Football and elections

You know, being here and having to get the football news by reading about it is interesting. Not fulfilling but interesting. Looks like Phil Fulmar is toast and probably deserved based on the last few seasons and the increased level of competition. This is kind of the way I am looking at the election. Time for some new direction.

This is like the train wreck of Wall Street, I can sit here and watch but can't do anything about it. I have written all the elected representatives I can find and they seem to be drinking the Kool-Aid of taking care of their Wall Street friends, they were not worried about bailing out my small business when the hard times hit.

I will not vote for either of our Senators or Zack Wamp again, they are not any different than a Tax and Spend Democrat except they want the grandkids to pay for their spending. If these are things we should be doing, then pay for it. If you can't bring yourself to vote for the money to pay for something, then don't spend it.

The 850B bailout for Wall Street would have been better spent on my 401K, but they don't seem to care about what happens to a regular person, just the big campaign contributors. We need to teach the Republicans a lesson during this election, they forgot how to watch over spending and spent more than a Democrat would. I hope when they get their A$$'s kicked by the public, they learn the lesson they forgot when they took over in the 90's. I normally believe in a split government but this one time, I hope the Republican party gets its' tail kicked for not doing the right thing. I plan on voting out the Democrats in 4 years but the GOP has to learn a hard lesson, if you are not going to be different, who needs you. Read read the article WWJD at http://www.frankcagle.com/

Kind of the same thing for Fulmar, if he can't deliver, then replace him.

Life as usual

Back from our trip to Cyprus, overall a good trip but as usual after being in country, we would have done some things differently. First let me say, the Euro is killing any more trips for me to EU countries, the rental car and hotels were not too far out of line on cost BUT food was way over the top. We will normally eat at a chain restaurant (at least once) to compare cost, etc between countries. The hamburger that is $8 in US, is $11 in Doha, was $17 in Cyprus. Nothing was cheap on the Greek side, the Turkish side was a little more reasonable and less developed so we enjoyed that part of the trip, if we did it again, more time on the Turkish side and less in the Greek side. Looks like all future trips will have to be toward the East where the dollar $$$ still has some value. Hello Thailand or Bali.