Crabby Blogging Lady

Well, this was a surprise coming from *another* celebrity. CNS News has a story about Garth Brooks talking about the Oval Office and how difficult the job must be for good ol’ PBO.

Wait wait wait!! Wait a second. “The system” did he say? Don’t you mean the U.S. Constitution, Mr. Brooks? Like, the entire LAW of the LAND?!

“Yeah, I think what President Obama is finding out is all that we want to do, the system kind of doesn’t allow the most powerful guy in the world to kind of do his job and I’m sure nobody’s more frustrated than him to complete those promises that he did and I think he’s trying his heart out. I love him to death and I fully support him and I just wish him well because it’s got to be hell in that office.”

No, it isn’t “all” that “we” want to do. I am kinda partial to the Constitution. We aren’t going to throw out the very founding documents that made this country great AND protect our freedoms just because you “love Obama” and Obama needs to “do his job.” It’s the Constitution that MAKES Obama president, hello!!! Some folks have heads too big to fit their ten gallon hats, I tell ya.

Folks, I’m sorry. I’ve been trying to be funny and not as crabby, but yow. Stories like this make me scairt. I need to go bury myself into seo moz again to lower my blood pressure…

How very, very insulting to citizens of the United States.

OUR president, President Barack Obama, has told people (according to Bill Kristol of the Weekly Standard and the New York Times) that “it would be so much easier to be the president of China.”

:grump: Well, Mr. Obama, GO RIGHT AHEAD. Good riddance! Don’t let the door hit you on the way out!

What an ingrate.

Unfortunately, PBO is the president of the U.S. As Kristol said, “Barack Obama ran for president of the United States. Maybe he should start behaving as one.”

… and the “war” in Afghanistan and Iraq?

Please… if this doesn’t prove that the media is biased, I don’t know what is. When their guy wasn’t in the Oval Office, ALL they did was go on and on about high gas prices and the wars. It was making me sick.

Now that gas prices are nearly $4 and the “war” rages on….

< crickets chirping >

Not a peep.

What’s going on?????? All very unfair, I tell you.

Oh well, like this is all one big surprise, as if we expect the media and etc to tell the truth…

I can no longer read the news headlines. They’ll give me an ulcer or an aneurysm. Plus, I’m too busy working like a slave trying to pay my taxes to make ends meet. :-p Although, working does have its benefits. :D I like the technology that helps me become more efficient. I am currently trying to tell my boss that I need an iPad so that I can make a Conference call when I need to. :D In case you are wondering, I’m self-employed. Hah.

Anyway… the state of things in the country make me uneasy. And the absolute silence from the media makes it worse.
:cwy:

Saw this photo today.

Now isn’t that weird? Is this a photo from Libya?

They read English on sign in Libya?

OK, well, MAYBE they do (although I doubt it).

But… they have a poster that mimics Obama’s campaign poster, with “Hopeless” on it?

Hey wait a minute— just who is being marketed here? Is this for Libyans… or Americans?

Anyway, all the civil unrest in the Middle East is very sad. I’m really looking forward to the day when the lion will rest next to the lamb…..

Not that I voted for our current president. Not that I really believed he would REALLY give any of that hopey changey stuff. Nope. But still, one thing I was *kinda* hoping for was a reversal of the Patriot Act, our country pulling out of Afghanistan and Iraq, and maybe some final consensus and regulation about diet pills that work. So far, none of that.

I just found out that the Pres extended certain portions of the Patriot Act. Privacy rights activists are unhappy. The extensions include law enforcement to continue wiretapping communication devices (uh, cell phones), a “special court” to access business and library records of “suspected” terrorists, and surveillance of non-American “lone wolf” suspects (which is not a bad provision).

By the way, who wouldn’t be a privacy rights person? Is there anyone who is anti-privacy (besides Eric Schmidt, I mean)?? How can we use the phrase “privacy rights groups.” It’s like saying “anti-family” with “pro-family” or “anti-life” with “pro-life.” Whatever. Just seems weird.

The article I saw (Wash Post) didn’t say when these provisions are set to expire. Huh.

I don’t understand why there is always conflict in the Middle East. Why is this? I understand the history of the area, the territorial boundaries, the disputes, the oil, etc… but why is everyone so unhappy there? Why can’t the folks just be happy with what they have and not bicker over everything?

Oh well, such is humankind, I guess. Here in the United States, it’s parking space. There in the Middle East, it’s wadis. Here in the United States, it’s Windows vs. Mac, Coke vs. Pepsi, McDonald’s vs. Burger King. Did you ever notice that it’s always a “vs”? I mean, even when there doesn’t HAVE to be contentions, there are! What’s the primo best weight loss supplement, what’s the best ballpoint pen, etc etc. Marketing at its best.

Or, as in the words of a Middle Easterner: the enemy of my enemy is my friend. :-p