Random Thoughts 11/13/06

• When you cook an animal you've gunned down yourself, do you worry about chipping your teeth on hidden shotgun pellets? Me too! Well, worry no more; now you can use Season Shot! Avoid those nasty shotgun pellets and flavor your game bird from the inside all in one shot. This new ammo is made of tightly packed seasonings that flavor your game bird on impact. So the next time you kill dinner, first pick from one our six tasty flavors. Season Shot – ammo with flavor!
• Fitness update: I've lost eleven pounds in two weeks. I'm lifting weights at the YMCA and I'm playing a lot of basketball, which is pretty funny to watch when done in that order (it's not really shooting baskets, just threatening to). Shannon and I are enjoying working out together and it's close to home. I'm eating a lot of brown rice and skinless chicken and I've almost completely cut out regular soda (formerly 3-5 cans per day).
• That didn't take long. The Dems haven't even taken power yet and they're already talking about giving up the fight in Iraq. Way to go. Victory? Finishing the job? Honoring a commitment? Nah.
  
• Have you ever read Ronald Reagan's speech to CPAC in 1975? It's been getting a lot of traction this last week, largely because it's so relevant to today's situation. Reagan said in part, "A political party cannot be all things to all people. It must represent certain fundamental beliefs which must not be compromised to political expediency, or simply to swell its numbers." It's a good read.
• A Judge in Massachusetts has officially ruled that burritos are, in fact, NOT sandwiches. I just thought you should know.
• Voters in Tennessee elected a man to the city commission this year unaware that he was on the most wanted list in the next county. As Waylon Jennings said, "Makin' their way, any way they know how, that's just a little bit more than the law will allow…" Voters in North Carolina voted a dead guy onto the county board. The Democratic Party ran ads for him almost a month after he died and he won by a landslide. Election workers knew he was dead but didn't say anything to voters because "that's not our job." Finally, a man running for mayor of a small Arkansas town got the election results back and it said he received exactly zero votes. He thought he voted for himself, and several others said they did too, but the electronic voting machine says he got zero. Now he needs a court order to review an election where the winner won with a total of just 18 votes – like I said, small town.