online or is there and 800 number to call?

In the Rick Warren church talk or whatever that was....McCain also said that he would not legislate public energy conservation. In other words, no laws to raise the minimum mile per gallon on cars or a surcharge on gas guzzlers. No laws or rules to protect our country and get us off of oil. He said that's not necessary. Americans will do that on our own. See? With gas prices at $4 per gallon, Americans have already cut back. Yes but prices are now going down and if they continue we'll start driving as we were before. And I think people will get used to high gas prices and the horror of $4 gasoline will in time wear off. So leaving something as important as energy conservation and getting us off of oil to the American public isn't a good idea. We're hooked and we need some help. Please. Somebody help us. I can't stop eating this ice cream!

Hey, that's an idea. What if Richard Simmons was our energy czar? He could bring out his Deal-a-Meal plan and we could do it for energy. We could have daily Richard Simmons broadcasts to get us pumped up about conservation. A CD called Conserving to the Oldies. I'm going to send him an email right now.

Sandals

It's summer time. I get it.

But lots of people have sandals or flip-flops on these days and they're wearing them in normal places. The only place I will even think about wearing flip-flops is the beach or pool. Wearing sandals on the plane, the mall, walking around in public. Nooooo. Someone is going to step on my toes or my toes are going to get smashed by someone dropping something very heavy on them. Ouch.

But that's OK. I'm very unfashionable. I still have my sunglasses that are small and not the cool huge sunglasses. I have my white athletic socks. I have my white tennis shoes. My teeth aren't whitened. And the thing that's really bugging me now is that all of my favorite T-shirts are falling apart. The holes are getting really large. These are my favorites. I've been friends with them for a long time. I can't just discard them like so much trash. And the T-shirts in stores now are real crap. Way too thin. What to do? What to do?

That's Odd

Michael Phelps eats 12,000 calories per day.

Here is a typical day's food intake for Phelps.

Breakfast: 3 fried egg sandwiches, 2 cups coffee, 5-egg omlette, bowl of grits, 3 pieces of french toast, 3 chocolate chip pancakes

Lunch: 1 pound pasta, 2 ham and cheese sandwiches, energy drink (1,000 calorie)

Dinner: 1 pound pasta, 1 large pizza, energy drink (1,000 calorie)

What is bizarre is this.....that is exactly what I eat everyday.

Why don't I look like Michael? What am I doing wrong? Maybe I need another energy drink.

16 years old? Of course, Here's my passport

You have to be at least 16 years of age during the year the Olympics are held to complete as a female gymnast. The Chinese would like for us to believe that all of their girls are at least 16. I don't think so and nobody else does either. They might be 12. Maybe 13, but there is no way they are 16. The Chinese say that all we have to do is examine their passports that were issued by Mr. Ding Dong. Mr. Dong is the head of the Ministry of Bogus Passports in China. And if Mr. Dong says they're 16 then by George they are...unless you would like to visit a labor camp for about 30 years.

This year's Olympics are great. Someone turned Bob Costas on and he's not as dead as he was for the last winter Olympics. The Today Show group makes no sense each morning from China. I think they must be totally jet lagged. They'll perk up when it's time for them to leave then be dead for another two weeks when they get to NY.

And what's up with beach volleyball. That has to be the most boring thing to watch. I like the guys that hang from those rings and do their thing. I couldn't even jump up to get on the rings much less hang on one for 5 seconds. Amazing. And the swimming is very exciting. They should just all stipulate that Phelps is going to win, give him all of the Gold Medals and don't let him really swim with the others because it's so embarrassing to come in 30 minutes after he does. He's a machine.

Why is John Edwards Talking?

John Edwards is a man with no integrity. None.

I don't care if he had an affair. It's none of my business. But don't look into the camera and tell me and the American people that you didn't do it. Now you're an adulterer and a liar. Now you've broken the vows with your wife and the Americans.

So you little slime ball. There is nothing to say. Don't need to say you're sorry or what your reason was for doing it. Or what your reason was for not telling the truth. I don't care. Couldn't care less. You're done. Finished. Please go under whatever rock you were hiding under while you were sneaking around while having your affair and take care of your wife who now has cancer again. If she'll even be in the same room with you.

If you are going to run for high public office, can you please just have a little bit of integrity? Is that too much to ask?

The Olympics

The opening ceremonies were incredible. Amazing.

Is every opening ceremony a commercial for that country? It probably is I just don't remember.

Did it really cost $100 million? You have to sell alot of lead based paint toys to pay for that.

