Ok friends, I need to give this blog an official yet cool and catchy name. I’m looking for suggestions, so if you have any, please post a comment on this post and give me your suggestions. If none of the suggestions are acceptable, it will continue to just be a self-titled blog.
So, what would you name this blog, and why?
I was a failure at my Black Friday shopping this year. It has become a tradition that my father-in-law and I go to the local Sears at 4:00am when they open to take advantage of their tool sales. We’ve done this for a few years now and always find some great tools that we “need.”
This morning the alarm didn’t go off on my iPhone. I even double checked it at 12:30am and everything was set. At 7:00am the alarm was still set for 3:15am, yet it never went off! My father-in-law just assumed I decided not to go and went without me. I woke up sad and depressed because my annual Sears shopping spree was lost due to the stupid whims of an iPhone 3G.
On the other hand, my would-be shopping buddy picked up a 19.2 volt Craftsman Hand Vac that I was looking for, I got to sleep, and I didn’t get pepper-sprayed. Happy Holiday’s everyone!
Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect.
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Today is Thanksgiving Day! The day where you gather with your friends and family, and in the spirit of the season you sit down together to watch “A Very Gaga Thanksgiving.” Just kidding…
I always love Thanksgiving. When I was a kid our whole extended family would gather together at my grandparents house…no kidding there were like 25-30 of us in by grandparents very average sized house. The kids would run through the woods and play, the men would go hunting, everyone would eat way more than they should, and then the Dallas Cowboys would take main stage and we’d all gather around to watch them beat everyone they played…well almost.
Now that I’m married, my wife and I spend Thanksgiving with her family and have done so consistently since we were just dating. I am truly thankful for all my family and friends, and all the years I’ve been able to enjoy this wonderful holiday. I love my new Thanksgiving tradition and family we get to see every year during this time, but I still long for the days when I was a kid in the back yard pretending to be Troy Aikman or Jason Garrett and throwing the football. Today I’ll still be pretending to be Troy Aikman and Jason Garrett by adding my own color commentary and coaching from the couch as we watch the Dallas Cowboys take on the Miami Dolphins. As confident as I am that they will win, I seem to remember a time when this didn’t go so well…
More on the Cowboys later. For now, here’s hoping you enjoy a wonderful Thanksgiving holiday with your family and friends!
What’s your favorite Thanksgiving Day memory?
Welcome to my blog! I’m not sure quite what this will turn into over time, nor what I’ll write about from day-to-day. As you can tell from the description, this blog has a pretty broad scope when it comes to topics. We’ll touch on a little of everything, but today we’re starting with politics.
Our federal government is spending WAY more money than it brings in each and every year for the past several years. This is referred to by political insiders as the “national deficit.” That’s just a nice way of saying “the drunken national spending binge.” The federal government this year will take in $2.17 trillion and will spend $3.81 trillion. That means that this year alone your government officials in Washington D.C. will overspend by $1.63 trillion. OVERSPEND BY $1.63 TRILLION!!! The absurdity of this should shock every American and cause us to drastically rethink the choices we have made to re-elect the same old people to Washington. But that’s not all…
Today the “Debt Super Committee” failed in its ability to reduce the federal spending by $1.2 trillion over 10 years which has automatically triggered some so-called “cuts” to our federal spending. Let’s look at this in a way that most politicians would rather us not. Each year the federal spending automatically increases. So if our government did absolutely nothing, spending would still increase next year by default. And remember, we’re already $1.63 trillion upside down this year alone! Next year that spending will increase again. But Matt…what about all these automatic deep cuts that went into effect? It’s another lie coming out of Washington. GO FIGURE!
The “deep cuts” that automatically went into effect are simply decreasing the amount of spending increases that will occur over the next several years. Let’s use the federal defense budget for example. Originally the defense budget would have increased by 23%. Now with the “deep cuts” that went into effect, the federal defense budget will only increase by 16%. In other words, everyone in the government is getting more money next year, just not as much more money as they thought they were going to get, and this bends everyone out of shape!
Our government is overspending by more and more each year and our politicians, Democrat and Republican, can’t even figure out a way to not spend more than they bring in? Yes cutting our gross overspending will hurt a little. It would hurt if you had to cut your personal spending the same way, but if you or I didn’t stop our spending we’d go bankrupt in a couple of years and lose everything we have and hold dear. I just wonder what will happen to our government…
Thanks for taking the time to read by first post! For the next post, sports. I guess you’ll just have to come back for that one.
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