Back in 2001, my cousin Karl invited me to go sailing with him and his two brothers (Eric & Leo). He had a friend Mike, who owned a 60 ft. double masted sailboat that was moored down in the Florida Keys. The plan was to sail the boat from the Keys up the east coast, past New York, and out to Block Island off Cape Cod. Mike was bringing two friends and the trip would take about a month or two. We would be stopping at ports along the way to enjoy America and have some fun. Charleston, Atlantic city, were just some of the spots we wanted to check out. We knew that just north of the city of Charleston in South Carolina was the Myrtle Beach golf courses. Everyone on the trip was a golfer, so it seemed like a great idea.
Problem was that back then we did not have any cool wireless devices like the iphone, or Android, or a blackberry. If we did, we could have just punched in the URL http://www.myrtlebeachgolf.net and we would have gotten access to the internet and better yet a tee time at Myrtle Beach ! In fact by going on line, we would have saved not only time, but money as well. Websites offer Myrtle Beach golf packages that include everything a golfer or vacationer needs from tee off times to travel arrangements. Unfortunately, since we did not have access to the internet, we wasted a lot of time looking in a Charleston phone book and finding a phone booth. We also wasted money trying to connect with information on the phone. In the end we had a great time in Charleston, but never made it to the golf course.
The next time I am planning a vacation whether it’s sailing or golf, or both, I will take advantage of the internet and book my activities in advance. That way I can spend more time doing what I like best. Hanging out with friends, or in this case my three cousins. We made it all the way to Block island, safely. We encountered two storms and some other calamities, but that is a story for another blog. A hoy ! Four !

It was inevitable with the popularity of shows like “The biggest Loser”, and “Oprah”, that the networks would eventualy create a channel dedicated to this huge demographic. Fat people have been filling up TV screens for years. Shows and movies like “Fat Albert”, “Ironside”, “The Honeymooners”, “Family Guy” and a slew of other big names stars and celebrities have weighed in with appearances and heavy performances on screen. Fat people’s appetite for fame and success is big as other people, but their opportunities were limited, because the old TV analog signals limited it’s screen size to 720 pixels. That’s only enough space for one, maybe two fat people, not an entire cast. Now with digital TV being broadcast in hi-def at a pixel width of 1920 and plenty of flat panel widescreen TVs on the market, there is plenty of room for fat people on TV.
Reality TV has dominated the networks and now really fat TV will. Fat versions of many of our most favorite shows, are in development. “Fat Survivor”, “The amazingly obese race”, other shows such as the UFW (Ultimate Fat Wrestling).The possibilities are endless and viewers appetite for more shows seems to be bottomless. Remember “Three’s company” starring Jack Ridder and two hot babes ?
Now they are talking about producing “Fours a crowd and then some”, about three really fat chicks and their old, fat, and cranky super, Mr Wanker. There’s even talk of making a “Miss Fat America Pageant”, or “Fat Watch” an update to “Bay Watch” only this time instead of seeing Pamela Anderson running up and down the beach we get some really fat broads in string bikinis.

Politics is a strange and facinating drama. Who would have believed that in less than two years we would be watching another historic political battle. Our first black president, Barrack Obama, who rode into office on a promise of hope and change will be battling against his arch nemesis Sarah Palin.

