Week 13

I've got a two point lead in my match up this week. Fitz had a big day Thursday night and got me two tds for twelve points. My opponent had his kicker going and got him ten points.

I'm rolling with my QB Rivers this week. He is still leading the league with passing tds. My RB duo has become more potent over the past two weeks with Turner leading the way with his td explosion. Peterson is finding his groove and has the Bears on tap today. He has done well against the Bears so it will be interesting to see what happens!

Fitz did well already. I'll couple him with Andre Johnson who has the Jags on tap in a nice match up for him and Torry Holt who if he starts I'll be thrilled in the lacking Rams offense.

Jay Feely is my kicker of the day and has a good chance to dominate today and I'm starting the Giants D/ST.

This is a week that had a great start to it as my WRs were the ones who were under performing despite good receiving numbers.

Epic Fail

My dislike for Rosie O'Donnell is epic. She is someone who I cannot stand. She is mean spirited, boisterous, thin skinned, abrasive, divisive, hypocritical, and out and out mean. With apologies for my friends who do like her and enjoy her, I cannot share your opinion.

Much to my delight she is also a failure on network TV now. Several scathing reviews are up on her ill fated variety show attempt this past Thanksgiving Eve.

This was about as predictable as Valkyrie being the next Tom Cruise box office flop....and it will be. It is an bad idea with an actor who is out of favor with the movie going public. Everyone knows Hitler lives after the bomb attempt on his life so who exactly wants to see a movie based on a failed attempt?

That doesn't take a rocket surgeon to figure out. Tom Cruise in an eye patch, a failed conspiracy against one of the most evil men in history, a few B list actors...what's not to like?

Rosie is someone who people have an opinion on, there is no gray area with her. You love her or dislike her. She is similar to Hillary Clinton in that regard. No one is luke warm on Rosie. No one is luke warm on Tom Cruise, you either love him or think he is a nut job cult member.

I don't think Rosie is a nut job cult member so that is a small point in her favor...at least she isn't Tom Cruise.

A Great Thanksgiving!

It was a lot of fun! I had two big feasts, lots of family and other family! I watched the parades and parts of four football games! All in all it was an amazing day and one I'm thankful for!

Today I've got two events to attend. Lunch with two friends at Chili's and then at five a big event downtown to usher in the Christmas season with more friends!

This is a wonderful time of year!

Friends And Family

There are two different kinds of family that you can have. One is the one you can't choose. I happen to love mine and get along well with them. I've got a good family and I'm going there at lunch to have a wonderful Thanksgiving meal and watch some football!

There is also the family that you can choose. This isn't a new concept for me as I feel I'm part of several families. I have a wonderful family in Iowa that I'm close to and I have known for more than twenty years. I have a family here that over the past few years we have grown very close. I'm having another Thanksgiving meal with them today!

I'm thrilled to be so fortunate to have two incredible families that I can have huge meals with and another I know I'd be welcomed anytime I showed up! Some people have no one and I have an abundance of family!

My wish for you fine readers today is that if you have a family, chosen or natural, that you find some peace and joy with them today! If you have no one then my wish for you is that you have the same peace and joy!

Happy Thanksgiving!

Friday!!!!

Well it is actually Wednesday but it is my Friday to a four day weekend!
Rehearsal went pretty well last night. I think I have the light cues ironed out now and the blackouts and fades in the right areas.

I sent off the Operation: Qatar package yesterday. I don't believe it will arrive until next week however it will be worth the wait. It is packed with boxes of cigars and I wrote a Thank You letter and put it on top.

I'm working on a Christmas package now. I asked for requests on what to put in the next shipment. They all have my email address and I hope they give me requests to fill.

My Thursday!

Yes tomorrow is my Friday! I plan on being off the rest of the week after tomorrow!

Rehearsal went pretty well last night. We decided to put some more blackouts into the show to allow the actors to get into place. Stuff like that you just don't think of until you have a full group of actors on stage.

We changed a couple of the delays as well to give more time to get into place. This is a good show though. It has a ton of people in it.

Well third place scored as many points as I did this week at fifty two. That means I didn't put any points on his team but I still maintained my thirty some point lead. A couple of teams put points on me but they were in the lower third of the league and not in striking distance right now.

I'm looking forward to Thanksgiving! I have a couple of dinners to go to and they will all be good!

Mixed Results

I scored over 50 points which was an amazing score and probably secured me third place for the week. I also put points on second, third, and fourth place! A lot of points on fourth place since he scored two points. I put eleven on second place which was really nice and helpful!

