Someone’s Bitter

I am looking at Rush Limbaugh’s website just to see what he is saying about the historic Republican losses. I find him to be a big, funny man so I’m gonna give you a couple of his quotes:

“We have proven we can beat them. We have proven we can beat Democrats. We have proven we can withstand whatever we get from the Drive-By Media. Conservatism, when properly applied with vigor and honesty, will triumph in this country.”  Maybe I’m missing out on something but I thought that you guys lost both houses of the Congress Tuesday.

“Think the militant Islamists and terrorists are happy today? Of course they are! They’re looking at their own future with promise, brighter days, and the Sun never setting.”  I just love this one. The Republicans couldn’t finish the Iraq war and find Bin Laden so the terrorists would be happy for them to stay

“If elderly people in Pennsylvania happen to think that the war in Iraq is wrong primarily because it uses money that could be coming to them as increased benefits, then who are they going to blame? They’re going to blame that young whippersnapper Santorum who doesn’t care about them!” Big Rush isn’t far from being elderly himself but he’s wealthy so the issue of growing old knowing that Social Security won’t be there for him doesn’t effect him. Thanks Rush for disrespecting a whole generation of people who fought for freedom in War World II, Korea, and Vietnam. Where did you serve?

It’s Official

I’m watching CNN now and Senator George Allen of Virginia is making his concession speech. This means that the Democrats have 51 seats in the Senate to thr Republicans 49 seats. The election was a sweep with the Democrats taking over. I’m so excited because it means no more of the President and the Republicans ruling the country like a dictatorship. No more freedoms taken from us with Naziesque laws like The Patriot Act. Now the president is saying he wants to work with the Democrats. Where was that before? Now things like raising the minimum wage, maybe curing diseases with stem cell research, and a protection for Roe vs. Wade. Now only 2 years and maybe the Democrats can take back the White House with either NY Senator Hillary Rodham-Clinton, or Illinois Senator Barack Obama. I can’t wait. Go here to read about the Democrats 6-Point Plan that includes A Healthcare System that works for everyone, Energy Independence, Retirement Security, Economic Prosperity and Educational Excellence, Real Security, and Honest Leadership and Open Government. I am very liberal and would love to see some of these initiatives happen. Especially the Energy Independence. I am the biggest Big Oil company skeptic with the way they put their former executives (and I’m sure current stockholders) into the Executive Branch so they could gouge us with outrageous gas prices and make record profits. Honest Leadership is another one I’m not sure about. I mean, the Democrats say they are for the same things I am for but once they get to Washington, the become politicians and really only vote with the lobbyists who fatten their pockets (thats right, I said it. If any of you are reading this then prove me wrong.) At least Donald Rumsfeld is gone.

whats going on

Ok, so you all know of my elation at the midterm election results and the resignation of Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld but here’s whats going on with me. I joined the fitness center today. My first day included 1/4 mile running on the track, 1 mile of walking on the treadmill, and 1.5 miles on the exercise bike. It’s nice because with working 3rd shift and getting off at 7 am I can go to the gym for an hour when I get off work. I don’t know what I’ll do tomorrow but I’ll let you know my progress. Also, my birthday (yuck..33) is Friday so I plan to begin my project of chronicling my year by taking a picture everyday for a year. Also, I have just under 3 weeks til I can start blogging for PayPerPost so I’m sure you’ll notice that but don’t worry, I will only blog about or endorse things that I care about.

What a Great Day for America

When I woke up today I saw that The Democrats had taken back Congress I got excited. Finally someone to put the President in check, even though he circumvented The Republican Congress whenever possibly. I guess now though he’ll dust of the old Veto pen which he didn’t use for the first 5 years AT ALL. But now I discover that theres icing on the cake. Donald Rumsfeld resigned. I guess it took the whole country being dissatisfied with the war he helped orchestrate to force his hand because we all know that the Generals who served in Iraq speaking out against him didn’t do anything. I am so excited now. I will update more on his replacement later. Oh, and Claire McCaskill from Missouri won.

Election Night thoughts

I’m sitting here watching CNN and Fox News Election coverage hoping that the Democrats can take back the Senate and the House and I wanted to tell you a little story. The County I live in had a sheriffs race that was interesting. The challenger’s position was that he smoked weed for 30 years. He said that our problem wasn’t the pot heads but instead was the crackheads. I just thought that was funny that he would say that and then run for Sheriff. Of course I voted for the guy and of course he lost 88% to 12%. I am happy to see that Rick Santorum, the Republican Senator from Pennsylvania and 3rd most powerful Republican in the Senate lost. I guess when he compared homosexuals to people who commit beastiality, people didn’t take too kindly to that. I hope all of you voted today as did I.

