Still No Clear Front Runner

There still is no clear front runner after the "debate" last night. The format also made for a boring night, not a lot of fire works. Edwards called out HRC and all the other Democrats for voting for the Iraq war, I believe the quote was that they needed to "search their conscience". No doubt HRC will make him pay for that one. Like I eluded to yesterday this was just a way for the Dem's to get free air time to get the best parts of their stump speeches out to the nation. Look for HRC to not be as lady like in the next debate, the boys behind the scenes need to separate her from the rest of the field. The best way for her to do that is to attack like a rabid pit bull. She will be out for blood in the next round.

"Debate" Tonight

I guess I will try to catch some of the "debate" tonight, although I doubt there will be to much debating going on. It will be more like an infomercial with cookie cutter questions and cookie cutter stump speech answers. Nothing new will be learned. Although we may have a clear leader after tonight between "Obamer" (Ted Kennedy's pronunciation) and HRC. My guess will be that Obama will take a small lead. But will see.

Odds:

2 to1 That the Don Imus affair will be brought up.
3 to 1 That the VT shooting are brought up.
1 to 60 Chris Matthews makes another Anti-Semitic joke about Joe Lieberman during the analisys after the debate.

The Hip and the Hop

Russell Simmons who along with Rick Rubin helped bring The Hip and the Hop to the masses in the 80's is calling for the end of the use of the big three words. What will hip and hop artists do with out these words? I cannot condone any type of forced censorship by the government but this will be self imposed. Of course this is not going to happen anyway. The record companies make too much money off of these words for the hip and hop artists to stop using them. And with the record companies already losing millions, I just cant see any real impact Mr. Simmons pronouncement would make. So don't worry, Snoop will still be able to smack his ho's and bitches.

Appoligy Accepted?

The question of if the state of South Carolina should follow the lead of other southern states, and issue an apology for slavery has come up in the past few days. First and foremost I had know idea that slavery only existed in the south. If we do apologize, will reverend Al except? Apology's do not seem to help. Just ask Don Imus.

I have never owned a slave. No one in my family has ever owned a slave. My ancestors never owned slaves. I was however assaulted by a black person when I was in high school. Should I make every black person accountable for this one person. According to this logic maybe so. Please send apology along with reparations check to my home address. My point is that an apology is just a ceremonial piece of paper. I attribute this to buying a crying child a piece of candy at the check out stand, sure it keeps him quiet for a little while but nothing was actually accomplished. South Carolina lets just go ahead and apologize so we can at least get to the car in peace, and we can deal with the next tantrum when we get home. Because you know it's coming.

Westboro Baptist Church

The Westboro Baptist Church plans to protest the funerals of some of the VT shooting victims.
http://www2.ljworld.com/news/2007/apr/20/phelps_church_plans_interrupt_funerals/
If hell exists, there should be a special place there for the good Rev. Phelps and the rest of his flock. I hope he contracts aids and dies a slow painful death, and is then brought back to life, covered in pitch, tied to a post and set a blaze. The same freedom of speech that gives me the right to write this blog, also gives the WBC the right to do what they do. The only good to come out of this vile garbage is that it shows the world what religion is really all about. It is not about love and compassion or salvation. It is about pure hate and evil. If I'm wrong and Jesus (or Mohammad, or Yahweh or whoever) comes back let me be the first to show up with a brand new nail gun and crucify him again for the damage his followers have done in his name for the past 2000 years. Can some one explain to me why, all through history up to the fall of the Roman Empire we had some of the greatest minds teaching and writing the greatest discoveries of our time, the greatest model for governments some parts of which are still used today and relative peace through out the world? Hell, the Romans even had working plumbing. Then after the roman empire fell the Christians took over and it was called the dark ages. The black plague ran rampant, all thought and learning was controlled by the church and stymied. Great famines all but destroyed whole countries. The horror of the Inquisition was fully in effect. These are the things religion has done for the human race. It's sad to think how far along we might be as a society if we could have just kept on feeding there butts to the lions.

Big wheels

They should make Big Wheels for adults.

Mental Capacity

One Addendum on my thoughts about gun control, The mental capacity of a person should be considered for the purchase of any firearm. It is now known that the VT shooter was admitted to a mental health facility in 2005. This should have been taken into consideration and he should not have been allowed to legally purchase a firearm. This of course would not have stopped him from getting one, and these tragic events most likely would have still played out. Their needs to be a way to check the mental background of individuals before purchase. I'm not sure how this can be done but it should be considered.