Third place has a couple of players tonight going so I don't know exactly how many I'll put on third yet. The spread is over twenty right now though!

The bad news is that I lost this week in my match up. My opponent has seventy five points and still has Ryan Grant going tonight! He has a lock on first place. Second place this week clocked in with sixty points. He is done though as am I.

Michael Turner had four tds yesterday giving me a much needed boost in points! He was a beast and unstoppable! Peterson had one td in the effort which helped. My wide receivers are my weak point. They rarely score but have incredible receiving days. Fitz had a great day in receptions and yardage. Johnson had a better day with over one hundred yards but I only get a point for that. Nothing for Fitz's effort.

If they would ever get a couple of tds every other week or so I'd feel a lot better about winning my league. As it is second and third are too close to me right now.

Week 12

Today I'm going to start Rivers, Peterson and Turner as my RBs, and since I started Washington on Thursday I'll be starting Fitz and Johnson. I used up my D/ST on Thursday as well.

Pittsburgh really didn't smash up the Cinncy offense as I was hoping for. It seemed to be a tailor made game for them to dominate as well and they got me two points. So I'm up 2-0 right now.

We'll see how today plays out, the match ups are average. It could go either way, single digit scoring or a sixty point day.

A Great Friday!

So there we were at work, we got to work a no lunch and got off forty five minutes early!

That was really nice! Then I had to go to Walmart and get some shopping done. Needed such things as light bulbs, razors, stuff like that. I also picked up Tropic Thunder and Wall-E.

Then I came home to get ready for supper with friends at the pub. We sat there and chatted for about three hours, said goodbye and I came home about 9:30. Then I get a text from Nathan that he wants to go out. So I pack up again and head to Buffalo Wild Wings for another supper but much later.

I get home for the third time and final time of the day at around 11:30! I was only in the mood for sleeping after that!

It Still Isn't

Guns N' Roses. I listened to it a couple of times after rehearsal last night and it disappoints.

This is the album that was seventeen years in the making. That had undergone tons of lineup changes. Axl must have thought, "I got an idea, I'll get rid of all the original members who made Gn'R great and make this!"

Why?!?!?!

As I already blogged about, Gn'R has a pedigree to live up to. This simply fails to do so. Gone are the powerful Slash riffs. The rhythm of Izzy or even Gilby. The powerful driving bass of Duff. Steven or Matt, your call there though. Both were very good but they are also gone.

It is a disappointment in my book to put this album out under the Guns N' Roses name.

How The Mighty Have Fallen

Once upon a time Guns N' Roses was the biggest, baddest band in the world. Lawsuits, breakups, and many years have passed since their last studio release. Axl Rose is the lone owner of the Gn'R name now....and it shows.....

Chinese Democracy, the long in work and fabled new Gn'R release is due to hit stores Saturday however it is now streaming here.

Appetite For Destruction was one of the rawest, baddest, most powerful pieces of metal that it deserves its own wing in the rock n' roll hall of fame. Lies followed it up and was pure art and enough to tide fans over until Use Your Illusion I and II came out. Civil War preceded I and II though on Romanian Angel Appeal, a charity album.

All I can say is this is more of an Axl solo album than a Gn'R release. This direction is almost mellow instead of the hard drinking, hard living Appetite.

I don't know, this could have been called anything else and it might be a decent album. With it carrying the Gn'R name it has a pedigree to live up to and it really doesn't do that in my opinion.

This is a LOT different than when Metallica went from their Justice album to the Black album. It might take a couple of times in listening to it but it seems like it is years and years too late to be relevant now.

Tech Rehearsal

Has been moved from tomorrow night to tonight. That means I'll be there at 6:30 to start to get things put together and underway. We programmed all of the cues in last Sunday so it shouldn't be a big deal to go through this without a hitch.

However I do expect a hitch or two. That's just the way things go. There will be something we overlooked and in a show with this many cues, over sixty lighting cues, it is bound to happen.

Tomorrow night is likely a full on rehearsal with everything and everyone. I'll miss the game tonight but I am starting Nate Washington. Against the Bungles he might just have a good game! Its worth the shot anyway! With that said I believe I'll also start the Pittsburgh D/ST. They should pound the Bungles into the ground and get a few sacks/ints.

Man Hall Of Fame Part 22

One of my favorite singers of all time is Tom T. Hall. I think one of the first songs I learned was Sneaky Snake! A childlike song about a snake who likes root beer.

