Coming Up On Hardly Relevant

I have to go to work to cover the shuttle launch, but here are the things I plan on discussing soon!

1. The U.S. NOT signing the cluster bomb ban. Big friggin surprise, I called this when they announced the ban earlier this week. The U.S. is notorious for holding out on stuff like this.

2. This e-mail that has been making it's internet rounds about how Muslim males between the age of 17-40 deserve to be racially profiled because they ALL do terrible things and as such, Obama is the anti-Crist (even though he isn't Muslim, this e-mail will disagree). Stay tuned for a list of awful things white males age 17-40 have done, I bet I can make a longer one!

I have no good headline, insert comment about McCain

Busy memorial day weekend with guests in town, so now I will try to do some catching up.

I'll start with this fairly controversial story. McCain Does Tricky Dance With Unpopular Bush.

Although I do not even specifically disagree with the theme of the article and the conclusions it draws (on a personal level), I think the headline, and some of the assumptions made in the article cross a line. To me this is not a news article, it is opinion, even a valid one, but one not appropriate for the CNN front page. This could have worked as an i-Report, a politics blog, or, (as I'm sure it already has been) a subject for discussion on CNN. I just don't think that McCain doing a "tricky dance" is newsworthy, or appropriate.

On the same subject, CNN ran a special report Sunday evening called The First Patient, which centered around the medical care of the president, specifically if he is ill or injured and what goes on behind closed doors etc. This special was no doubt intended to provoke subconscious consideration of a certain presidential candidates age and potential poor health.

I think we will only see more and more McCain bashing now that Obama has all but locked up the Democratic nomination. The media will soon loose the drama that is Obama vs. Hillary: Loosing the 2008 Election for the Dems One Comment At a Time. With that Springer episode out of syndication, the new target will surely be McCain.

Shocker of the day, people will try to scam you!

So we have all seen those LifeLock commercials where the CEO plasters his social security number everywhere and dares you to steal his identity, because his product is so darn fabulous. Well, I am sure you will all be very surprised by this, his identity was stolen!

The article is a bit cumbersome, but the gist is that people are upset that the product isn't foolproof, which makes me wonder who is really more stupid. Is it the company for thinking they could endlessly fool morons into paying $10 a month for something they could do themselves for free, and ultimately does not even perform as promised, or is it the morons who pay $10 a month expecting some sort of identity theft protection miracle.

I swear I am back

Ok, between my laptop being broken and the entire coast of my viewing area being on fire last week, my much ballyhooed return was delayed; but I promise to regularly blog starting now!

On a random tangent, I was watching CNN yesterday in the ATL airport and one of their anchors really pissed me off. I don't know her name, but she was borderline giddy when she announced that gas prices had reached yet another record high. Seriously? I don't expect anchors to be totally stone-faced all the time, but seriously, she seemed ecstatic over the plight of the American middle class, it rubbed me the wrong way.

More to come

I was getting geared up for another excellent post but I got called into work :(.

I'll make a post when I get home, but check out the blog I started today about baking! You know you want to.

Mistakes And Cakes.

Baking, politics and news, a magical combination.

Screw NC and Indiana, Lets Go To Guam

Ok I am officially a terrible blogger. I blame computer issues and my newfound hobby of baking (If you were wondering, no matter how long you spend perfectly crafting and painting gum paste limes for your margarita cupcakes, they will still melt in the fridge).

Anyway, there has been a lot going on lately. Between the guy that kidnapped his daughter and had seven kids/grandkids, the dolphin dying at Discovery Cove, the DC madam dying and the Myanmar Cyclone (which is estimated to have killed 10,000 people), a lot of interesting things have been going on in the news lately.

My favorite recent news story was the Guam Caucus on Saturday, which wasn't even really a caucus, but that didn't stop Obama from gaining another victory, by a margin of eight votes. No no, not 8,000, or 800, or even 80, but eight.

Truly a hard fought battle. And by hard fought, I mean both candidates aired an inordinate amount of ads in Guam leading up to the "caucus," only for things to basically stay the same. Guam only gets 8 representatives, each candidate received four, and each candidate only gets one half of a vote. So each candidate got 2 more delegates, campaign dollars well spent.

Guam also has 5 superdelegates, which seems like a lot for a country that I didn't even know got to vote for the nominees and does not vote in the presidential election in November.