Ok I am going to try a different format with my blog I am going to break it down into separate categories so those people that don't care about sports can easily just skip that or for those people who just wanna know what going on in my life can just read that. I really want people to express their opinions on the issues that I bring up so feel free to disagree with me, I would rather you disagree with me and tell me why you disagree then to tell me you agree with me. Of course it goes without saying that if you disagree with me you are an idiot.

CURRENT EVENTS

So Barack Obama has been very clear that there is still only ONE President of the United States, but I think people forgot to tell him that ONE President is still George W. Bush, but that's ok I am actually excited for January 20th when Barack Obama is officially our President.

The biggest thing is Barack Obama has done since becoming President Elect is appointing Rahm Emanuel to be his chief of staff. Emanuel worked with Clinton. Emanuel was huge in trying to get universal healthcare during Clinton's administration that's obviously why Obama pick Emanuel was because of his knowledge in healthcare. I don't care if you get Tony Blair to help you with Obama's idea of universal healthcare. There is just no way free healthcare is going to happen in the United States of America so if that's the reason you picked Emanuel it was a waste of chief of staff and plus the guy FAILED in getting universal healthcare in the US so obviously his track record isn't very good.


I don't like free healthcare for several reasons. Doctors wouldn't make nearly as much money as they do now and that would kill our economy. Since they won't be making a nice six figure salaries they will either start up a private practice which is way more expensive than public healthcare or quit and nobody is going to go to school for eight years to be a doctor so the quality of healthcare will go way down.I do not like Rahm Emanuel as his chief of staff mainly because I am not supportive of free healthcare.


Lets keep a score of things that I don't like about Obama and things that I do like about Obama.

Obama: -1(not off to a good start)

I don't like free healthcare for several reasons. Doctors wouldn't make nearly as much money as they do now and that would kill our economy. Since they won't be making a nice six figure salaries they will either start up a private practice which is way more expensive than public healthcare or quit and nobody is going to go to school for eight years to be a doctor so the quality of healthcare will go way down.

Obama will have an immediate impact once he finally gets into the White House. There are a lot of changes that he will probably do immediately. Things like free healthcare, abortion rights and gay marriage needs to go through congress and it can take forever but he will use executive powers to immediately reverse George Bush's policies on stem cell research and oil exploration in national parks. He will use executive powers to reverse Bush's policies on stem cell research and drilling more oil in America.

Ok so lets talk about both of these issues. First stem cell research:


Obama has supported stem cell research to find cures for things like Alzheimer's, Parkinson disease, cancer, spinal cord injuries, Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis and muscle damage but in order to do this research it involves destroying a human embryo. The controversy here is that these human embryos are humans and we are for lack of a better word killing people. It goes along the same line of abortion and the same question needs to be answered, "When does life begin?" I personally do not think that life begins until it becomes a fetus which generally takes eight weeks once the little soldiers implants itself. So I do not think that the destruction of a human embryo is destroying life and believe me I am against abortion but I do not think that this is the same thing plus not all stem cell research requires the destruction of a human embryo adult stem cell lines can be made to create embryonic-like stem cell lines using a single-cell biops and get the same results so maybe to avoid all the pro-life fanatics Obama needs to focus purely on that but if he doesn't I still only see good things that can result from stem cell research.

So one point for Obama.
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Drilling in America:


The federal Bureau of Land Management has said that there is about 360,000 acres of public land in Utah that can be drilled for oil and gas and that's only what they allowing us to drill on there could be a ton more. This energy plan is a lot better than pumping up our tires with air. I know he wants to drill in National Parks and a lot of these park goers are going to throw a fit about that but If we had our own oil and didn't have to pay oil in the middle east it would lower gas prices and help our economy out a ton. I just hope Green Peace doesn't screw this one over for us.

Another point for Obama





Ok so I read this story and I was pretty surprised and had a hard time not finding a little humorous.


Holocaust survivors said Monday they are through trying to negotiate with the Mormon church over posthumous baptisms of Jews killed in Nazi concentration camps, saying the church has repeatedly violated a 13-year-old agreement barring the practice…..

“Baptism of a Jewish Holocaust victim and then merely removing that name from the database is just not acceptable,” said Michel, whose parents died at Auschwitz. He spoke on the 70th anniversary of Kristallnacht, the Nazi-incited riots against Jews.

“We ask you to respect us and our Judaism just as we respect your religion,” Michel said in a statement released ahead of the news conference. “We ask you to leave our six million Jews, all victims of the Holocaust, alone, they suffered enough.”


