Finished goal of running the distance of 2,080 miles from Lafayette, LA to Washington D.C and back!!!...plus 339.1 miles
0.0 miles run this week. Daily running average for the week is 0.00 miles per day. Total amount run in the past 800 days is 2,419.1 miles. Daily running average overall is 3.02 miles per day.
This is a training exercise held by Occupy Wall Street enthusiast and experienced agitator, Lisa Fithian. Up until viewing this video I had never heard of Lisa Fithian and after viewing this video I have no desire to learn any more about her. The only thing she made me realize is that I just lost two minutes and two seconds of my life that I will never get back, so proceed with caution.
I just couldn't say no to a second video. If you want more here is another six minutes and thirty-one seconds you will never get back.
Today ends week ninety-one of running against Obama. I ran 24.8 miles this week, averaging 3.54 miles per day.
This is a screenshot of me "reporting an attack" on myself to Barack Hussein Obama's "Truth Team". Just wanted him and his people to know I'm running against him. These sites are...eerie. That is the best term I can think of to describe the "Truth Team". "Attack Watch" is particularly odd and worth checking out. These sites exist for one ultimate purpose. For you to turn in your friends and neighbors if they say anything, regardless of how true or untrue it is, to Barack Obama and his campaign team. Then you get your name written down and who knows what else.
Here is what I had to say in the screenshot above to President Obama and his "Truth Team":
"I have been running against you, President Obama, for 637 days and I am not going to stop until Nov. 6, 2012. My "attack" is that you enable a sense of self-entitlement that weakens this nation and that you appear to have absolutely no regard for our national debt. You and your senate have not even executed a budget since your inauguration, not even when you had the house, as well. Your first two years you signed controversial health care legislation into law that is currently pending a judgment by SCOTUS and you signed a stimulus package that has reached nowhere near the results that were forecasted. Your first two years have amounted to a health care law that more than half this country does not want, which the Supreme Court could quite possibly overturn, and you followed your Keynesian model, which is a proven failure, with your stimulus package that has done nothing more than skyrocket the debt unborn Americans will owe as soon as they are out the womb. All the while, your social issues like gay marriage and the contraception mandate, coincidentally distract millions of people from what is really important, our economy and our debt."
No politics today. I stumbled across this video and it reminded me, as life tends to do every once in a while, what is really important. This is the gluey resin that stars and earth and human beings are all put together with. It is the God-given itch, the compulsion, the instinct, the driven desire to simply make the one you love as happy as possible, to make family members and friends feel as special as they deserve to feel, and to just appreciate this gift of life. We are all nothing more than billions of scratches on a tiny blue marble floating in space, but we often forget how remarkable that is and we tend to lose sight of how special it is that we are right here, right now.
I turned thirty-four yesterday, my first child will be born in the next few days, and I have no problem admitting the video above made me cry a little. Every once in a while, we get these moments of clarity. We see everything just as it is, and, being able to step back for a moment, to take inventory of existence and to process in a mere matter of moments, everything, for lack of a better term---it is humbling.
But then the moment is over. We are sucked right back into the constant distractions that distort a reality we would all prefer but rarely ever find a way to grasp in any other form than few and far between moments.
Funny how news moves like tides. I remember early on, when I started this blog, often I would grasp for something really worth posting about. I remember struggling just to find a story with real substance. And, if I did, it would require research, paraphrasing, consolidating, concision, and an amount of effort that many times I simply did not have enough hours in the day to make it worthwhile to mention. Nearly two years ago when I started this blog, it was still necessary to convince people that Barack Obama just might be a bad idea. But, now that we're nearing the two-minute warning, the game has been played, the score is tied, and come November one of two candidates are going to have the ball within ten yards of the end zone and it is going to come down to whether one team scores or the other's defense prevails. As we move closer to this monumental election, which will blaze a path in one of two very distinct and opposite directions, the tide is flowing in higher and higher with no sign of an ebb anytime soon. Breaking news is more abundant than ever and the tide was high today.
This campaign video is being reported as the best, most effective ad...ever. I usually change the channel when political ads come on so I'm not qualified to judge, but this guy did come up with something catchy and clever.
Twice in two days President Barack Obama has referred to his daughters during speeches as "his sons", even with a teleprompter. That's eerie.
Obama hosting Bushes at White House?
How does this president even poll with 50% of Americans supporting him?! The weakest link in the chain of our electoral process is ignorance. It is uninformed Americans stepping through the curtain to vote when they don't even know who the Speaker of the House is, when they don't even know how to contrast communism to free enterprise, when they don't appreciate everything this country has done to preserve the intentions of its founding fathers and they would rather whimsically compromise those roots with uneducated, unexplainable, frequently occurring lapses in judgment.
