Fiddlesticks.

Seriously. SERIOUSLY!!!

Carlos Quentin breaks his wrist in a fit of frustration, and everything goes downhill for the White Sox.

I told myself I wasn't going to mention the White Sox --AT ALL-- until they won, but this is maddening.

After the score reached 5 to 2 in favor of the Rays, I switched the game off. I had guests, but they understood.

I live in Cardinal country, but I can't mention the White Sox for fear of being reminded that the Cardinals have 9 more championships.

The White Sox have MASSIVE amounts of power, but with Quentin, we seem to be lost.

Jesus, God, and The Universe, I DO believe in miracles. GO WHITE SOX!!!

Let's All Get Married. It Helps the Economy!!

I'm sure paying that paying our delinquent could help the economy, too. Truthfully, I'm not sure if marriage helps, but I've heard good things.

I am getting married, and this post was created specifically to keep and organize the male aspects of the wedding.

September of 2009 had better watch out, because the Breitbarth's are coming.
The Ring of Choice

My fiance is totally into the planning of the wedding, although the date is a year away. This is me saying my piece, and getting involved.

http://www.justmensrings.com/details.asp?ProductCode=JMRD01

My fiance has always wanted her husband to wear diamonds in his wedding band, and I have always wanted a practical ring. The exploitation of masculine elegance in this stainless steel wedding band is perfect.


The Groom's Financial Responsibilities

http://www.themanregistry.com/ArticleDetails.aspx?AID=19

I'm sure that the financial responsibilities of this wedding will be shared between Kayla and I. However, there are official responsibilities for me, the groom. I can promise you that I never knew I was paying for the corsages.

The Groomsmen Gift

http://www.themanregistry.com/ProductDetails.aspx?PID=631

Who wouldn't like a personalize mug? Seriously? A mug with your name on it!

I can put 3 initials, or up to 10 characters. I think I'm going to go with names, but I have yet to decide if I'm going with first or last names.


Thank god for themanregistry.com. Without it, I would be bored, frustrated, and have no idea what to do.

Just the Facts, Joe. The VP Debate

For those of you that didn't catch the awesomeness of the 2008 Vice Presidential Candidate debate, here are a few of the slurred facts that were checked.


http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27001026/

TELL THE MAN THAT IS PRONE TO MISUNDERSATND!!

What is happening?

Honestly. I have little knowledge of economics.

I have money in my pockets. I buy food.

I lose my job. I don't pay my bills.

That is what I know. What I know right now is that a lot of people cannot pay their bills. Not just "regular" people, not just "rich" people, not just "poor" people. People are losing things they worked their whole lives for.

When the economy fails, things get mixed up. Wars have saved us in the past. I don't think it's going to work this time.

Truthfully, my tangible connection to the market is unknown to me. I feel like I've helped worsen the situation, due to my lack of financial responsibility. Sadly, I have known a few people that lost their houses.

To be curt, I don't want that to happen anymore. That statement pretty much embodies my knowledge and goals for the economy.

As for the bailout, people ask questions like "shouldn't failure be the price of failure?"

My question is:

Is this bailout going to prevent any sort of redistribution of wealth?


After the Great Depression, prohibition ended and the United States entered World War II and the Middle Class was born. Sadly, we had to suffer through the Great Depression first. If this is a depression (recession), how far along do you thing we are? At least halfway, right?

Just explain to me how these things are supposed to work. I'm about to breakdown and use wikipedia...Which is not a source any man should trust.

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I have yet to resort to wikipedia. However, I haven't ventured to the New York Post and Wall Street Journal. I'm stuck on MSNBC. Which, I might add, is riddled with grammatical errors. (The first few article I read were alright, but the last one was informative, but read like a rough draft.)

What I predict is that without these bailouts, the wealth of the world will be redistributed. I'm not talking just America. The world.

If there are first world countries and third world countries, soon we will be talking about second world countries. There will a "middle class" in our new, totally globalized, earth.

This may scare most Americans. We aren't actually on the top of the world anymore, but most people want to believe we should be there and stay there.

This will be a great purging. Think of this as the whole western world's Great Depression.

When it's all over, my only hope is to be living better.

Juneau why they love Sarah Palin in Alaska?

Do you know why they love Sarah Palin in Alaska?

Because it's easy to hide your mistakes in the snow.



Ask Bart Simpson. I bet the spring thaw comes late in Wasilla.


Perhaps Anne Kilkenny knows where the skeletons are buried. In a city with a population of less than 6,000, it should be easy to hide the truth, and hard to mess up.