Update: Hillary Rodham Clinton won her Senate race 69% to 29% and so far former Redskins quarterback Heath SHuler is winning his congressional race in NC.

Night Shift

Well, I started on night shift at the hospital this week. On weekends it’s 7pm til 7am and thats what I did on Sunday night. Luckily it was a very quiet night and we didn’t have to do anything but patrol the hospital. Unfortunately that makes for a very LONG night. I guess its better than the alternative though. Monday night was better. During the week the shift is Midnight to 7am. 7 hours is not a very bad shift at all. It was quiet again but thats ok. I’m sure there will be nights with fights in the ER or someone trying to finish off a shooting victim. I’ll let you know when the excitement starts.

The Range

Saturday was weapons qualification day for my new job. We got to the range and set up to do the practice run. We went through all of the stages and fired all of our shots and the instructor said, “ok, that wasn’t practice. that was your qualification”. We went back to score them and I made an 87 (only needed an 80 to pass) and my buddy did higher than that. So then we messed around shooting targets to see who could do the best (not me) and left for dinner. We were in a little town called Fairmont, NC that I don’t know much about but we found a little Italian place called You’ll Love It Pizza. It wasn’t bad but after the Uncle Georges Lasagna in Lumberton Friday night that made a weekend with alot of pasta but I digress. We got back out to the range around 6 when it was almost completely dark (and really cold) to do our night fire. We went to load the magazines and instead of the 6 in each like this afternoon I loaded them fully. Theis threw me off, made me try to count when firing, and when we were done I had one round left. Now onto scoring. You guessed it, I scored a74 (when I needed an 80 to pass) so I had to go again. Repeat the whole scenario but this time I started with 6 rounds in each magazine and finished with a 91. Then we returned to the hospital, cleaned and secured our weapons, and came home. I was using a Glock 9 mm which is an ok gun but you can see it here

This week at my new job

Ok, so I’ve been going through firearms training this week to culminate with a day at the range Saturday. Oh yeah, and the weatherman says its going to be 40 degrees saturday…that sucks. Today we had the concealed carry portion of the class and I learned alot. I found out that if someone is trying to break into your house and you honestly believe they are going to try and hurt or kill you then you can shoot them. But if they come into your house and are unarmed then you can’t shoot them. What a learning experience this is. Oh, and I got to bring a 9 mm home to practice getting it out of the holster. And amazingly enough, I don’t even like guns..HAHA. how ironic

Limbaugh embarasses himself

Ok, so I don’t like to broadcast my political views in this blog but as some of you may know I am a proud liberal. I am very vocal on my views on things such as my support for stem cell research. Stem Cell Research offers the possibility of finding cures for diseases such as Alzheimers and Parkinsons. This past week the issue of Stem Cell research has come to light because Michael J. Fox who suffers from Parkinsons did a campaign commercial for Claire McCaskill, a Democratic Senate Candidate in Missouri. In response to this and for reasons I am quite unsure of Rush Limbaugh felt the need to blast Fox on his radio show, even going so far as to mock the facial ticks that are a symptom of his Parkinsons. See the video here. I have never been a fan of Limbaugh but respected him as a person even as he admitted to an addiction to oxycontin, and inadvertantly (or at least I thought at the time)made racist comments while working as an NFL analyst. Not anymore. I have totally lost respect for him. Next week I will vote for candidates that support Stem Cell Research.

Links:  www.michaeljfox.org, www.claireonline.com, www.rushlimbaugh.com, YouTube Limbaugh video

Internet Explorer 7 and Office 2007

Internet Explorer 7 showed up in my automatic updates this week. I’ve been using IE7 for almost a year now and I love it. I’ve never really used Firefox before so I can’t compare it to anything but I do know that I love IE7. I love the tabs and how you can have multiple websites open in one window (I currently have 3 open in this one). Some of the security issues are kind of iffy but all in all, I totally recommend it. If you haven’t installed it I totally recommend you go here and do that. I’ve also been using the test copy of Microsoft Office 2007 but it’s a little confusing. The main difference I’ve noticed is that the menu bar is gone and you have to really search for commands to figure out what you want to do. Of course as I say this and look through the Microsoft website I’ve found a demo video showing you how to use the new office inter face. I’ll have to check that out. I think for now I’ll stick with Office 2003 for now. Tell me what you think.