If you have never heard the melancholy tale of The Homecoming you have done yourself a disservice. Never listened to the wisdom of Old Dogs, Children, and Watermelon Wine then you are poorer as a compassionate human.


If you have never enjoyed the simple message of I Love then you are indeed prone to being cynical. The bluesgrassy Fox On The Run is alone worthy of anyone's admiration!

I'd rather put this version of Homecoming by the legend himself than a version that is superior sounding but with a video of a jerkoff posing for the camera.



Tom T. Hall is a storyteller in music. His voice is warm, gentle, and wise. There aren't many artists who can match his resume or longevity in the business. Tom T. Hall is a legend and deserving to be in the Man Hall of Fame!

Penultimate The Shield

Tonight is the next to last episode for The Shield. Vic is fighting for tomorrow, Shane is on the run, Ronnie is hanging by a thread, Claudette and Dutch are circling in for the kill.

I know that this series will go out with a bang and not a whimper. I think that Vic will meet his demise and not be locked up. The further this show goes into this season and the closer it comes to closing the more I do believe Vic will go out with guns blazin'!

About an hour and a half to go and it won't be long before there is THE showdown between Shane and Vic!

Still Back In First Place!!!!

Second place's kicker just didn't score enough points last night so I retain the lead by three points! Third place gained quite a bit of ground on both of us. So here are the point totals 478, 475, 449.

I had a much bigger gap over third and beyond until this weekend. I'm just excited to see when my team will go off. It will for a big amount before the season is over with, it always does. Every player will click and post good numbers and it will give me a much larger lead over the field.

With less weeks left in the season now it will be difficult to catch me once they do go off for insane numbers!!

7-4

I'm the only 7-4 team in my league! Seven are tied at 6-5. I'm also back on top after falling to second place last week. I gained enough points to give me a twelve point lead however he still has his kicker going tonight.

He could wind up in first place by the time the game ends tonight if his kicker socres double digits. I had to swap kickers yesterday as John Carney is now on the bench and Lawrence Tynes is taking over kicking duties. He was injured most of the season and is healthy now.

I will probably drop Carney now and pick up the top free agent kicker. I scored thirty points, Michael Turner had a great game and got two tds. My defense scored, and my kicker got six. AP started out with a great half and tailed off. Fitz had over 150 yards but didn't catch a td. Johnson had a blah day. Holt was almost nonexistent as well. Rivers had no tds in Pittsburgh in rough weather.

If any of them would have scored it would have helped me put distance on the field. I was below my 43.5 scoring average which still leads the league. I'm still looking for that one week where they all click at the same time. It will happen and when it does I'll likely finish the year on top.

A Great Day

Yesterday day and evening were very good! I was extremely worn out by the end of the day since I drove nearly seven hours but all in all it was fun.

I and some of my family members drove to visit more family for the day. Did some fun things like a zoo and what not.

Drove back and I went with some of my dear friends and one dear friend in particular to a show. We stayed for the first act as I was dead tired.

Today I have my full lineup going! Rivers, Peterson, Turner, Fitz, Johnson, and my third WR is a toss up between Nate Washington and Torry Holt. It will probably be Holt. John Carney as my kicker and the Giants D! I feel ok about today's match ups. Not great but ok.

Getting Cold Again

The leading edge of Winter is upon my part of the country. Temperatures start to dip below forty in the evenings and the day times struggle to reach sixty.

Evenings will be filled with my noisier than average heater, tv, and hot chocolate. My cats will want to be in my lap while in the Summer they are content to sleep on the back of the couch.

I have two humidifiers now that will keep the house from drying out in the cold, dry air. My stacks of DVDs will be entertainment while other evenings I will work at the theatre on what ever show I've committed to. I don't have to work dinner theatre now as my director friend has pulled out to devote more time to her family.

No one knows who the new director is as they haven't been selected so I'm unsure if I'll be running the tech for the show. If they ask I will.

I purchased The Watchmen on Itunes. It is a motion comic, panel by panel with a single voice actor. I can't tell you how moving this comic is, how profound. It is a genuine work of art and literature. I hope the movie does it justice.

I've read rumors the ending event has changed. If the rumors are to be believed I think I'm ok with the change. The climax was a little hokey now but it was written over twenty years ago. The story stands the test of time but that was the weakest link, I think it might be stronger now as a movie, if it remains faithful.

It is such an odd and challenging story to translate to film. It jumps around in time and to different characters a lot. Its so sprawling that it would be hard to focus in a two hour movie, actually impossible. It would need a movie the size of one of the extended editions of Lord of the Rings to do it correctly, about three and a half to four hours.

