Katrina That Bitch!!!

Hurricane Katrina did one hell of a job to New Orleans and many other gulf cities. Holy crap! It kind of boggles the mind viewing the amount of devastation that this storm has done. Roofs ripped off buildings, windows shattered, cars destroyed. It's just kind of crazy! But why oh why is every news piece showing my brothers and sisters looting EVERYTHING! I can understand if you need food and medicine but DVD players and TVs? Come on now! On the serious side there are a lot of people who need our help. So follow this link and help in any way you can. I will have to wait until Friday. That's when I get paid.

On another note I was on my way home this afternoon and saw gas in my neighborhood was selling for $3.25 a gallon for regular unleaded. Oh hell no! These bastards are just price gouging now and the stock market got jittery over the prospect of the downed refineries in New Orleans. After I saw those crazy prices I got some '70s flashbacks. Back to the days of odd and even gas days, back to the days of lines wrapped around the block and back to the days of people siphoning gas from someone elses gas tank! Many of you are too young to remember but I definitely remember! So I hopped on my two wheeled limousine (my bike) and peddled as fast as my little feet could carry me down to the auto parts store. You know where I'm going with this. Yep, I bought a key lock gas cap! With my car being parked most of the week I have no doubt that some enterprising youngster with a shiny car and no money for petrol would find my premium unleaded an easy target. Suck on air you punk! I'm on to you!

Girth Gone Wild!

Gang, I had my last surgery back in June and I have been out of the surgical shoe and off the cane for almost two months now. I'm able to get around just fine with my new feet. It's great, no pain! But one thing I did while I was recuperating was to suspend the membership to my health club. I figured why should I pay if I can't do anything. What if I dropped a weight on my toe? I couldn't risk it so I just gave it up for the greater good. If any of you have seen me lately the greater good turns out to be Krispy Kream doughnuts, numerous BBQs, copious amounts of beer and general slothenliness. I have reverted to a FAT ASS!! I have undone in three months what it took me a year and a half to do. It's a shameful state of affairs and a complete lack of will power. Besides that I'm stressing the buttons on my slacks. I'm not kidding!!

Now that my feet are feeling foot loose and fancy free I think it's time to hop back on the wagon and back on the treadmill. Or should I say elliptical? I just need to find my motivation again. I've been looking all over the house for it but I seem to have misplaced it! It's usually sitting right there in front of my face! I'm sure it will turn up soon. In the meantime maybe I can borrow someone else's motivation. Anyone want to loan me theirs for a while? I know this thing isn't easy to come by in America! As I've stated many times, we are truly a nation of fat asses. I'm already filling the role of too many statistics as it is and I just can't wear the monicker of fat ass for long. If I can't find my motivation maybe my new insurance plan covers lipo!

Pointing the Finger

Let's talk about the latest voice of the war protest Cindy Sheehan. Cindy was joined by some 100 supporters over the past week in her efforts to speak with the President. Her request is a simple one and one which I think is totally justified. All she is asking is for the president to give her a reason why we are in Iraq. She wants him to tell the truth. Cindy, I've been wanting him to do that for the past three years. What I find reprehensible is not his refusal to meet with Mrs. Sheehan. No, I'm more disturbed by the American public and their lack of concern regarding the miriad of justifications for our involvement in Iraq. I've been angry from the moment I heard we were going to Iraq. I have often felt I was the only one who heard the various reports which stated that there were no WMD's. Was I the only one who heard the reports which stated there was no connection between Sadaam Husein and the terrorirsts who crashed planes into the Pentagon and the World Trade Center? Why are we there again, Mr. President? Oh, now I remember. It is so the terrorists won't come over here. That's why we are fighting them over there. Right...

And now Cindy Sheehan is excercising her rights as an American. She is engaged in peaceful protest with a simple goal. But as with many non-violent protests there are those who feel she shouldn't have a voice. That she is fueling the fires of terrorism by protesting. Some have even called her actions treasonous. There was even one good old boy who thought it was a good idea to run over crosses which were planted to remember those who had fallen in Iraq. I feel like I'm living in an alternate universe where everything is backwards! How in God's name can an American citizen who is excercising her rights to free speech be wrong but a president who has lied at every turn about the reasons for this war not be challenged but is given card blanche with a foreign policy that has alienated us with some countries and insulted others? I have always said that my job as an American citizen is to question EVERYTHING especially our leaders. The minute we stop asking the question is the minute we end up with people like George Bush in office. The American people are to blame for any travesty that this administration wroughts. We had the information and we had the opportunity but we decided to put him back in office. The blame is squearely on us.