A young cousin of mine is doing his best to convert me to McPalinism. He's sent me every group invite facebook has to offer. That is modern politics. That is the history of politics. That is the future of politics.

Accept me invite. Listen to my parents. They told me who was right.

I am McPalin

Today is Day 2 of Breitbarth Detox. This is important.

Today is the day the NFL kicks off.

Go Broncos!! and good luck to all the rookies.

I leave you with this from an article on http://www.alternet.org/election08.

"Top Ten Most Disturbing Facts and Impressions of Sarah Palin"

"George Lakoff lists some of the issues swirling around Palin:

She is inexperienced, knowing little or nothing about foreign policy or national issues; she is really an anti-feminist, wanting the government to enter women's lives to block abortion, but not wanting the government to guarantee equal pay for equal work, or provide adequate child health coverage, or child care, or early childhood education; she shills for the oil and gas industry on drilling; she denies the scientific truths of global warming and evolution; she misuses her political authority; she opposes sex education and her daughter is pregnant; and, rather than being a maverick, she is on the whole a radical right-wing ideologue."

Here's the link Top Ten Most Disturbing Facts and Impressions of Sarah Palin

The New GOP

The old GOP was dumb and powerful.

The new GOP is invincible.


GOD.

I hate the fact that this blog has centered on politics. I never meant for anything more than a few friends and some indie-music lovers to read this...But now I may be attracting the wrong crowd.


I feel that McCain's running mate makes him invincible. I don't think that she helps woman (at all), but she is a woman. Therefore, she will gather some Clinton voters.

I feel that McCain's running mate makes their would campaign seem tainted. The McCain/Palin ticket is the mirror image of the Obama/Biden ticket. The reasons people vote for the O/B ticket will be the same reasons people vote for the McC/P ticket. However, I think that the Republicans will win. People have forgotten about the Republican controlled Congress and Senate.



When I started this blog I hoped to be blessed by anonymity. However, when I started this blog I hoped to feed a horde of hipsters with new ideas of what music is. Unfortunately, I have been stuck on cynical predictions of what the future election holds.

I don't just want America to be great. I just want America to be great for everyone...And I wish rich people gave a little bit more to the rest of the country. Obviously, if you are rich or you are still rich, America has been good to you.


Progressive income tax? With President Breitbarth, the richest 1% would be paying 41% of our nations taxes instead of 35%.

Show Some Love and Respect

I want to make music like Interpol. I want to make music that makes me fall headfirst, like Minus the Bear. I want the shy, yet, uninhibited passion of Destroyer.

I can write the songs. I can sing the songs. I can't write the music. I can't play the music.

Do you have a dream?

Are you willing to do whatever it takes to make it?

If so, you should join me. I need your help, and you need me.

Your Viceroy

Well, who will serve alongside of John McCain as the Vice President of the United States of America?

Sadly, but consistently, my faith is the American democratic process is dissipating. However, this is not some conspiracy against "the establishment", this is a theory that the American people have helped me formulate. I would prefer that Barack Obama lead our nation, but I just don't know if that is going to happen.

I'm starting to get the feeling that many people felt after the 2004 Election, "This candidate couldn't win." Granted, Obama isn't running against the political wunderkind that is George W. Bush. It's still an uphill battle, and McCain plays dirty.

For much of last night, I thought, "Please. Please let Obama choose a dynamite candidate." I was hoping he'd announce today that his running mate was none other than Al Gore. I knew he wouldn't pick Clinton, there is an air of mental breakdown that surrounds her. Not to mention, her secret hatred for Obama.

The gas stations have been advertising a new flavor, "Election Time Gas". All of the sudden 70 cents disappeared from the price of gas. From what I understand the stock price of crude oil has been fluctuating in favor of consumers for about a month, but I can't believe that the impeding election has nothing to do with it. I remember the 2006 election season. I think that was the last time gas was under $3/gallon, and within two weeks after the election the price was back to normal.

Personally, I love the idea of Sen. Biden. He's got political experience, he's got knowledge of foreign affairs, he has a son that is being deployed to Iraq, he has persevered through devastating personal tragedy, and I hear he commutes to work from Delaware. He wears a Navy Blue Collar. However, I'm sure much of that will disappear now that he's the vice presidential candidate.

Realistically, the legitimacy that Biden brings to this campaign will be overlooked by any one that isn't already planning to vote for Obama. Senator Joe Biden is the type of candidate my father could vote for...but he won't. He'll be flying a McCain flag. I can feel it. My father is a modern Everyman, and I can see his patterns being followed by most Americans.

All and all, I ask you this question, and you have 6 years to answer it:

Is America lost?