I doubt that will happen though.

Supper And A Donation!

Operation: Qatar has picked up some momentum. I started to reach out through someone close to me to a local shop that has a small selection of cigars. Low and behold they came through with a nice and generous donation for Beersnob and the troops!

I also received a commitment of several unopened boxes of cigars from a very good friend and the man who gave me my first humidor and starter sampler! I believe he has given up cigar smoking for marathon running. The two really don't mix and I know my friend well enough to know that he doesn't get junk cigars.

I've been prowling the cigar auction sites for good quality deals and have come across a couple. I've also been on Club Stogie visiting the subforums for cigars that people want to sell.

These is an excellent project thus far and I know that what is sent will be used and enjoyed!

I also had a very good supper with a friend last night. Chris, you'll remember him from directing two of the movies I helped with and he was in Locker, the movie I wrote and directed. He has got a really good job now and wanted to get out of the house a bit! So we had supper and a very nice conversation!

Two Episodes Left

Watched The Shield last night, I had DVR'd it from the evening before but was too busy to get to it.

I am going to withhold judgment thus far to see how the last two episodes are handled but it seems right now that the writers are dragging this out longer than it should have been done. It has gotten very nuanced when it was more hard hitting and gritty. The snappiness isn't there right now.

Hoping that the writers came up with such an extraordinary finish for the series that it took a lot of nuance to get it to this point for the slam bang finish this series deserves. I am positive of one thing though, they won't Soprano it. There will be a conclusion and it will probably make as many people angry as it will satisfy them.

I'm sure that all of the characters will have their own conclusion, Vic, Ronnie, Shane, Julian, Claudette, Dutch all of them will have their characters wrapped up somehow, it just might not be as satisfying as we would like it.

Sons of Anarchy continues to impress. This young show has gotten more interesting by the week. It also has two more shows left and it seems that Clay is becoming more isolated by his criminal decisions. Jackson is finding his moral compass while still treading down a bloody path. The rest of the gang has their own little arcs but generally follow the main arc. It is clear though that Clay and Jacks will be at odds very soon though.

Sirius XM Merger

Since it is now completed and everything I get up this morning to an email from Sirius that tells me that I have a new channel lineup.

They've done away with the names of a few channels from what I can tell and moved a few around. They added about ten I think, it is hard to tell right now without a side by side list to compare them with. It is nice to have a few more choices to choose from!

This is going to take a while to get used to and to see exactly what they've done but it looks like a positive move on the surface! Buzzsaw is now called Boneyard. Boneyard didn't play very good music while Buzzsaw was a lot like The KATT when I was in high school, they played a great mixture of heavy metal and hard rock! They would play the hits and they would play some oddball things once in a while where you would say, "Wow! I haven't heard that in years!!!!"

I like Buzzsaw but maybe this is just a name change, I hope. Boneyard on XM would usually play oddball things all the time and it took forever to hear something you actually liked!!!! It was like mining through a lot of mud to get a gold nugget most of the time.

I'm sure there will be a lot of changes going on in the lineup in the next few months so this is likely just an opening act.

Ooopppsss!

Well I slipped into second place after a surprise td by the San Francisco special teams. I would have stayed in first if it weren't for that too!

I'm now in second place with 448 total points trailing first place at 452. He had a monster day from Thomas Jones who had a three td day totaling twenty points. Otherwise I would have put another ten points on second in total scoring!

That's alright, I'm almost fifty up on third place which as I said yesterday is a good sized margin. I believe I have a great shot at first place. I'd be scoring incredible amounts of points if Andre Johnson would catch a few more tds! He leads the NFL in yards after all!!!!

Today is Veteran's Day. Do something good for a Vet you know!

Still First Place!!!!

The second place team stayed right with me and we tied in total points for the week with 37. That should be enough for me to win my weekly match up as well so I'll be sitting at 7-3 for the season. I have one more player going tonight while my weekly match up has two in Issac Bruce and Frank Gore. I have a 10 point lead though.

Second place has a player as well however every time his player (Kurt Warner) throws a td to my player (Larry Fitzgerald) I'll gain two points on him. Third place put points on me however. Eleven to be exact. His kicker went off as well as DeAngelo Williams while I had good showings from Adrian Peterson with 192 yards rushing and a td. Michael Turner had a good game adding a td to my total as well.