And here is a story worth checking out. There is a new book chronicling Barack Obama's high school days in Hawaii. The author, David Maraniss, claims that marijuana was a much larger picture of our president's teenage years than Obama suggests. I'm not passing judgment but it's just one more thing that this man, who we know so little about, had covered up by the media in 2008. Stories that should have been exposed but were irresponsibly not are abounding exponentially as the election grows closer. Being able to say "I told you so" is only a minor form of gratification compared to the disappointment that those individuals who back this guy simply don't care about his shady and flawed past even though it has more and more light cast upon it daily.
This guy rarely ever fails to deliver ultimate befuddlement and incoherent mumblings to answer simple questions about Barack Obama's actions. I admire Jay Carney. His job description, compressed down to a fine diamond of expectation, is to move his lips and open his mouth up and down while forming his tongue into certain shapes at different times to form meaningless words to explain and defend why Barack Obama makes the decisions he makes. It is a tough job and one that very few people I know would want. And what makes it so amusing to watch is how often he grasps for any single thread of explanation, but instead finds himself mumbling and stumbling himself into a completely unrelated response of jibberish.
On a completely unrelated note, here is a picture of our president dressed in American Revolutionary garb marching with what appears to be the Tea Party in 1997, who, through his actions since he was elected in 2008, empowered the Tea party with enough disgust and intolerability for the defiance of our Constitution to grab the Republican party by its tusks and claim the House of Representatives and nearly claim the Senate in 2010. Our president's agenda has not shifted since then and it is likely that another "shellacking", as Obama described the results of the 2010 midterm elections, will happen again.
In case you didn't hear about it, today in Kentucky the Democratic primary was held and the box with "uncommitted" next to it, under Barack Obama's name as the lone option, won 40% of the vote. That's a handful of delegates for a nonexistent entity. "Uncommitted" could have been a plank of wood, a sandwich bag, a packing peanut, a piece of chalk, or any other inanimate object you can think of and 40% of Kentucky voted for it over Barack Obama. Obama was defeated by a nonexistent candidate in 60 Kentucky counties.
This followed the West Virginia primary, in which Barack Obama lost 41% of the primary vote to an incarcerated man in Texas named Keith Judd. Judd is a serial presidential primary runner who has never before seen such success as he has with this run against Barack Obama.
In Oklahoma, Barack Obama lost 18% of the vote to a man named Randall Terry and 14% to a man named Jim Rogers. Never heard of these guys? 32% of Oklahoma thought they were a better option than Barack Obama, even though they obviously don't stand a chance at the national scale.
Arkansas. Widely unknown candidate, John Wolfe, has taken in 33% of the early returns in tonight's Democratic primary.
The desperate Obama campaign team is in "Plan B" mode after attacking Mitt Romney and his history with Bain Capital like a sledge hammer to a cotton ball over, and over, and over, and over again. The cotton ball just keeps fluffing back up. Significant members of Barack Obama's own party are even calling him out and demanding that he use his resources in a more effective way to benefit his campaign and not hurt it by attacking broadly accepted modes of free enterprise. However, if he had more effective resources to use, based on his record, I think he would be using them. Apparently he does not.
ran 3.6 miles
Today ends week ninety of running against Obama. I ran 24.7 miles this week, averaging 3.53 miles per day.
I remember more than a year ago seeing images like this in Greece and wondering if the same thing could happen in America. Well, here we are. These pictures are from the Chicago NATO summit. It's nothing new and OWS has been on the streets for a long time wreaking similar havoc. Their voice is as important as any others but it is unfortunate that it is so destructive and defeatist.
Who are these angry people in the streets going to vote for? They can't be happy with their options when you consider what they are asking for. They will probably not vote at all just to spite the system before them, which they abhor. No candidate is advocating a utopia or running on the pure chaos ticket, although Obama is close, which these individuals welcome, in the form of defeat, as opposed to every immense opportunity America has to offer.
It is still early, but these maps Karl Rove reports every couple weeks are as interesting as they are trivial to look at. I'm ready for the three debates we've been promised. They are still far out on the horizon of 2012, but they will be epic. There are so many unanswered questions that Barack Obama has never been asked, which can only be asked in the uninhibited, vulnerable arena of debate. These debates will hold a lot of weight and both of these guys will bring everything they have with them and leave it all on the field once its over.
Watching Barack Obama defend his record, which he does not brag about, and listening to him discuss contraception issues, gay marriage, and all of the other tertiary social topics that hold no gravity next to what is really important like the price of gas, the rate of unemployment, and the ridiculous amount of debt that has been accumulated under his watch, just to name a few.