Did you see when the President, our President, the Bush, was seated? They brought him down the steps right next to the guy selling cotton candy and cold Bud. Why weren't the heads of state in a box? They were in regular seats. Maybe it was so they could buy one of those glow in the dark things if they wanted to.

The guys who were banging those drums were told to smile so that they didn't look so menacing. I think when they smiled they looked slightly deranged.

When they played the national anthem of China they all knew the words and belted it out loud. Do we do that? Some of us do but not most of us. I wonder if the Chinese do that regularly or if it was an Olympics thing.

It was cool how they had the Chinese and Olympic flag blowing in this stiff wind that wasn't coming from anywhere. Where was the wind coming from?

The Thai Chi guys were amazing. How did they stay in those perfect circles? And the guys with the boxes. The whole thing was just amazing. Of course a good motivator is that if you screw this up, we'll take you out back and shoot you in the head. Works every time.

So the whole opening ceremony thing was way better than I ever thought it would be. For $100 million dollars it should be. Of course it was all lies. No mention of the political prisoners being tortured at that very moment. Or the mind blowing choking pollution that they had to shut almost everything down to get rid of and it's still there. And the Bush is there eating his funnel cake just happy as a clam. Yes he went to the President or Premier of China or whatever he is and told him that we weren't happy about them pulling the fingernails off of people or having slave labor. Oh now stop it Duck Dong. Don't go into us keeping people at Gitmo without trials. Them there people is terrorists and you knows it. He he he he. I didn't make you mad did I Dong? You'll still keep selling us your cheap Chinese crap and buy billions of dollars of our debt? Won't ya Dong? Whewww. Thanks. Hey, you gonna eat that egg roll?

You know what I found the most strange about the opening ceremonies? The whole thing was to highlight the progress of China throughout the centuries and not a mention of it's two most important contributions.

Orange Chicken and Broccoli Beef.

A funny work week

It started with a deadhead which is always fun.

Towards the end of boarding, I am coming back from the aft restroom and a middle aged man tries to hand me his large backpack. I say what do you want me to do with that? (I am in my Captain uniform). He says there is no room near his seat and I am to find a place to put his bag. I tell him that behind me are a lot of empty bins and that he should be able to find a place for it. He says aren't you here to help everyone? I say no and sit down. Very strange man. I'm usually the first person to help a passenger but for some reason he just hit the wrong note with me.

Now I'm in the van to the hotel. We stay downtown and use a limo service. The lady who picks us up is nice and we start a converstation. I ask her what all of these people are doing. There had to be a convention in town. Oh yes she says it's an insurance convention. So I briefly say I'm having some insurance problems and I ask her if she's ever been in a car crash. Oh my heavens yes. Lots of them and all my fault. I ask her if she had trouble with the insurance companies. Oh no she says, I didn't have no insurance. Well, I guess that's a good reason to not have any trouble with the insurance industry. Glad she's driving us around. What happens when you don't have any insurance? Oh nothing really she says, they just suspend your license for 6 months. Good to know. I will immediately cancel all of my car insurance.

So then she asks me if I come to this city often and I tell her sometimes but usually just fly in and out. So I ask her if she's travelled much. No she says, the airport is the farthest she's ever been from her house. And she's dead serious. Oh, I say. What is there to say?

So to the hotel we go. When we get there, it's not a good scene. There are lots of people waiting to check in. And I mean a big line. Guess what there is a bigger line for? The elevator. This is a high rise and there is only one elevator working. The others are broken. Goodie. So I go up in the service elevator and walk down the steps in search of food. The stairs end at floor 2 I think and there are hand written exit signs taped to the walls. Then you are directed down a narrow hallway with most of the lights burned out and no emergency exit lights. The fire department and I will be having a talk next week.

Fun fun for the whole family.

8-8-8

Welcome to 8-8-08. You and the planet are still alive.

Weren't we supposed to all blow up on 6-6-06? What about 7-7-07? Nothing happened then either. We love numbers. Some weird kind of numerology, astrology superstition stuff. People love to make predictions about the end of the world. Preachers do it, psychics do it. Regular people don't because they are too busy trying to make money to buy gasoline. But so far, as of 09:26:25 EDST the world is still spinning. No breaking news. Yet.

The Jonas Brothers

OMG! For Sure, Ya Know.

I'm watching Good Morning America right now and the Jonas Brothers are going to perform in 17 minutes. Run run run to your Tivo and record this performance.

