Shame on Kentucky

21% of the Democrats in Kentucky admitted that race played a part on their decision to vote for Hillary Clinton. I find that statistic shameful. If Clinton had a shred of honor about her she would denounce such a statistic and tell those 21% "Thanks but no thanks" for your vote. To vote or not to vote for someone based on the color of their skin is baloney. I'll close by reminding Kentucky that it is 2008 not the 1860's. Time to get with the program.

Campaining for Mom...but don't ask questions...

This morning on the news I saw a story about the Clinton daughter and how she is on the campaing trail for her mom, but she won't let the news media ask her questions. WHAT!?!? It would seem to me that the media should be attacking the absurdity of an individual who CHOOSES to put themself in the spotlight by campaining for Mom and yet won't talk to reporters. Unfortunately, they aren't. Favoritism?? Perhaps, but I am not sure. They have been doing a good job on reporting Hilary's Fairy Tale about landing under sniper fire and all that. So the evidence is inconclusive. What is certain is that the daughter even went so far as to tell a youngin' (and by that I mean younger than High School) that she wouldn't talk to him because he worked for the school newspaper.

Isn't anyone else sick of this typically Clintonesque type of behavior? I suppose that all depends on what your definition of "is" is.

First Hike of the Season

Elise Holmes nature park is one of those places that can make you think that you are out in the middle of nowhere. It is close and yesterday my darlin' and I were the only ones out on the trail. It is a small but quaint place. After the winter hiking hibernation it is just the place to stretch your legs. If you live in the area and haven't been there well, that is just your loss.

EEK! It's the World.....I'm afraid.

So today I am wondering “what are Christians afraid of?” The reason I wonder this is that I am reading “They like Jesus, but not the Church” and in it the author describes Christians retreating into “the bubble”. Honestly, for a while I thought it was just my denomination. Basically, this event occurs when an individual or group of individuals retreat from the world into their own little enclave of people who supposedly share the same religious beliefs. Imagine, if you will, a family where the children (in addition to attending church programs) attend church schools never rubbing shoulders with children who aren’t Christian (even to the extent that the denomination has their own version of the Boy Scouts). These children then grow up to attend Christian colleges and then after graduation when they enter the workforce perhaps they encounter other denominations and even nonbelievers. Many seek denominational employment.

Matthew 5:15-16 states very clearly that this should not be so. Christians are commanded to let our light shine before the world and not hide it under a basket. So why are our children hidden in Christian schools while the adults flee into the sanctuary of the Christian “bubble”. What is it that we are afraid of that keeps us from following Jesus’ command?

Messin' with Nigerian Hoodlums

About two weeks ago I got the millionth peace of "someone died in Nigeria and we can make you rich" SPAM. Now I normally delete these things with glee, but just recently I had been reading on the 'net about an individual who decided to waste the scammers time. Thinking that this was a good idea I decided to do likewise, so I sent them an email in reply. In the reply I fed them all kinds of things that they wanted to hear (except account info, of course). I alluded to the fact that I knew the nephew of the "deceased" and generally played along with their game. Until Wednesday when I finally got the email that outlined how I was supposed to get my "inheritance".

I had two options 1. To fly to Nigeria and claim it or 2. Send them $4500 (& my bank info). So for the last three days we have been arguing because I told them I was coming to Nigeria. I even looked up Delta's flight info and made up a phony itinerary. I will be catching a flight out of Atlanta Monday night and arriving in Lagos, Nigeria on Tuesday morning(NOT). You should have seen them whining trying to convince me not to come.

Needless to say I will continue to feed them bogus information and generally waste their time. For now I am messing with the scammers.....

Inferior products at Target

Buyers Beware! From the "you get what you pay for category": this summer I purchased a chair from Target. It was one of those $150 put it together ones from their Mission collection. So I have this thing like 6 months and one night I go to sit down in it and I hear a loud "crack". Upon inspection I discover that one of the wooden supports that hold the seat cushion up has broken rendering the chair useless (except for as an oversized paperweight perhaps). Now before you all start making weight jokes at my expense let me tell you that I clock in at right around 200 lbs so it shouldn't be all that hard for a store with the resources that Target has to find a manufacturer to design and make a chair that will handle my weight. Chalking it up to the "luck of the draw" I proceed to repair the chair and continue in enjoying it.

That is until yesterday morning when a second wooden support snapped. OK, one support is bad luck, two means that the chair is a piece of junk. Naturally I inform Target of their Chair of Inferior Worksmanship as I am now calling it. To which I get a "so sorry, tough luck Charlie" form letter back. Their customer service was neither quite frankly.

The moral of this story: Don't by stuff at Target. Its inferior and they don't care!!!

Thanks for listening.

I watched time stand still...

OK, time for a sports rant today. Last night I watched the Tennessee/Rutgers game and was appalled by the officials. For those of you who aren’t aware, Rutgers was ahead, the clock was winding down…and suddenly as if by magic it stops with .2 seconds left on it. Play continues and yet the clock never ticked down. Well, after an eternity went by Rutgers fouls Tennessee sending them to the free throw line where they sink two baskets to win the game. Rutgers gets the ball back but can’t do anything with it (of course its .2 seconds).

Now please don’t think that this post is a rant because I am a Rutgers fan. Whether you wear scarlet or that awful orange it isn’t a matter of opinion but one of counting. When a clock pauses it becomes obvious, when a clock measuring seconds or portions thereof it is really obvious. In fact this was such an obvious blunder that the refs refused to speak to the media about it after the game.

Once again in college sports (or even sports in general) there is no accountability. Think about it…if you or I made a horrible blunder at work we get reprimanded or even fired. What happens in sports when the refs make a blunder?? Nothing. If the NCAA had a shred of integrity about them they would institute some sort of accountability system so that horrible refs (like the ones who worked last night) would be accountable for their mistakes. After all we are.