Kids these days!

Kids these days have very weak ability to convey the English language in its written form. They need to know it is NOT ok to go into the real world and write correspondence in "text message" style. DUNWIM? (That's text message speak for "Do U No What I Mn?"). Sorry kids but that isn't going to cut it in the real world! Pull your eyeballs out of your Crackberrys, your PSPs, and your XBoxes....and, oh, gee, I don't know...APPLY YOURSELVES.

The real world doesn't give out trophies for 6th place. Or for typos.

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Twitter. Twitter bugs me. I think it's dumb.

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In Illinois they are cutting funding for a lot of special needs programs. If I want to keep the same level of services for my autistic son then I suddenly am going to have to start footing almost all of the bill myself. Gee great timing, as if we're all rolling in dough these days.

Good luck, everybody. We're gonna need it.

(Idea: how about we cut some real pork out of the government? Such as politician junkets to places like the Galapagos Islands and Pelosi's 8 day trip to Italy while "en route" to her 1-day stop in Afghanistan)

Galapagos story:
online.wsj.com/article/SB124650399438184235.html

Pelosi to Italy:
www.lasvegassun.com/news/2009/feb/22/pelosis-trip-italy-sets-bad-example/

Pelosi getting smack-downed by the Pope while in Italy:
thehill.com/leading-the-news/pope-lectures-pelosi-on-abortion-stance-2009-02-18.html

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By the way:

I won't go into what I think about Obama...that isn't my point.

But have you noticed who we have sitting on the bench to be backup President?

In order:
-Joe Biden: Buffoon. Period.
-Pelosi: Dear God.
-Robert Byrd: 91 year old confirmed former Ku Klux Klan member.

For that reason alone I wish Obama much health and success.

God bless America!

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Interesting article about the media usage habits of teens:

www.ft.com/cms/s/0/035e83fe-6f18-11de-9109-00144feabdc0.html?nclick_check=1

It's sort of scary:
1) They don't actually use twitter (thank God) because they realize that it requires time / effort / (and in some instances) money ... and they are smart enough to realize that it is pointless. Which it is. That's the only good news in the article.

2) They don't read newspapers because they have no time to "read lots of text". They would rather go online and see the summary or whatever.

3) Their free time is focused on movies, music concerts, and video games. OK, I guess I can't fault that too much. That's just kids being kids. I did the same stuff when I was that age. But they also say that online chat via video game consoles is becoming a better way of chatting with friends than via the phone. That part I find scary. Heaven forbid you go out on a bike ride or go to the batting cages with a friend, where you might actually have a legitimate human conversation and break a sweat. Rather than putting on some stupid headset and talking to your friends while you blast aliens in some fake digital world.

Meanwhile the Chinese are sending their kids to school 6 days a week, 12 months a year. Oh, and they're supporting our country's debt, currency, and spending habits too.

Parents, if there's one thing you can do for your kids, get them a subscription to a good newspaper and ask them to spend 10 minutes a day reading it. I recommend the Wall Street Journal. Its articles are surprisingly relevant about LOTS of different things, not just Wall Street. I've been spending 30 minutes with the WSJ every weekday for the last 20 years and I can tell you for a fact my knowledge of the world has increased IMMENSELY because I have done this.

OK, enough rambling.

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Here is the way the young 20-somethings at my workplace talk about the local nightlife:

Person 1: "Hey, have you ever been to ________?"
Person 2: "No, I heard it's amazing."
Person 1: "What about _________? Ever been there?"
Person 2: "Yes, it's totally awesome."
Person 1: "What's it like?"
Person 2: "Well, have you ever been to __________?"
Person 1: "Yeah, I like that place."
Person 2: "Yeah, well it's kind of like that…..but better."
Person 1: "Better, really?"
Person 2: "Totally."
Person 1: "Did you ever go to _______ on Saturday like you said you were gonna?"
Person 2: "Yeah, I was there all night."
Person 1: "How was it?"
Person 2: "Awesome!"
Person 1: "Really? My friend said it wasn't any good."
Person 2: "No, it's like, totally chill."
Person 1: "Sweet, I really gotta go there."

The part that really bugs me is that this conversation doesn't say a damn thing. It's all about sounding cool and hip. Which apparently I'm not, because like I said...this bugs me!!!

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Here we are on September 11th and the people I work with are like "yeah whatever". Most of them didn't even realize it. How soon we forget.

Happy Patriot Day everybody.

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Career politicians. They bug me. Regardless of party affiliation. They've proven that they're all for sale. Whether to big corporations, the tort bar, the unions, the poor, illegal immigrants and their enablers, to whoever is buying...in exchange for votes and the ability for the politician to continue building their personal political empire.

That's not the way America was supposed to work. But that's the way it does work. Instituting term limits would help, a lot. It wouldn't solve all of our problems (because the special interest groups named above would always be grooming replacements to take over for politicians who "term out" of office). But it would definitely reduce the sense of entitlement and the loss of moral compass which is so blatantly obvious in our leaders...especially in Congress.

Our governments (at all levels) have shown an inability and unwillingness to cut spending, even in the face of the worst fiscal crisis since the Great Depression. Any private enterprise which displayed such an unwillingness to adapt would have bankrupted itself out of existence by now. It's only because our government owns the printing presses (and because the Chinese have been willing, so far, to buy our national debt in the form of government bonds) that we've been able to perpetuate this charade.

I want government which provides essential services, run by people who have the public's interests, not their own private interests (or the interests of those whose votes they can buy with money or favors), in mind. It is time to clean house.

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