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Saturday, July 30, 2011
A Scary Idea About the Debt Crisis
I was playing a scary "what if" scenario in my mind tonight about the looming debt crisis thats quickly approaching on Aug 2. So Section 4 of the 14th Amendment of the Constitution states "The validity of the public debt of the United States... shall not be questioned." Some congressmen and political scholars read that to mean that if congress can not agree on a budget then the President has the legal authority to unilaterally raise the debt ceiling in order to protect the country. So what if Obama was a lunatic? I'm not talking about your typical "socialist" leftist president that a lot of people think he is, but like really bat shit crazy. A crazy President could theoretically interpret that to mean "shall not be questioned and shall be protected by any means necessary" right? Well if thats the case then could he round up all members of both houses of congress with federal troops and lock them in a room together until they settle the bills? Would that really be unconstitutional? If Obama believes he doesn't have the legal authority to raise the debt ceiling, does he have the power to lock them in a room together in order to protect the American people? And lets say he is more crazy and decides that section 4 gives him the authority to disband congress because their polarizing, political, stupid squabbling has endangered the country. If congress IS the threat, then does the President have the power to step in and hold elections for a new congress? What if the military backs him up on this crazy ass plan then what? War? Revolution? Crazier things have been done in other countries for someone to seize total power. All it takes is someone to get elected who really wants control and they'll find a way. Also, would the majority of the public, faced with complete economic failure and collapse of the United States economy, support this action? Germans supported The Nazi's when things got out of control. Russia and China went communist when things got out of hand there too.
This is just a crazy train of thought and I don't seriously believe any of this will actually happen. But its interesting to think about.
This is just a crazy train of thought and I don't seriously believe any of this will actually happen. But its interesting to think about.
Wednesday, June 22, 2011
Weird Al's New Album
I've been a huge fan of Weird Al Yankovic since junior high when his Bad Hair Day album came out. I remember watching the Amish Paradise music video and thinking it was one of the greatest videos ever! I even used one his original songs for a project in high school english. Even better than those albums was his last album Straight Out'a Lynwood with his hit White and Nerdy. So enter is new album which was released yesterday called Alpocolypse. While not as good as his previous work it's a solid album. The covers are the best songs and his originals are just good this time around. One surprise is that the album lacks a long marathon song like many of this previous CDs. Last time we were graced with Stuck at the Drive Through, a parody of Trapped in the Closet by R. Kelly. I was a little disappointed to see that but I guess the idea just didn't come to him this time.
Something about him that always stands out is the sheer amount of talent this man possesses. Not only does he cover the song and sing well, he keeps the same rhyming patterns. For example, a line from his new song TMZ is "You're on TMZ" as opposed to Taylor Swifts line, "You belong with me." This doesn't just happen for titles either. He does it for nearly each line of each song and rhymes his line with the real line for almost each verse. I'm not sure he sits there with the real lyrics compares but thats what I'd have to do. Anyway, check it out if you want. Its totally worth the $9.99 on iTunes.
Something about him that always stands out is the sheer amount of talent this man possesses. Not only does he cover the song and sing well, he keeps the same rhyming patterns. For example, a line from his new song TMZ is "You're on TMZ" as opposed to Taylor Swifts line, "You belong with me." This doesn't just happen for titles either. He does it for nearly each line of each song and rhymes his line with the real line for almost each verse. I'm not sure he sits there with the real lyrics compares but thats what I'd have to do. Anyway, check it out if you want. Its totally worth the $9.99 on iTunes.
Monday, June 20, 2011
Missing Time For Which I Don't Apologize
Today I consolidated three blogs spanning the years of 2001 to 2007. This was not an easy task since these entries spanned three different companies. Some of the work I had already done years ago apparently. I had moved some entries from LiveJournal to Blogger, then to WordPress, then given up on WordPress and continued on Blogger, but somehow I managed to leave out several LiveJournal entries from the start. After lots of research and importing errors I'm glad to say I got it.
