Unlike Chris Matthews, I don’t get a tingle up my leg over some socialist flatlander rabble-rouser.

I do, however, feel the rumble everytime I drive around the area this past week.

Streets have been blocked off, parties are going on all over the place, bars are filled up…well that’s nothing new around these parts, but now they’re filled with Harley’s.

If you wanted a cross section of America, this week in Milwaukee would give you a great sizeable chunk from which to view it from. All on Harley’s.

If someone at work blurts out something about politics or how much want Senator Obama to win or how much they hate George W. Bush or they regurgitate some meme that Sarah Palin isn’t experienced, just take a deep breath and ask them the following questions:

• What is the Chosen One’s philosophy or What does he believe? Usually, the person will murmur for a bit or even throw their hands up in disgust since…well, they really can’t pin him down. If you happen to work with women, you can start to shed light on the way he treated Hillary during the Primaries. Women don’t seem to like when men pick on women, even in politics.
• What’s he done in the Senate for the past 4 years besides run for President the last two? He says he opposed the Iraq War, but he was not a U.S. Senator back in 2003. But what else has he done?
• What a bill has he championed or brought the Senate floor? Does he have McCain/Feingold to stand on (even though it wouldn’t be the greatest thing to boast about these days)? Did he offer up a middle-class tax-cut for those he truly cares about?
• What did he do in the Illinois Senate? His time in Chicago will probably start to bubble up from here on in.
• Do you know what sort of people he’s surrounded himself with? Everyone probably knows about Rev. Wright, but like his grandmother, he was thrown under the bus. Bring up Bill Ayers and you’ll get the standard “Who?” and there’s where you can throw out every other cretin Barack has in his closet that he doesn’t want anyone to know about.

Anyone who buys into the argument that Barack Obama is some poster child for change and hope probably will make excuses from now until the November elections. Don’t worry about them, try to get the people who may not know enough about the man and once they hear more about him, won’t worry about his skin color but will worry about what he wants to do with this country.

And by the way, more qualified than your Presidential Candidate.

If the GOP wanted to get back on track with donations, do they really think Lieberman would help in that arena. I mean seriously, I’m already thinking of sending some money now.

As far as taking on corruption, Palin I think has a track record Obama can’t even touch.

The Enigma of Socialism. In theory, it sounds good, but in the end you need other people to continue to work to provide the enormous capital needed to prop it up. Politicians may have desires to hatch such a scheme on the American public, but this country still has no desire to emulate Europe.

The Enigma of the Food Nazis. In theory, people have no need to eat junk food or food with high fat content, but we do eat it and we like it. The Food Nazis seem to have it in their DNA that they’re the ones who should decide what people should and should not eat. Yet again, people still do not wish to be force fed dietary guidelines from utopiast vegetarians who look like mopey slackers and have that precious “I’m better than you” attitude.

The Enigma of Money. We need it and it works. For some, me included, we’ve had instances where we’re in over our heads with it (or lack there of it). Some use it as a status symbol. Some need a lot of it, others get by just fine with what they got. Just like with socialism, there are those who wish to take what money from people who have earned it and give it to those who have not. Whether or not you hate it, money is a vital tool that can be used for good…and evil.

…and get your ACORNs outta here.

Wisconsin is known these days as more of a “purple” state. The problem is that every major Presidential election, there are troubling instances that make it look like a banana republic.

You had a New Yorker coming to Milwaukee, trying to bribe the homeless into voting for a particular candidate in 2000.

Then there was mischievous scamps who slashed the tires of vans being used to transport people to the voting booths in 2004.

You have instances of poll workers (which you’d think shouldn’t be hardcore partisan) telling people who to vote for, college students taking more than one ballot at a time and one student bragging he voted more than once. Now these instances may or may not be true, especially the last one, but the pattern seems to be there.

Add to the fact that this state doesn’t require an ID to vote and you’ve already got problems once again waiting to happen come this November.

So now you’ve got ACORN, who if the internet is correct, is nothing more than an organization just trying to help people. Well, if that’s the case, why the voter registration fraud? Add to the fact that over 20% newly registered voters aren’t up to snuff.

I swear, the crypto-sporidium outbreak years ago is still floating around in some politician’s heads when they can’t even admit it’s a good idea to require people to show an ID before they vote.