Geez we are making a lot of enemies first the gays are mad at us for pushing the banning of gay marriage and now the Jews are mad at us for baptizing all the dead holocaust victims. Atleast Obama wont he popular vote in Utah so all the Black gotta forgive us for the whole not givin black people the priesthood. I don't really wanna get into a discussion if baptizing people of other churches is right or not, because I am still doing the temple work for John Stewart as soon as he kicks the can, but I wanna understand the Jews point of view. So if I am Jew I view the LDS church as just a crazy gay-hating cult and why would I care what they are claiming to do to my fellow jews.
ENTERTAINMENT


So I am going to Colorado for Thanksgiving. I love road trips and the reason I love them is I love listening to music and I just never can justify just sitting there listening to music considering all the time I waste watching sports and playing video games, so whenever I am in my car I just can kick back and listen to music. Sheena always complains about how all I listen to is punk rock and never the classic rock of the 70's and 80's that she loves so on this trip I am really going to try and be a good husband and listen to her music for the WHOLE TRIP. Sheena is going to end up driving to Colorado but I am taking on the sacred responsibility of being the Car DJ. I am in charge of supplying us with some sweet tunes to listen to and since my ipod was stolen we are going old school and I burn CD's. I want to take a voyage through the history of rock. Start with 60's bands like The Beatles, Bon Jovi and The Rolling Stone and then 70's with Led Zepplin, Van Halen, Jimi Hendrix and 80's bands with Def Leppard, Aerosmith and AC/DC and conclude with Nirvana and Audioslave. Through the tour of Rock I want to listen to some Black Sabbath, Queen, Styx and Foreigner. I hope Sheena is ready for Travis' salute to Rock. By the way I know there are some Something Corporate fans reading my blog and I would love to hear what you think about their latest album I listened to it for the first time yesterday and was very impressed.

SPORTS

Today at 7:05 I will be attending ISU's first game of the Men's Basketball season against Eastern Oregon. I don't know as much about college sports as I would like to but I am extremely optimistic about ISU's basketball team. They are probably not going to even win the Big Sky Conference but I think they will be competitive and they have some good teams coming to play up at the Holt and I really want to support ISU's team this year and I hope our student body can come through and give them a home crowd.

I would like to say that I know the NBA pretty well and I am fairly knowledgeable with EVERY NBA team and I can assess them pretty well but the team that I follow the most and know the most about, The Los Angeles Lakers, I always have a hard time assessing how good they truly are because I am so biased towards the Lakers because I love them so much.

I know its only been 7 games into the season but this team is one of the best teams I have seen in a long long time. I didn't watch the Celtics much last year and even Kobe admitted that they had one of the best defensives he has ever seen and they did win around 66 games but I haven't seen a team that has been this dominant since probably the 1999-2000 Lakers where Shaq was just unstoppable and won the MVP. The Mavericks had an incredible year when they went to the Finals but they were the Mavericks so there was nothing dominating about that team since Dirk Nowtizki could never scare anybody.

These Lakers are killing teams. They are the highest scoring team in the NBA and have the 2nd best defense in the league. They might have the best bench in the league, Utah's bench would give them a run for their money and the best starting five in the league manned by the best player in the league, Kobe Bryant. I just don't see how this team is going to lose. Maybe I am wrong and I need somebody to bring me down to Earth about the Lakers so please do so.

Steve sent me a text message on Thursday saying "the hawks are legit" and honestly I couldn't agree more and be happier about this fact. I jumped on the Hawks bandwagon as soon as they got Mike Bibby in a mid-season trade. They had all these high-flying dunkers and about 8 small forwards who want to run the break and I knew that as soon as they got a decent point guard they would be the funnest team to watch and trust me they are the funnest team to watch in the NBA and the fact that they are legit and a really good team is totally awesome.



MY LIFE

So in the last section I am going to talk about what is going on in my life, I generally find this the most boring part of the people's blogs since I don't really care what they did during the week I am just looking for some shout-outs in their blog(yeah I know, how self-centered) or things I can agree with or disagree with so I apologize.

I am doing better in my fantasy basketball league, which is a huge deal to me, I get so addicted to fantasy basketball and waste way too much time and care way to much about how my team is doing. Speaking of wasting time with the NBA I have got myself a pretty sweet hook-up. So if you have Directv then you can watch all NBA games on your laptop for free . I do not have NBA League Pass but Chris Maynard does. So thanks to Chris for giving me his Directv account number I can watch all the games on my laptop so I don't have to miss any of the games this season and to make it even cooler I rigged up my TV to my laptop so I can watch the games on my TV so now it's just like I have the NBA League Pass. So thanks Chris for kindness and helping me save 85 bucks but more importantly sticking it to the man.

So on Wednesday I got pulled over by a cop because my registration had been expired since March. I told the cop I didn't know, which was a lie, I have already been pulled over for it once way back in June. The douche bag gave me a ticket and its going to end up costing me 52 bucks plus the cost of my registration.