But for all my hard work tonight I still feel a little let down. You see, if you go back to the first entry on this site from 2001, you'll see that it's not the first time I started up a journal. I remember deleting many old entries from my senior year of high school due to girl troubles. There is also an obvious gap between 2007 to last week. During this gap, I worked on two handwritten journals. One of them bridges the gap from 2007-2008. It's entitled The Baby Chronicles and its contents cover most of my wife's pregnancy with our first baby. I'm sorry to say that after she was born there is nothing between June 2008 to June of 2011. Almost exactly three years are missing. No entries anywhere, online or otherwise. Nothing from raising my first baby, the only girl in the family in 30 years, nothing from my engagement except for a video I took setting up the proposal, and nothing from the first eight months of marriage. So much has happened that I just can't explain everything and probably never will be able to. I wonder, if I had journaled at some point in those years, what would I have said? In the flux of emotions that someone goes through during a huge turning point in their lives it would have been great to read my day to day thoughts. I remember most of them now but in twenty years I won't.
A warning to those who might be tempted to go digging around in my past: buried in some of the entries you'll find hookups, breakups, rock bands, drinking and everything else you'd expect from an 18 to 24 year old boy. I don't apologize for anything that I said in here during those years. A journal is a place to send my thoughts and emotions so that I don't have to keep them in. I know there are a few people who might read these and be offended. Well, it was ment to be offensive at the time. Whatever happened back then happened and I moved on. Some of these aren't thought out very well and some are just a few sentences ment to curse someone out. I haven't even read all of these entires so I may be shocked to let a few secrets out of which maybe I don't remember. But so be it. I'm 28 years old now, a father of nearly two and I'm done hiding whatever it is that might still be hidden.
I guess one reason I'm posting this now is because if I'm not here tomorrow, maybe my family and friends will read this and know more about who I really was. Maybe the new people who read it will understand who I really am. Maybe you'll all just think I'm weird, selfish, immature, or vain, but you don't have to read this either. I'm going to close this off tonight with a promise. A promise to never let another year go by where I haven't somewhere, at sometime, written or typed a journal entry. Here's hoping.
But for all my hard work tonight I still feel a little let down. You see, if you go back to the first entry on this site from 2001, you'll see that it's not the first time I started up a journal. I remember deleting many old entries from my senior year of high school due to girl troubles. There is also an obvious gap between 2007 to last week. During this gap, I worked on two handwritten journals. One of them bridges the gap from 2007-2008. It's entitled The Baby Chronicles and its contents cover most of my wife's pregnancy with our first baby. I'm sorry to say that after she was born there is nothing between June 2008 to June of 2011. Almost exactly three years are missing. No entries anywhere, online or otherwise. Nothing from raising my first baby, the only girl in the family in 30 years, nothing from my engagement except for a video I took setting up the proposal, and nothing from the first eight months of marriage. So much has happened that I just can't explain everything and probably never will be able to. I wonder, if I had journaled at some point in those years, what would I have said? In the flux of emotions that someone goes through during a huge turning point in their lives it would have been great to read my day to day thoughts. I remember most of them now but in twenty years I won't.
A warning to those who might be tempted to go digging around in my past: buried in some of the entries you'll find hookups, breakups, rock bands, drinking and everything else you'd expect from an 18 to 24 year old boy. I don't apologize for anything that I said in here during those years. A journal is a place to send my thoughts and emotions so that I don't have to keep them in. I know there are a few people who might read these and be offended. Well, it was ment to be offensive at the time. Whatever happened back then happened and I moved on. Some of these aren't thought out very well and some are just a few sentences ment to curse someone out. I haven't even read all of these entires so I may be shocked to let a few secrets out of which maybe I don't remember. But so be it. I'm 28 years old now, a father of nearly two and I'm done hiding whatever it is that might still be hidden.
I guess one reason I'm posting this now is because if I'm not here tomorrow, maybe my family and friends will read this and know more about who I really was. Maybe the new people who read it will understand who I really am. Maybe you'll all just think I'm weird, selfish, immature, or vain, but you don't have to read this either. I'm going to close this off tonight with a promise. A promise to never let another year go by where I haven't somewhere, at sometime, written or typed a journal entry. Here's hoping.
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