Hey listen up squirt, you ought to get your parents in on the other American past time, being litigious douchebags.

Probably would be nice to enjoy your childhood, too bad the adults around you don’t see it that way.

These days in America, it’s hard to keep one’s cool. So very hard. One minute you’re taking peaceful stroll, the next minute someone is shouting you down at the top of their lungs with their girth sloshing all about.

As Good Americans, we all recognize that the freedom to speak one’s mind is paramount to our nation. But of course at some point, just yelling and shouting to get your point across doesn’t make it more so, it kind of makes you look like an ass.

Good Americans know that shouting down detractors and throwing out unsubstantiated nonsensical rantings is the new way in which we discuss the issues.

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Some are interesting, some are weird and some are informative.

The weird:

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The Interesting and Informative even:

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Just old Informative:

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Have you ever run into people who can’t say or do anything positive? Maybe it’s people at work or someone you know who decries everything in the world going on around them. They’re the pessimistic/glass half-empty crowd who have to tell you what’s wrong with the world. And of course, if you don’t agree with them, you’re part of the problem too.

Now unlike these people, I wake up everyday realizing how many mistakes I’ve made in my life, but I still get up and go to work like everyone else and I generally feel like I’m in a good mood. I think the thing that sets people apart are their attitudes.

For me, it’s giving thanks that I live in a such a country like ours. One in which if I want, I can bask in everything it has to offer a person. If I choose to live in a state that all four seasons like Wisconsin, I choose that. If I’d like have sun year round, I can move out west. If I don’t like the politicians running for office, I simply don’t have to vote for them. If there are things about myself I don’t like, I can go about and change them and not fill out some form or wait for some bureaucrat to give me permission. I can make a million dollars a year if I set my brain to it or I can continue to do what I do now and still not feel like I’m downtrodden.

But then there are pessimists. The negative ne’er-do-wells who have in their daily planner in life to do nothing but bitch and whine and complain and will let you know that everything sucks in the world. According to them.

While you may be the type of person who doesn’t go through life like that, these people bask in the filthy tepid blackpools of despair. Why, you don’t think the economy is crashing? Well, you’re just some rich person who doesn’t know what’s happening in the world (even though you probably make the same as them). You don’t think every single customer service rep has it in for you? Why, you’re just fool who doesn’t know what’s what and can’t comprehend the true nature pf injustice and cruelty in the world when you try to return a skirt at Target or Wal-Mart.

Strangely enough though, the same people who go to Wal-Mart are in bed with those who hate Wal-Mart. The very same people who argue big box stores are evil, their brothers-in-arms probably are there every Sunday, stocking up on groceries or things for their families.

Now of course, not everything goes according to plan. Hell, you’re talking to a guy who wanted to play professional football, be a director and even be real estate agent. I planned for those things in my life, but life doesn’t always follow your own rules. That’s why I think being optimistic has its advantages. You don’t have to go through life care-free and yippy-skippy, ignoring everything going on around you and just keeping up that optimistic smile you might have, but you don’t have to go along with everyone else these days and beat the dead horse of negativity.

Everything is related. I want to lose weight and I can go down two paths. One, keeps me in the comfort zone of not doing anything. Keep shoveling food down my gullet and not doing the painful exercise, but hope one day I pick things up metabolically speaking of course. The other is trying to curb the food intake, increase the exercise and keep it going. Pessimism creeps in when you feel like you’re never going to each that point where your flabby gut will never go away. But when you make that turn, that optimistic side roars back you think things will get better.

And they always will be.

If you live a sedentary life, calorie restricting helps. But if you deviate slightly, those calories stay on. With a little exercise, that calorie restricting doesn’t have to be painful.

I know people may not or want to cut down their intake or increase their activity, but for those of us who wish to be rid of their girth/flab/fat/blobbiness…I’m choosing to increase my activity.

More than anything else, the ability to eat what I want and not be scolded by those who wish to have me eat the same food that turns them into mindless finger-waggers. If you really wish to become one of the endless parade of food Nazis who have to foist your devilish brand of veganism or some other palate numbing diet that turns people pale, be my guest. I for one don’t wish to resign myself to a fate of being complicit in turning my life into one of a food zombie who is told to eat twigs, nuts and dandelions and act like it’s a wonderful thing. What utter vomit-inducing garbage.

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