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I’m getting tired of the recent tactic of some to hint that Obama is a Muslim. The fact of the matter is that he’s not. He’s Christian, just like most of America. But, since his middle name is Hussein, people like to insinuate that he is a Muslim. This of course plays into American’s distrust of Muslims and anyone associated with them. There are Republicans and Hillary supporters who are afraid of the momentum that Obama has built recently and they have resorted to name calling and school yard rumors. These kind of smear tactics don’t help anyone in a campaign that should be celebrated for having a woman and a black man with a legitimate shot at becoming president. When you look closely at the candidates you will find that all three are basically the same with a few differences on foreign policy and health care. It’s disappointing to me that this otherwise exciting campaign has been sullied in this way.

I found this article funny simply for the fact that there was a white man who felt the need to call himself Blaxican. Now that I think of it, I have a problem with anyone not from the planet Blaxica being called a Blaxican. I love that this guy felt the need to buy a matching toy Escalade for his full sized black model. This is one classy individual. At first I was annoyed that a guy like him could get rich and then I remembered, he stole all his money, it’s not like somebody actually paid him. At the very least we no longer have to worry about Blaxican taking his Suburban Rap to the airwaves any time soon.

Some of you may have heard, or remember, the Exxon-Valdez oil tanker spill in March 1989 near Cordova, Alaska. I was sad to hear that this area of Alaska is still feeling the effects of this spill today, almost 20 years later. Of course it should be no surprise that you can’t just scrub away the spilled oil. Ecosystems are fragile and a catastrophe of that size can change things forever. It saddens me that big companies like Exxon-Mobil can cause a problem like this, pay some money and be done, while the people living there are left to bear the effects. The same thing happened for year with GE and the Hudson River PCB contamination. I would just like to see these companies take a more active role in solving the problems they create.

Of course there had to be one guy who was pissed that Starbucks was closed for three hours the other day. I love this little exchange the best.

“I do mind that they charge me so much,” said engineer Benny Word. “I wish it were a dollar.”
“They’re going to charge that much,” his friend, limo driver Mike Ahme, said philosophically. “What are you going to do, be surprised?”

I love guys like the wise cracking limo driver. Nothing amazes these guys anymore. They have had all positive feeling sucked from them by the vacuum of life and remain forever cynical. Kind of like my associate Mr. DeFreitas.

It was only last year that the Interstate 35 bridge collapsed in Minnesota and politicians have forgotten their pledge of strengthening infrastructure. When lawmakers need to balance the budget where do they go to first? Education and Transportation. It always amazes me this whole mindset that the budget has to come out in the black. Government isn’t a business, it’s not supposed to create a profit. My biggest problem is with the priorities that politicians have. Even though almost everyone in the country owns a car we put less and less money into maintaining existing and building new roads. If you look at the Federal Budget you’ll see that transportation is only a fraction of the $3.1 Trillion estimated for the 2009 Fiscal Year. Infrastructure is consistently an afterthought in the minds of not only lawmakers but the public in general. You would think that events like the Florida blackout that saw millions lose power and the I-35 disaster would cause outrage. Instead we as a country stay interested for a week at best and quickly move on to whether or not Britney Spears needs a psychiatrist or who Pam Anderson will marry next.

Finally, something on the lighter side. Apparently an Arizona State University student has arranged an underwear run for charity. Some might argue that real collegians run nude but I guess for charity this might be seen as classless. I say this guy came up with a great way to get hot girls to take off their clothes and run through the streets, while making money on the backside. Not to mention girls love guys who are charitable. This guy is made in the shade. ASU is perennially ranked in the Top 10 of party schools and supposedly has some of the best looking women. With coeds like the ones below, you can see why.

And one more since you’ve been a great audience…

Photos courtesy of: The Situationalist, Chicago Sun-Times, wireddevils.com

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