This is my first Blogpost here on WordPress.  Happy to be here.  A few things to tell before I get to the Meat and Potatoes of this post.  I have been blogging for a Little over a year at yahoo! 360 and it was nice, but they are closing it down soon, changing to something called Yahoo Mash.  The Thing That convinced me to change was an article On  some website titled, Yahoo 360 To close, Nobody Notices, something Like that.  At that point I just said, I want people to read My stuff, screw this, I am outta here.    Style Points: I wrote about My running and working out, if you can call it working out, Politics and Personal observations on whatever catches my eye, and follow that Up with a Quote or two, when i was on 360, and at least initially I will continue with that format.  I will give you, the reader meanings for the Acronyms and other crap I think you need when I get to it.  Here is an example: This is an excerpt from my 360 blog from Yesterday 10/27/07

5.45 miles in 41:37.02 7:38.16 m/m pace I felt like i was pushing today, but one look at my time shows that I just didn’t have it today. I was a little tired, and I didn’t stretch alot prior to running, but I just didn’t have it, only way i can say it. Hammies were tight, but that’s about the only problem i had, and i’ve run faster with tight Hamstrings before. Good run despite all my whining, It was rainy and breezy and a little too warm for my Liking (68 degrees) but it was a pretty good day for a run. Workout was a little on the light side. 12 minutes of light weighted punch/DKB’s, 12 minutes of weighted Punch/DKB’s, 12 minutes of Kick drills, and a few minutes of gutwork. The sweat was nice, even if it took a lot of effort for less than the usual results.

Idiot alert: Democrat Tom Lantos, a representative from california, got nasty with a group of Dutch lawmakers who were visitng The Guantanamo Bay prison this week. The representative, a Holocaust survivor himself, said the following: “You have to help us, because if it was not for us you would now be a province of Nazi Germany” and also “Europe was not as outraged by Auschwitz as by Guantanamo Bay.” This man is the Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs committee! Holy Shit! You wanna talk about diplomacy gone horribly wrong? This is Insane! How do you make those statements and get away with it? If W. said that, they’d Hang his ass out to dry, and I think the same should happen here. I don’t want gitmo closed, and I’m sure enemy combatants there get better treatment then any of the americans and other who have been beheaded by al-Qaida, but You cannot have a loose cannon spouting stupidity like that and nothing being done about it. I am hoping at the very least he is brought before some committee somewhere to explain himself in a public way. I don’t like stupid and abusive republicans OR democrats. That was wrong Tom. Apologize. Now.

That’s it for me. G’night.

Today’s Nuggets: As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them. John F. Kennedy

One of the annoying things about believing in free will and individual responsibility is the difficulty of finding somebody to blame your problems on. And when you do find somebody, it’s remarkable how often his picture turns up on your driver’s license. P.J. O’Rourke

Note: dkb + Deep knee bend

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