My WRs aren't producing as they should be. Andre Johnson is going flat after a few weeks of monster receiving games in yardage. Torry Holt is on a horrible team and was lucky to get any receptions at all. That's alright though, they need to click together one big time and that will put my points lead securely in first place and make it harder for anyone to catch me.

A fifty point lead is big. That is hard to make up if you are hitting your averages. Every week you there will be a small points gain or loss, usually in the single digits. I wouldn't be surprised if I cut the eleven points that third place gained down to five or I'll even gain a point if Fitz gets two tds.

Week 10

Well it began on Thursday with me getting ten points from Matt Prater and will end today with me getting another eighty points from the rest of me team!!!! Yeah that's what I want to happen!

I want career days from every player! We'll see how it turns out though. I'll be missing large parts of the games as I am going to a lighting work shop at the theatre today. As I've blogged about before I'm working lights on the next two shows and they have a new lighting system. I'm going to go learn the ins and outs of it today.

It should be over with my four and I'll return home to a massive explosion of points in my favor;) I'm meeting my friend Nathan and his girlfriend at Buffalo Wild Wings for some lunch at noon and to watch the kickoffs.

I have to fit laundry in today and football watching time as well. Going to be a busy day!

Getting Around

A little later this morning than usual. I have to go to the store and get groceries and then get some fuel.

Everyone gets to spend less now since gas is under two bucks. Not me....diesel is still hovering around two ninety. Not complaining though, I enjoy having a diesel. It is more maintenance but it is very manly! LOL!

Last weekend I bought a new microwave. I haven't had one in about a year and it was actually a pretty interesting experience not to have a microwave around. It changes your cooking habits quite a bit. My last one just broke and quite working and I never replaced it. Well now that my urologist has me on a low sodium diet, under 2000 mgs, I've started getting those frozen vegetable packages from the store. They are usually very low in sodium.

All of the tasty things have sodium in them though, that I learned quickly....

Week 10

With Denver taking on Cleveland last night I decided to start Matt Prater, my kicker. It paid off with ten points! So far I'm up 10-0 in my match up with Beersnob's team!

He has a full team to go on Sunday so it will even out by then. All in all it is a good start though and a nice advantage going into the Sunday games ten points up. A temporary advantage though it may be.

Jay Cutler had a huge night but I think Philip Rivers will have a good game Sunday as well, he might not throw four tds but he will have solid numbers! Adrian Peterson should have a good game as well as he really is starting to get on track and get consistent in his game.

Fitz and Andre Johnson are still studs and post good yardage numbers every week lately they just need to add in a couple of tds here and there and my league leading numbers will skyrocket! They will, there is a lot of season left!

Before June 2009

The Obama middle class tax cut will be history and deemed unfeasible. Instead everyone will receive a tax increase when the Bush tax cuts expire or are repealed.

Somewhere in the world, likely Iran or China, they will cause an international incident which will be the first test of Obama. If Iran doesn't have nuclear weapons now they will have. Probably what will happen is that Iran threatens Israel and Israel attacks them bringing condemnation from an Obama administration, the UN, and the Middle East.

There will be lots of new laws passed that are under the term "budget" that will be packaged together and only require a 51 vote margin to pass. This will nullify the filibuster and the only power that the minority has to protect the country from voluminous amounts of new government programs that will be adding to the trillion dollar deficits. None of the programs will be useful or helpful in any way. They will just be more layers to the bureaucracy onion.

These are just three off the top of my head that will likely happen. No tax cut, international crisis, more big government.

Guess

It wasn't a bad dream after all.

President Elect Carte....er....Obama

The next two years will be very telling for the political future of America. I've got a built in allergy towards monarchies and socialists. I'm starting to get itchy all over.

The silver lining is that conservatives will barely prevent unfettered Senate control by Reid. The House though will be driven further left by Pelosi and I fear that both houses will either pull Obama with them or worse yet be lead further left by Obama.

The product of the Chicago political machine will now have to stand and deliver on his promises. The racist peddlers such as Sharpton and Jackson are now officially out of business. The race card is as impotent as Jose Canseco.

Obama has a delicate balancing act as he courted the far loony left, is comfortable in the company of terrorists such as Bill Ayers, and racist radicals like Reverend Wright but he still has to govern and that means learning a LOT of things you didn't know before you had the big chair. That means many of his positions will not please the loonies.

Conservatives will now be driven underground to regroup while a handful in the Senate stand in the way of liberal domination waiting for the cavalry to arrive in 2010.