I can't run from these Jonas Brothers. They are everywhere and I don't want to be around them. Where did they come from? There are nineteen bazillion kids in the world so who picked the 3 that can't sing? And the older one reminds me of Andy Kauffman. You have to be really old to know who that is. When they lip sync they sound great. Well not great, but what a boy band should sound like. Very sweet and syrupy. But when they sing live......ooooooh, not good. Not good at all.

They are going to perform in Bryant Park In NYC and there are 4 sisters who have been in line since Tuesday morning. Hello? That was 3 days ago. Wow. Now that's crazy. But after they've been up for 3 days, I'm sure the bros will sound much better. I had a full night's sleep.

Hurry! Only 13 minutes left.

Deposition

I had my deposition from the car crash I had over 2 years ago. I've never had a deposition and it was very interesting.

The insurance company for the other guy is unbelievably sleezy so they won't pay a dime for anything so I get to waste my time with depositions and probably a court trial. Fun for the whole family.

The lawyer for the other side was an arrogant, condescending creature who used various techniques to try to trap me in a lie. Techniques that I thought were not designed in any way to get the truth but to trick me into saying something that wasn't true to show that I was a liar later on.

The first thing he did was to scold me and give me directions about don't interrupt me, don't nod your head etc. I hadn't said one word yet and I do know how to have a conversation but thanks anyway for those pointers. The next thing we did was go into detail about where I've lived the past 30 years, etc. Every doctor visit I've ever had, other accidents....blah blah blah.

Then he got into the trickery phase. He would make a statement about a fact that he already knew. It was in documents I had already provided. But he would change one part of the fact just slightly and state it as a fact. For instance, if I wrote that the accident happened at 2pm. He would say, now I see here that the accident happened at 7pm, isn't that right? No you little rat, it was at 2pm like I told you earlier. Or he would make a fact out of thin air and try to get you to say that it was true when there was no basis for me knowing it. And he would say it with such conviction and authority that it did seem true. Until you saw the little horns pop up on his head, you come back into reality and realize that your being tricked again.

Here is an answer that I gave that made him very agitated. He asked me what did I do when I got home from the accident. What? Hello? I don't even remember what I did 5 minutes ago much less 2 years ago. I told him I didn't have a clue what I did because I don't keep a minute by minute log of my every activity. I told him I probably sat down on the couch but I really have no idea.

He stopped his questions at one point and told me that the reason he was asking me all of the questions was to make sure that at a later date my story didn't change, ie I'm lying. I told him if there's one thing he doesn't need to worry about, it's me lying. What I'm telling him is the truth. Period. No need to worry the little red horns on his head.

So after about 1 1/2 hours of this incessant grilling, he abruptly stopped, acted like we were best buddies and asked me some inane questions about the airline and off we went.

I went home and immediately began keeping a detailed minute by minute log of my every movement. Not.

The Dreaded DV Pallet Scandal

DV stand for distinguished visitor. A pallet is pallet. A square thing that you put cargo on and then put on a cargo airplane...like a USAF C-17. When I was on active duty they were called DV pallets. Now they're called Senior Leaders In-Transit Pallets and Capsules..


Well these things have Congress all bent out of shape. And rightly so.

The Senior Leadership In-Transit Pallets are 4 first class leather seats and a desk. Cost of these four seats? $290,000.

The Senior Leadership In-Transit Capsule is basically a modular room with at least two beds, couch, at least two leather chairs, a conference table, a 37 inch flat screen TV, full length mirror, weapons storage and secure communications. The first one of these things they'll make will cost $2.7 million and the next two $1.9 million each. For a whopping total of $7.6 million dollars.

These are needed for General Officers to fly around in so their bottoms don't get sore on the red webbed seats that the troops sit in when they are being transported to a war zone so that somebody can shoot at them or blow them up and then they can come back either maimed or in the front of the C-17 cargo hold in a pretty silver box.

Senator McCaskill of Missouri held a hearing on this nonsense and really got bent out of shape as did Senator John Warner of Virginia when they found out that they USAF wanted another $113,000 to upgrade the wood and the leather on the chairs.

What planet do we live on that the perfumed princes, aka USAF General Officers, are wasting taxpayer money on this? When the troops can't get what they need in the field. Like armoured vehicles that can withstand getting blown up by the bad guys. Or wounded troops getting the proper care back home.

If I were a General Officer and I saw that thing on my plane, I would tell them they have about 5 minutes to get that &^%* thing off of my airplane. I'll sit with the troops thank you very much. But of course I never would be a General Officer because to get to that rank you certainly don't think like that.

