Cheney v. Obama

It is funny how former Vice President Dick Cheney (a.k.a the real President of the Bush administration) is all over the news criticizing President Obama about the treatment of terrorists. During the eight years Bush "occupied" The White House" Cheney seemed to always be in an undisclosed location. When he made rare appearances it was either shooting his close friend with a rifle or making one of his numerous hospital visits.

Cheney is now in the spotlight, not restricted by a stupid title, not playing second fiddle to a man with a C average, and he has something to say. Where is President Bush? Shouldn't he be defending the decisions made under his name?

Bush has not been seen but less than a handful of times since he waved goodbye to the country aboard a chopper.

The frugal Republican is such an oxymoron.

Let Obama clean up your mess in peace.

King James vs. Melo Finals

I would like to see a LeBron (James)/Carmelo (Anthony) match-up in the Finals. These guys came in the league together in 2003 and Melo deserves some attention on the Finals stage after being overshadowed by LeBron and Dwyane Wade (also from the class of '03).

Continental Idiots

I heard on Good Morning America this morning Chris Cuomo speaking about the newly released tape of the final moments of Continental flight 3407 that crashed in Buffalo earlier this year. He quoted the conversation the pilot and first officer was having in the final moments verbatim.

I found the conversation very disturbing.

"I have never flown with ice on the wings before" paraphrasing the first officer.
Then they start having personal conversations Chris Cuomo says, a violation when traveling below 10,000 feet.

Um, hello? The plane is going down, out of control I might add, and the first officer is asking the pilot if she should get another job?

I think you have to be alive to search for a job, honey. Why not save your life first along with the other hundredsof civilians on the plane that have entrusted you to safely fly them to their friends and family waiting for them?

Then the pilot says he already has a "Verizon package". No good if you don't show up, brain surgeon.

Then he asks should he pull the plane up, the exact opposite of what he should have done.

uh, how many flight hours have you logged? Unreal.

Then a few seconds from impact the pilot realizes he is in trouble screaming out the son of God's name. He can't help you.

A tragedy, not only for the innocent lives lost, but the stupidity, selfishness and negligence of the pilot and first officer.

Let me find out my pilot is talking about going on vacation when trying to land a plane I am on and I'm storming the cockpit... (just kidding FBI)

just my thoughts ladies and gentlemen...

Swine Flu causing panic

Excuse my ignorance, but pigs have been around forever and people have been getting the flu since they could walk. How is it that there has never been a swine flu until last week? Where did this particular flu strain come from. When I see a family in Queens getting interviewed on Good Morning America with their 300 pound pig, I have to scratch my head.

I mean you have President Obama and Mike Bloomberg telling people to wash their hands, cover their mouth when they sneeze and cough... umm, last I checked that was called manners.

I was already holding my breath on the train when people relieved themselves of germs without impeding the path of the microorganisms, but I never had to worry about swine when I thought about getting flu symptoms.

This is right up there with the white powder that was coming out of envelopes after 9/11. Is this "strain" of flu more dangerous because it has origins in another country? Hopefully this won't become a pandemic like another "incurable" man made disease that supposedly originated in Africa.

Until then, sanitizer is your best investment in this bear market...