Obama’s image is in tatters, his promises broken, the hope and change have faded, and the voters confidence in his abilities is waning.The republican and democratic parties are both suspect. The Tea party has a great message and a strong uprising of voter anger behind it, although it’s image has been berated by the president and the liberal elite’s as racists or “Tea baggers”. Above all this, Sarah Palin has risen as a positve image and brand, despite the constant barrage and assault her character faces on a daily basis in  the main (Lame) street media. She has managed to coalesce the forces around her, the Republican party, the Conservative movement, and the Tea party. Quite brilliantly she has launched her own brand of “Mama Grizzly” that looks like the new modern face of a conservative women’s movement. This not only mobilizes a new and politicaly massive block of voters, but it can also draw in women in general as it touts feminist’s accomplishments as well. The idialogical pillar for this brand is the power of common sense. Forget the progressive egg heads from acadamia with their theories on what they think works. The future of America belongs to those who can move things forward that make sense. Sarah Palin, despite the liberal media’s attempt to portray her as an “idiot” has proven to be anything but an idiot. She is also showing that she has an extra helpful handfull of common sense intuition that taps directly into her mother genetics. Now that’s using the force. The 2010 mid-term elections will be an epic battle to see if the annointed one (Obama), can save his legacy, or whether common sense will prevail. Fixing the U.S. ecomomy and restoring America’s mojo seems to have taken a back seat to adherence to rigid ideology, bad ideas, and consolidating power.  The voters are hoping president Obama will change his ways and listen to the people and to common sense. The cool-aid drinkers will believe anything, and keep chanting “yes we can” as they vote for their messiah (again), while all the evidence and facts of the recovery say there is no recovery and the secret is out that the emperor has “no clothes on”, and yet, still they believe. Hopefully the vast majority of us will see the big picture and cast our votes to cast out the bums. History will be made as change is force on Washington by the voters, Obama’s agenda is put in check, and the country goes back to earning us a check. Sarah Palin may or may not run for president in 2012, but she has put the teeth back into the fight for liberty, and small government with representation.

Despite president Obama’s sales pitch that the worst is behind us, many Americans are buying the snake oil that the Obama administration is peddling. With the United States congress on the brink of passing a financial reform package, that no one fully understands (2000 pages), loaded with false promises, hidden costs, liabilities, that does not fix the home loan “BUBBLE” fiasco, the American public is about to have a second financial disaster dropped on them. Fanny Mae and Freddy Mac the government run and secured financial institutions that are broke and responsible for driving the economic car into the ditch, are primarily run by the progressives, liberals and people known as democrats. Under their direction, the two institutions pushed for,  and backed risky home loans to people who could not afford them. A secondary result of their interference in the free market, was the out of control escalation of home values due to speculators who could sell houses to unwitting dupes. All those bad loans were packaged together and hidden on Wall street, while political hacks, like Barney Frank told us there was no problem. These same people, like senator Chris Dodd, are the ones who have created the new financial reform package that ignores the cause of the debacle, liberals and president Obama. Now the cycle is set to repeat with the administration pushing educational loans (college) through both Fannie Mae and Freddy Mac. The loans are given out to pretty much anybody, regardless of their ability to pay the loan back. Even with good intentions, the Americans trying to better themselves by getting an education, will be graduating into an economy that has no jobs to pay them ! It’s already happening, and it’s only going to get worse. Right now with the current U.S. national debt rising to 14 billion, and our government spending money like there is no tomorrow, the debt per citizen is projected at about 50K. The average 4 year college loan is 50K. Many college loans are even bigger going to 200K and more. The jobs to employ these people coming out of college, do not exist. To make the situation even worse is, the president is an academic egg head, who has never earned a buck in the free market, and his liberal elite buddies in the white house are all from the same backgrounds of academia. It is a known fact that the educational system is laden with huge costs for classes and books to pay for outrageous salaries and benefit packages of compensation for the egg head professors who teach “fantasy economics” rather than real economics as Mr Melon said. Now with the government institutions of FM & FM take over of educational financing and pushing as many loans as possible with false promises, it’s like deja vue all over again.Owning a home sounds good, and so does a college education. However, there is a right way and a wrong way to get where you want to go. The government messing with the free markets is not the right way.

President Obama has been telling us that the rebuplicans are the ones who drove the economy into the ditch and that why would we give them back the keys ? What he is not telling us is that he doesn’t need the keys, because he and all his liberal buddies, like Pelosi and Reid are all pushing the economy down a dirt road off the right path toward a cliff that they are committed to going over. To them, it’s only money “YOUR MONEY”, and even if your broke and owing money you can’t pay on your bills, your mortgage, your college loan, etc…you can still always pay more taxes to help fix the problems they create. It’s time to join our president in the blame game and to lay “THE BLAME” for the current mess and the disaster that is on the horizon on the president. This is Obama’s fault, this is the ObamaCon, this is Obamanomics in action, this is the snake oil. Wake up America before it’s too late.