In June we get the Supreme Court decision on ObamaCare. That is going to be a huge game-changer regardless of which way the vote goes. If the justices deem the whole law, or even just the mandate, unconstitutional then Conservatives will be castigated as cruel, insensitive brutes that took "your" health care away. If the law is judged to be constitutional then precedent will have been set for the federal government to interfere with and mandate anything in your life that you consider important to you and take pride in being able to make your own decisions about. Who is the winner here? Both sides of the aisle are anxiously preparing for either outcome and, regardless of which outcome it is, both sides have an equally strong approach to dealing with whatever fallout ensues. There is no right or wrong answer; only damage control and spin.
The position of POTUS has become such a comical charade...maybe it's always been this way, and I am only now achieving full-blown, teeth-grinding, headache-inducing awareness in my mid-thirties, but, really? REALLY? As individual Americans we have enemies coming from the federal government ahead of us, in the rear, and from both sides. I've come to terms with the realization that this election is yet another case of weighing lesser evils on a fixed scale of good. It is only a matter of which side can fix the scale better. Barack Obama is the wrong man, and four years later all of his issues that should have been reported in 2008 are just now surfacing. The media gently brushes the back side of its hand along our cheeks comforting us with the argument that the dye is cast and he is president, so move on, let's stick to the issues, coaxing our doubts with a reality they want to create, which is false.
I'm not ready to move "forward". If I am the butt of a joke, which is what the American people are to the federal government, and honoring our Constitution is the dispensable punch line, four years of Barack Obama as president is nowhere near enough time for me to forgive or forget.
The latest CEO of Yahoo was recently fired for simply lying about one single credential on his resume. In the real world that is a big deal. What world does our president and our politicians live in where they can get away with so much more?
I am going to vote for A.B.O, but only because it is a lesser evil. My real goal is to simply detach myself as much as possible from the federal government, thereby being a self-reliable, contributing citizen of the United States of America that weakens the power of government by acting upon and not relying upon.
I posted a video of Romney being made a fool of so it is only fair that I post a video of Obama receiving the same treatment. Coincidentally, the guy that wrote this song was a twenty-six-year-old middle school football coach who got fired for posting it on YouTube.
137.8 miles to go.
The picture above is no evidence or victory for birthers, but it is a real piece of our president's history and definitely worth checking out here. Just one more layer to this president, Barack Obama, who very few Americans seem too know much about.
I was glad to see Breitbart News release this and as we move closer to the election hopefully the videos Andrew Breitbart was raving about before his untimely death will be released, as well. Nothing has been shown yet to fulfill the conviction in that man's eyes, passion, or words in the days leading up to his death. Perhaps this is a start.
And here is Rev. Jeremiah Wright, just released today, discussing many controversial sides to Barack Obama that our unreliable media sources completely failed to report in 2008. Now, the big question is whether Romney should use this information as ammunition in his campaign or if he should shrug the blatant evidence that Barack Obama might possibly be the shadiest president in American history and simply stick to the issues we face. I'm torn on the matter myself, but I'll tell you this. If the news sources we watch, hear, and read had any genuine interest in you or me, or at least did their jobs with integrity, keeping an informed public as their priority, and had not relied on ratings, controversy, and tragedy so much, the man in the picture above would never have been elected president of the Unites States of America.
I cannot recall who said it, but someone claimed "Journalism died in 2008". I believe it. We live in a time where your gut, your instincts, and a highly calibrated b.s. radar to read between the lines of what is reported and what is not are vital to survive.
Here is Joe Biden once again doing no favors for the Democratic party or his boss.
One other quick note, back in March, President Barack Hussein Obama had served a budget to the House of Representatives and they had voted 414-0 against it. Today, the House served that same budget to the Senate and they rejected it by a margin of 99-0.
You construe for yourself what sort of statement that makes about a president of the United States of America. I say it's humiliating and quite possibly unprecedented. Not only in the world of budgets but in the full scope of a sitting president proposing something that not one single individual in Congress will support...that has to sting.
Senate Democrats argued the amendment they unanimously voted on did not actually match Obama's budget document, which was thousands of pages long. Republicans claimed they used all of Obama's numbers in the proposal and that there were no differing comparisons to dispute. Senator Jeff Sessions of Alabama dared any one Democrat on the floor to note any errors. No Democratic Senators stepped forward to challenge the claim.
This is priceless on so many different levels. So Will Smith is doing a "Men In Black" promotion in France. The beginning of the video is France's newly elected socialist leader, Francois Hollande, expressing his intentions to tax all French who earn $1 million or more at a rate of 75%. When the video cuts to Will Smith being interviewed he expresses how humble he is and how enthusiastic he is to give back to others through taxation in America. He throws out a rate, something like 30% or 35%, and continues to discuss his modest beginning and where he is now and how much he owes to his country. Then, the interviewer throws out the fact that under Hollande's leadership the tax rate for $1 million-plus earners is 75%. Will Smith's reaction speaks for itself. Look for it around 1:20. Poor guy obviously had no idea something so insane could even exist. Apparently, Will Smith does not follow much news in America are see the path we are heading down under Barack Obama.