Regis Confuses Me

Objective:

Take a great game show....Password

And totally dork it up

Recipe:

A. Change the game to where it's almost unrecognizable

B: Add 135 year old Regis Philbin as the host

Boy is he horrible and annoying. He reads everything (and not well) and has no spontaneity. None. And most of his speaking parts are dubbed in after the show has been taped. Watch it and you'll see. You see Regis talking, his lips are moving, everything sounds normal and then they cut away to a shot of someone else and Regis' voice changes (because he's in an audio booth about a month later) and says, Ricky has 5 points and Mary Anne needs 6 to win. That's because Regis has so totally screwed up the taping that it doesn't make any sense. And every time they have him read the rules it takes 10 minutes. In the old Password you didn't have to read the rules. A monkey could figure it out. Now it's so complicated and tedious that it takes a lawyer to figure out what's going on.

The producers have decided that all game shows must look like Millionaire. Flashy this, same music, high energy (yawn while Regis reads the rules) and of course Regis. This show and Regis sucks. I want the original Password back.

And then there is Betty White. I love her. They brought her back at 86 to play the game. And she was great. She had maybe 50 times more energy than Regis. And she knew where she was, made sense and was entertaining. They only had to stop taping once to give her oxygen.

How does Regis keep getting these shows? And doesn't he have something else better to do? Like golf or get a new face lift or something?

Nuclear Weapons

Nuclear Weapons aren't having a good year. Nuclear Weapons security that is and specifically the USAF.

Minot AFB in North Dakota earlier this year sent nuclear weapons on a B-52 to Barksdale AFB, Louisiana without anyone knowing that they were on the plane and going to Louisiana. Oooops. So Minot was immediately decertified as a nuke base, the Wing Commander was fired and recently the USAF Chief of Staff and the USAF Secretary were fired.....some of it probably due to the nuke mess.

So Minot gets new leadership and is going to kick some serious butt. It's his job to get them back in shape so they can pass their inspection and be nuke guys again. Inspection time comes. And they...fail. One reason was (among many other things) that a security forces airman that was guarding the nukes was playing games on his cell phone while on duty.

Well now Minot has done it again. In addition to airplane based nukes they have really big nukes on missiles out there. ICBMs. Inter-continental ballistic missiles. If one of these are coming your way...it's not going to end well for you. They are controlled by officers that work a 24 shift underground in a command center next to their missiles. They have the secret codes that make the missiles work in a secret box that they carry around. After their 24 hour shift they go upstairs to a house that is built above the missiles and wait for permission to go back to the base. And they have the box. The secret box. With the secret codes. And while up in the house waiting to be released....they all fell asleep. With the box...with the secret codes. Bad. They reported their grievous error to the higher ups and it's hit the fan again.

What's wrong with Minot? What's wrong with the USAF? I'm glad I'm not the new guy who's in charge of that mess.

How Sad...We need a leader

This presidential election should be very exciting and full of hope.

I'm not very excited and I'm sure not full of hope.

It was much more interesting when the primaries were going on. Candidates spoke their mind more and were less scripted. Now we're stuck with a white war hero from 40 years ago who's run for President 75 times and a 1/2 black-1/2 white Senator who thinks he's 100% black, who I don't think really likes white people. Great.

Barrack has almost no experience in running anything much less a country. And McCain has lot's of experience and is part of the bunch that hasn't done much of anything and here we are in this mess.

McCain was on TV yesterday and guess what he has? A plan. That's right...the McCain plan. Give me a break. You've been in the Senate before rocks were made....how come this is the first time I've heard about a plan from you. T. Boone Pickens, whoever the heck that is, also has a plan and about 5 gazillion dollars. Everybody has a plan. McCain criticized the Bush for huge deficits and really screwing up the country. That 's the first time I've heard that John. Where were you while he was doing it? And McCain's plan is to drill offshore and lower taxes? That's it? You got to be kidding me. We need a leader. Hello. Anyone want to be a leader today? No. McCain in addition to telling us he has a plan is telling us that Obama is like Brittany and Paris. What? Did he forget to take his medication that day? I thought we weren't going negative this time. Sure.

And Obama. I used to like him. But I think he's all hot air, doesn't have a clue on what to do. Does he have a plan? I'm sure he does but I have no idea what it is. When he talks, I just go to sleep. We need change, blah blah blah.

We need a leader. Leadership. Not a manager or a politician. A leader. Where's Patton when you need him?