So it is time to define what conservatism means now. It is time to stop fighting each other and stop compromising with the left. It is time to come up with a game plan that in two years will be used to defeat the left in both houses. It is time to find another Reagan and give him both houses to govern.

Tonight the shining city on the hill has taken a dramatic turn to the left. I pray that we are not attacked as Joe Biden has predicted because I fear we will not retaliate as Clinton didn't retaliate (well outside of a few cruise missiles) when our embassies were bombed and as the Cole was bombed.

As Ayatollah Khomeini held our hostages for the worst Presidential administration in modern history I fear that we are again ignorant of those lessons under Carter and must now repeat them in a bizarro summer school under the watchful big brotherish eye of Barack Obama.



This is what is expect of Obama as President. The land of not having to pay for gas and mortages.

Reality will be much different.

Holy Election Day Batman!

Let's hope that today we don't take a step further down the income redistribution path that could set our country back at least six to ten years. Let's hope that today we take a step towards curtailing the size and scope of our massive pig of a government.

Let's hope that today the educated vote and those who are just sitting around all day with a bong in one hand and a twinkie in the other forget to vote. Honestly if you don't have a income tax liability I really don't care what your opinion is, you are likely voting to keep getting something for nothing off of the backs who work for what they earn.

Let's hope that tonight we know the results of the election and not a month from now.

Let's hope that it is a fair election in which no one can find fault in the process.

America is stronger than the dangerous policies of Obama and he won't be able to destroy the country in two years. If his first two are a Jimmy Carter style of failure more than likely conservatives will sweep into office with the midterm elections and lame duck Obama. His damage will be limited to two years and from that we can easily recover from.

I feel I have a total entitlement to what I earn but I don't want a penny from what you earn, you work hard for what you earn and deserve to keep it and distribute it as you please. The government has no moral right to take your income and give it to those it deems as deserving.

You will still have to pay your mortgage, put gas in your vehicle, and keep your lights on no matter who wins. It is just a matter of how much money will be left out of your paycheck to do that.

Still In First!!!!

I survived the bye weeks and not only held onto my lead but the meager 29 points I've managed to score is going to put points on second and third place as they scored less!

I've got Nate Washington going tonight, I dropped Devan Hester and acquired Washington yesterday.

I will likely lose my match up this week as I'm down 43-29 though but the team I'm facing isn't a threat to my points lead. They are doing really well to get into the thirties every week.

Now I've upped my league lead and the margin is nine with one of my players left. It is possible the margin will increase tonight but we'll see!

Week 9

Today's lineup will be one with lots of potential because of match ups. Arizona has the weak St. Louis defense to contend with today, Fitz should get at least one td. Adrian Peterson might have a good day against the Texans, at least rushing he will, lets hope he gets some tds to go with the yardage.

Philip Rivers is on a bye this week, the last bye I'll have for the remainder of the season. If I maintain my lead today I'll be 100% the rest of the season and will have survived the toughest part of my schedule.

David Garrard steps in today as my QB. He has been on a tear lately and if he can get 2 tds I'll be thrilled. If he gets 1 then I'll be happy! Michael Turner gets Oakland today, he should run buck wild over them and be a threat to break a long td every time he touches the ball.

So today's lineup looks like this, Garrard QB, Peterson and Turner RB, Fitz, Johnson, and Holt QR, Carney K, and the Giants defense and special teams since they have the Dallas Cowboys today who are in the middle of an implosion. I believe the G-Men will get to the QB a LOT today and might produce a td in the process.

A Good Halloween Night!

It was a lot of fun, I didn't make the second Halloween party I was going to attend but I did make the first one after the show.

There were some tense moments last night as a political discussion broke out but was brought under control by a change of topic at the party. A couple of CPAs were explaining what higher taxes mean and how they effect everyone because corporations will cut jobs, benefits, or pass the taxes onto consumers meaning the cost of living will go up. A handful of Obama supporters were explaining how 95% of people making 200,000 (this is a falling number by the way, it started at 250K, now is at 200K, Biden said 150K, and yesterday Bill Richardson said 125K I believe) or less per year were promised a tax cut.

The argument was brief but intense. The Obama side was grounded in their promises while the CPAs were grounded in reality and history.

Personally I want everyone to be wealthy and no one to be taxed at a higher rate. I want the standard of living to be raised for everyone and not the wealthy to be punished with a higher tax rate because of success. I want everyone to have the opportunity to be just as successful but I know realistically the results won't be the same for everyone. The opportunity should be the same for everyone though.