Rant

Today let me just share a stream of conscience with you.

The manager of my son's soccer team is a tool. Not sure there is a better word to describe him. I won't make fun of his inability to use spell check to proof his largely incoherent emails. I won't point out the fact that his mastery of the English language is only slightly above that of a third grader, but I will point out that he is a tool. He should check his ambitions at the door, acknowledge that he never played professional soccer and that he should shut the heck up...How about we re institute "playground rules". I'd like to see how many of the big shots and blowhards we run into daily would behave if you could just call them out and go straight to fisticuffs. I am guessing their behavior would, in most cases, be much changed. I have no problem mixing it up. Never have, but I do have the scars to prove it (I was not always the victor). Let's see if some of the tough guys out there are really "tough"..Obama, I cannot remember a President who talked so much and did so little (though Clinton's hobnobbing with the pop stars, movie stars and other social illiterate made a run at it). Why doesn't he put his head down and get to work like the rest of us. I don't know about you but I don't give a crap about where he vacations; and, quite frankly, given how tough things are for everyone here, think he should pass on the photo ops in Hawaii, Maine or Martha's Vineyard and do some damn work. Better yet, maybe he could do us all a favor, admit he is in way over his head and resign...While Obama is at it, maybe he can take all of Congress with him...How, as a nation, are we so stupid as to be unable to pass term limitations? Service in government was never meant to be a career. That is called bureaucracy...Better even still, how about we put in term limits and pay each member of Congress (and the President) $1 a year in salary. We will give them room and board but nothing else and maybe then only people who really want to do the job, for the right reasons, will do it...Why does anyone watch the news any more? Just read the op ed, assuming one can read. The news channels have become op eds themselves and a disgrace...Speaking of disgrace, why are we wasting tax payer money on the two escaped convicts who raped and murdered 3/4s of a Chesire, CT family (the father, a local doctor survived the ordeal but is now reliving it through the prosecution of the trial). Tell you what, if no one else will, I will pull the switch. Save us all a couple dollars. I don't really want to hear how these two degenerates had it hard before they stumbled on this family, forcing the mother to withdraw $15,000 from her local bank while they held her two daughters hostage, then raping her and ultimately killing the two girls as they set the house on fire and the girls were chained to a radiator in the house. It is tough out there for everyone. Some just should not be given a second chance. Just flip the switch...And how about Braylon Edwards? aside from his personal grooming habits, why was he allowed to play football last week? He was arrested after blowing more than 2 times the legal limit at 5:15am. This is the same guy who left Cleveland, having supposedly making amends for smacking his then girlfriend by contributing some cash to make the story go away. Ah, and yes, who was he out partying with? The NY Jet who hit and killed an immigrant worker around the same time in the morning a few years back while drunk as a skunk. he, too, paid money and professed "remorse" to lighten his punishment. Nice...Did I leave anyone or anything out?