With all the reports going around about a month ago about the Associated Press taking a decidedly different approach in their reporting - namely one that mixes in judgement calls with facts, and thus limiting objectivity - it seemed like the world would have to look somewhere differently from a source of objective reporting. How about Reuters?
Maybe not so much.
Man, it must have been a slow news day in Connecticut (even though there were several other major stories). My local paper, the Journal Inquirer, decided to run a story about how a Quinnipiac University poll showed that Barack Obama is 21 points ahead in Connecticut.
No, really?
I’d make an entry, but exhaustion precludes me from doing so.
Bed time.
Seems like everyone has been going to Disney World in the past few weeks, or is going this week. What’s with that?
That’s all for tonight, because for some reason, I’m dead exhausted again. Not sure why, since I got a decent amount of sleep last night.
And I mean it. Not Happy Holidays, Merry Christmas. Don’t like me saying that because you celebrate something else, or just want to be inclusive to others? Tough. Before you yell, hear me out.
I’ve covered this issue before, but I’ll quote what I said then, in case any far-left liberals got the willies off that entry because it included the name Bill O’Reilly.
I think the whole “you must be sensitive to other religions†things as crap. When I say “Merry Christmas,†I mean it in its most secular sense, since I don’t really submit to the whole religion thing. Christmas has become secularized enough that saying that greeting shouldn’t be met with disgust, and I don’t think it does for the majority of Americans. Places like Walmart changing their greeting seem to only happen when a minority complain. On the other hand, I think the idea of a “War on Christmas†is equally as stupid. Yea, some places and people may want to push for a more “sensitive†America, but come on. I’ve already stated that I don’t think most people honestly care. Let the ACLU or whoever else bring it on - newsflash for them: bugger off.
I agree with Dave over at Blogography. I’m not religious, so when I say to you, “Merry Christmas,” I mean, “Enjoy the Christmas holiday however you live it.” That can mean going to church, opening presents, having food, or being with family. Whatever the significance of Christmas is to you, that’s how I mean it. For those who don’t celebrate the holiday, it means, “Enjoy it, because you probably have the day off like the rest of us.” In retrospect, I guess that can go under the first meaning as well, because that’s how people who don’t celebrate Christmas will probably be enjoying it, as an extra vacation day.
So, enjoy the holiday, but to the “we’ve gotta be inclusive” and the “we’ve gotta take back Christmas” sides, forget about it! It’s such a non-issue, so why waste your energy?
That said, Merry Christmas!
Speaking of parties, yesterday, my Dad and I stopped by a bar on the way home, since he had noticed my uncle was there on his way up to get me. It only dawned on me, as I was drinking my beer, that it was my first time drinking at a bar. In the U.S., anyway. I’d already been to a couple in Greece. But, I digress.
Now, as promised several days ago, I’m going to discuss how the Democrats and Republicans handle scandal. As I see it, anyway…
*P.S., like my new post image?
Ever need to pack for a trip, and you find yourself doing something else instead? Or, college students: packing for college and you get lazy?
That was me for much of yesterday and today. I’m mostly packed now, but it took two days to do what I probably could have achieved in one. I definitely want to get back to campus, but going upstairs and downstairs to round all my stuff up seems like more effort than it’s worth. Therefore, I think it would be really cool if people could use the ‘pack’ spell from Harry Potter. Just take out your trunk, pack, and everything would go into it, neatly if you got the hang of the spell.
If only, right? Well, off to pack the rest of my stuff. Or more likely, to finish the movie I was watching.
I never thought I’d say this, since my experience with Dell laptops has been more or less satisfactory, but **** Dell.
So, I wanted a Firewire card for my laptop, so I could do some video stuff. Pretty reasonable request, right? Should be easy to find, right? Well, it was easy to find, and my dad got one from one of his vendors. Not thinking, since EVERY OTHER LAPTOP MAKER USES PCMICA (PC CARD), he got that kind.
So, my Firewire card came today. I come home to put it in, and find a problem: it’s only going in halfway! I go to Dell’s site to find out why this might be, but of course their specs for my computer suck. So, I look up on Google “Dell B130 PC Card.” And what do I find to my surprise?
It’s a ******* express card slot!!!! So, my card’s not going to work with it, since the express card is different. And you know what? On a quick search on eBay, it seems they cost A LOT more than PC Cards (which tend to be an industry standard, and have been for years)! And everywhere I’ve seen still seems to be using them, mostly! Even Verizon touts their PC Card wireless internet.
I know I should have checked before buying, but neither me or my dad thought of it, since most laptops we’ve dealt with have uses PC Cards.
This…sucks. Now we gotta get an express card Firewire card, so it’ll take even longer!!!
On this eve prior to the release of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, I am going to make a prediction that will be accepted by some and rejected by others, as all literary theories are. I have no inside information (and want none, therefore I’ll be disabling commenting on this blog from tonight until I get done with the book) and there are no spoilers here. I will have assumed, however, that anyone who reads has the last five books, so don’t go complaining to me if you haven’t. See you on the flip side.
Update (Fri, 6/29): The anonymous contributor who wrote the bit about Nancy Benoit’s death seems to have spoken at last. He claims it was all a coincidence, so apparently I was wrong. But, was I? I still think that this contributor, whoever he or she is, is going to get a visit by Stamford police, once they’ve tracked the person down. At the very least, I feel they’ll get a statement from the person. If it goes further than that, we’ll find out.
I know I said I’d speak more about the Veep today, but that’ll have to wait until tomorrow.
Now, I’m not a professional wrestling watching guy. I’ve only seen it a few times, and really haven’t liked what I’ve seen. Steroid slurping guys beating each over the head, all for a pre-determined outcome just doesn’t do it for me. However, I can’t get past that many of them seem to have died because of what they do.
The latest death of a wrestler is that of Chris Benoit. This thing is a mystery like I’ve never seen. On the surface, it seems simple. Guy takes steroids, alcohol, and maybe drugs. Gets angry, or mentally diseased, kills wife and son, and then hangs himself. Simple, right? Case in the bag, right? Maybe not so much.
It’s now been revealed in the media (and anyone with a working knowledge of Wikipedia can look this up themselves), someone altered his Wikipedia article at 12:01am on Monday, 14 hours before the bodies were found. This is either the biggest the world has ever seen, or somebody else knows what’s going on. Now, I’m not going to second guess the police, but if someone did have knowledge of these deaths, the Stamford (, CT, where the posting took place from) police need to find out who it is. Even if it was just a coincidence, somebody in Stamford just found themselves in between a rock and a tight place. And no, it cannot have been Benoit who did it, as he hails from, and was found dead in, Georgia.
What with his doctor’s (who prescribed him testosterone) office being raided, and the new wife of Benoit’s wife’s ex-husband found dead 10 days before the Benoit family (though this is one that is more acceptable as a coincidence), the mystery just gets deeper. I think that we may find out someone knew something was wrong with the Benoit family. How much they knew, I can’t tell.
In all of this, I feel most sorry for the son, who has a severe medical condition, and which reportedly had his parents fighting over how to treat him. The son hardly deserved for his life to be cut short. It is a shame. Obviously, unless we find out something else, I don’t really feel sorry for Benoit.
