Pirates in Somalia

Ok we all have been reading about the pirates in somalia for the last few years now… what I want to know is when will the world get pro active with it? With all of our technology every ship that passes through the area should have enough fire power to blow them out of the water at the first sneeze from them. Surely arming a ship and crew to take care of themselves would be more cost effective than the constant stoppage and hostage taking and ransoms. When any group resorts to this type of behaviour it’s time to not turn the other cheek, now we should just kick ass and get it over with. I mean it’s hard to be a pirate when your trying to paddle a splinter left in the ocean.

Idol What???????

Ok I promised myself I wasn’t going to watch American Idol this year, but that program is like a train wreck, you have to watch just to gross yourself out. Last year the talent was real, more than one could have won and I would have been happy. This year it’s like a bunch of junior high school tryouts! Surely there is more talent out there than this? Are the deciding judges just getting bored and sloppy? I mean they ARE the ones that decide who will make it into the competition in the first place and frankly none this year with the exception of Adam should even be there. I have seen Kris do a number or so that was ok and could have been good but he’s not consistent. None of the rest of them and I DO mean none of the rest of them should even be there because there range is at best limited and by watching the judges faces you can see they are struggling to say something nice, anything nice. Even Simon seems too bored to even be mean and in fact I rarely think he is mean he is just to the point. Well I have to thank all of them this year because they have made it very easy for me to now channel surf on their timeslot.

Wow it’s been 3 Days!

I can’t believe it’s been three days since my last blog, dang time flies by quickly! Well it’s april 8th and we had snow yesterday and this morning now does that SUCK or what? Not that anything will last mind you, we are getting to close to the sun for that now but it’s just the promise of spring for a week or so and then BOOM! Not nice mother nature! Speaking of mother nature, please remember that on the 22nd of this month is Earth Day! It might seem like just another day to you but it’s not. It’s a day you can make your own small commitment to help green up mother earth. Small things help, like no plastic when you go shopping or not buying from companies that use styrofoam little things REALLY add up especially when we all do them. Our landfills are overflowing and much of it will never dissolve, never return to what it once was and as the populations of the world rise so does our garbage, expoentially! So go to Earth Day.com and see how you can help, your puppy will lick you for it!

Todays a Wash…..

Not really much for me to blog about today because after working a few hours this morning from 6 a.m. until about 11 a.m. I did a bit of grocery shopping and had every intention of working out in the yard. Wayyyyyyy too windy for that! So instead I did the next best thing, I ate some lunch and took a nap! I am sooooo lame sometimes! Well Monday it’s back to the gym for me! Not so much as to “get back into shape” because at my age, 55, there is no such thing. Instead I must try to maintain and not turn into one of those horrid saggy older Americans we see now, heck we even see that with the young ones now. It makes me appreciate how much effort people in film and the public eye must work to keep up their appearance. I know we all envy them there lifestyle, but if you look around at average American Joe and Jane, they sure are not willing to put in the effort that those guys do so my hats off to them. I still envy them their lifestyle but I do NOT envy them what they must go through to have it!

Are They Kidding ME?

Ok this one will be short and sweet. The G20 Summit is bringing together a package of one TRILLION to help us out of this financial mess…umhmmm. Now I don’t know if any of these nations have really balanced their checkbooks in a DAY OR TWO, however all of them are in actuality broke. Money is just numbers not the actual cash we have on hand, so pray tell or should I say “prey” tell, where are we going to get the money FOR this? Borrow it from each other? Of course, silly me, rob Peter to pay Paul. What a joke.
Why don’t we do something really radical like teach our politicians and children alike to spend only what you HAVE! Credit has led to more greed which leads to more credit more greed…you get the picture and the economic reality of this is simple… we are never going to live long enough to pay it off! Where does all that bad debt then go? Why to the living of course, who are spending like crazy, dollars they don’t have so THEY can die and leave billions more to the people that are living to pay off with inflated house prices, goods and interest rates. Yep guys, thank god for that summit you have really spent more of our tax dollars that we do not have to pay and that you do not have in your pockets yet, for a good cause. Oh wait, you probably charged it right?