Just Sayin

I saw a random story on Yahoo about Kim Kardashian, and her new "book" of selfies. As a member of the "Bimbo Brigade," more on that later, Sse has risen to new heights of silliness. I know it is silliness, because I have been doing it now going on 15 years. For the last 15 years when ever there was a camera around, whether it be disposable, digital, phone or Polaroid, I would pick it up and take a selfie. I would have this large toothy grin and happy look on my face. They were everywhere. I would put them on the wall paper of my fathers phone so when he opened the phone he would see me. He would be upset because he couldn't change it and had to wait until someone came along who could. It got so bad, that when my mother would hand out cameras at Thanksgiving she never gave me one. I always found them though. I did it to be a wise guy with my father, that was our relationship dynamic. He would get me into minor trouble with my mother or wife, and then side with ...

Well what do you know about that, the Baltimore Ravens as a franchise and the Bisciotti's as a family had the social and moral courage to do what the gutless National Football League would not. Fire Ray Rice for his actions. The NFL then suspended Rice "indefinitely." He should be never allowed to play football again. A steep price must b e paid by this man for his actions. I generally don't support ruining a man's livelihood if he is being punished by the law, but there are certain offenses that require serious consequences. We as a society need to punish child molesters, elder abusers, and women beaters. We can not let these crimes go un or under punished. These must be met with the loss of freedom, money and reputation. The death penalty for ones character. The loss must be tangible, and catastrophic in nature. A slap on the wrist for these crimes should no longer be tolerated by us as individuals, us as a society, or us as Americans. Maybe if we do not tolerat...

I wrote a blog on Liberals and now in all fairness I should write one about Conservatives. Like liberals, there is some issues I agree with and some I don't. First of all, I am a Christian and I don't feel the need for my politics to be dictated by my religion. I believe that the Supreme Court misinterpreted the Constitution concerning separation of Church and state. The First Amendment keeps the government out of church, but not necessarily the church out of government. As for abortion, Roe vs. Wade was decided on the right of privacy, which in the Constitution doesn't exist. I do believe that it not the governments authority to mandate what one does with their body. I believe that an abortion should be illegal after the second Trimester because at that point the baby can live outside the womb. If not then laws that protect pregnant women from violence are moot, and that can't happen. Unless there is some medical emergency and rape and incest. If a woman wants to abort...

When I was a child the greatest baseball player was Pete Rose. We all emulated him to no end from running hard around the bases, the head first slide for those of us who were brave enough or just motivated enough to do that. Pete was a winner personified. So we wanted to be like him. Then came the gambling. Banished in 1989 for life for gambling, on baseball, Rose has been all over the map with as many reasons, and excuses as Major League baseball has been with bad decisions and hypocrisy. There is no doubt that Rose bet on baseball, and the ensuing 25 years is enough punishment. Baseball in it's hypocritical wisdom has gone beyond the original crime, and taken it to a personal level that doesn't pass the smell test. A. Bartlett Giamatti, and his vindictive minion Bud Selig, the former, once the Commissioner of Baseball, and the latter the current Commissioner of baseball, have pushed their puritanical morals on Rose and judged him harshly. With all the scandals in the last ...

So Jim Irsay owner of the Indianapolis Colts gets a 6 game suspension and a $500,00 fine for several counts of misdemeanor drunk driving. It appears that he violated the personal conduct rules. The NFL say's that the owners have to be held to a higher standards than players. Where do I begin with this tripe the NFL calls a punishment. Here goes anyway. First of all, players should be held to a higher standard because they are the public face of the team and the league. I see Andrew Luck jersey's not Irsay jersey. Second and more important is I guess it is less egregious to slap your wife around in a hotel elevator than it is for a known drunk to drink and drive. While both are bad choices, wife beating is bad ands shows a lack of character. Rice gets a two game suspension for an act that is so morally and socially unacceptable as to border on evil. The punishment fits in one but not the other when both are equally bad. The NFL punishment system is a joke, and old Rog is a piss...

  I have no problem with liberals, I believe that some of their ideas have merit, and some don't. At one time I was a liberal Democrat. I voted for Carter, Dukakis, Kerry, Gore and Clinton twice. Mainly because I don't like those sons of bitches in the Bush family. I refuse to vote for one and never have and never will. It is just Liberals seem to think because I don't agree with them on every issue, that I am some hick or a Tea Party Conservative. Well I don't like some of them either. I am not a one issue voter. I vote for the person who I think will help me and the country most. Mostly what is good for the country is usually good for me. When it isn't then I vote for what is good for me. I had an Uncle in Korea, one in Vietnam, and two grandfathers in WWII, one of which was killed in action in Belgium at the Battle of the Budge. They sacrificed for my right to vote, the least I can do is appreciate and exercise those rights. So I do. They have their opinion, and ...

In the 1980's Reagan gave the rich tax breaks so they would take the money saved and hire people thus stimulating the economy. It was called Trickle Down Economics. In the 1960's Johnson perpetuated the welfare state, started by Roosevelt to help the poor. So I have been told that if the minimum wage is raised, that more poor people will not be on welfare, and they will put more money into the economy thus stimulating it. Isn't that called trickle up economics and hasn't it been tried before? Like 50 odd years ago? So am I to believe like the rich the poor will spend the money to stimulate the economy, instead of spending it on items that don't figure into the economy? Hmmm, are the poor people any different than the rich people. Just a random thought from the West End.