I've received a few comments that I'd like to address. First off, Nikki, a lot of the pictures I have I'll definitely have to send to you. I've got a lot and I need to put them on a computer so that I can get them off my camera. So I'll try to make sure and do that pretty soon. Another thing too, I'm certainly not saying that your blog is by any means nonsensical, in fact yours is quite interesting and I love hearing how my little ones are doing (Jeff included). You must understand though that what I was trying to make clear is that I like to ramble, creating posts that when I read back through most of the time make absolutely no sense. But I'm glad that everyone is enjoying it all so far. You all need to become followers of the blog so I know how many of you crazy people are actually lookin and readin.
Oh, and Grandma... I wouldn't say that being "trapped in provo" is a bad thing. I just don't get to get out much because of all the responsibilities I have here that force me to stay around so much. I would like to see more. Let's hope in the near future I can rectify the situation by being able to travel and see a few interesting and exciting places.
Tuesday, September 30, 2008
The Bailout
Yesterday I watched as the House of Representatives voted pretty strongly against the govt.'s proposed $700 Billion bailout. It's interesting to see what will happen with the rest of Congress when the Senate gets a hold of this thing. It also kind of makes you wonder if all that filibustering that was going on yesterday had (perchance) anything to do with phone calls coming into major Republican leaders from their wealthy constituents/funders who said something to the effect of, "don't expect another penny unless this bailout dies." I assume this because the wealthy of America don't have an incredibly large amount to fear from this, or so they think.
Many of the elite business men of America have for years now been trading in foreign markets because, sadly, the only things in the American market stable enough to put your money on are: Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Porn. And by now, buying into that stuff is next to impossible. (Is there actually a stock industry for Porn? If it is, I'm sure it's huge.)So if the stock market crashes, or rather as most are thinking, when it crashes. The loss won't be felt as much in the pockets of elitists. Unless they have retirement packages through their corporation or other big lenders like T. Rowe Price, WaMu, etc. They better have a lot of cold cash hidden in jars under their mattress if not only they expect to survive retirement after losing their 401K, but if they also expect to keep the same level of "high-society" life they've grown accustomed to.
Where this crash really hits home though, is the average everyday American who even with perfect credit and the ability to front even 50% of what they need to buy a house, can't. Why? There just isn't enough money floating around for lenders to give handouts. No one can, so no one will. Car loans will be hard to find, even financing for small ventures such as student loans will be punished by scarcity. We will find ourselves stuck face first into the dog eat dog world of "whose ready for the worst?"
I honestly don't know if $700 billion will make that big of a difference in the long run, or if we should be left to our own devices and let the moguls that dropped themselves into a hole fight back out. Either way, I think that this problem has more potential for trickle down then these republican congressmen are allowing themselves to admit. Suddenly the idea of being a college student forever isn't so bad, especially if the Army keeps paying for it...
Many of the elite business men of America have for years now been trading in foreign markets because, sadly, the only things in the American market stable enough to put your money on are: Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Porn. And by now, buying into that stuff is next to impossible. (Is there actually a stock industry for Porn? If it is, I'm sure it's huge.)So if the stock market crashes, or rather as most are thinking, when it crashes. The loss won't be felt as much in the pockets of elitists. Unless they have retirement packages through their corporation or other big lenders like T. Rowe Price, WaMu, etc. They better have a lot of cold cash hidden in jars under their mattress if not only they expect to survive retirement after losing their 401K, but if they also expect to keep the same level of "high-society" life they've grown accustomed to.
Where this crash really hits home though, is the average everyday American who even with perfect credit and the ability to front even 50% of what they need to buy a house, can't. Why? There just isn't enough money floating around for lenders to give handouts. No one can, so no one will. Car loans will be hard to find, even financing for small ventures such as student loans will be punished by scarcity. We will find ourselves stuck face first into the dog eat dog world of "whose ready for the worst?"
I honestly don't know if $700 billion will make that big of a difference in the long run, or if we should be left to our own devices and let the moguls that dropped themselves into a hole fight back out. Either way, I think that this problem has more potential for trickle down then these republican congressmen are allowing themselves to admit. Suddenly the idea of being a college student forever isn't so bad, especially if the Army keeps paying for it...
Friday, September 26, 2008
The Fam Damnily
So, it would be a good idea, I suppose, to start off my blog by talking a little about my crazy family. I've got some random pictures I've taken over the last few years/months of them so let's enjoy.
This is my mom and I in Disneyland not too long ago. I can assume that she won't be incredibly proud to see this picture, and not because she's not paying attention...but because I look like an imbecile. I really don't know what it is that she expects though. I mean, we are in Disneyland, why not enjoy yourself, even if it means looking stupid sometimes...right Ben?
Exactly. I think it's understandable without saying that he's not exactly the brightest of the kids. But I do have to admit that he certainly is the life of the party, and everybody loves him. He just got back from his mission in Estonia, and is now in Idaho studying, or more specifically looking for a mate with which to procreate his seed
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Here's my dad. The only other pictures I had with me of him for some reason were ones where I couldn't see him very well or he was looking especially old. But he's still got quite a bit of good fight in him, so I don't really mess him with still. He'd shoot me well before I ever had the chance to do anything to him.
And here is our wonderful Stephanie, my baby sister, in one of my more favorite pictures I've taken of her. Of course, that's kinda because I straight-jacket tied her like that, and she really was having a hard time getting out of it. She's our little insane asylum breakout. But we love her, so we're not turning her in unless she loses her usefulness.
This is Nikki, the married sister. She rocks but we don't get to see as much of her because she's still back in VA with her family. Bummer... She's awesome, but I must say one of the best parts about Nikki is that she gave us a couple of amazing and awesome nieces, Katelyn and Bridget. Let's show them.
Katelyn and Jeff in Disneyland. Funny story...that night Katelyn had a bag of popcorn, which she's quite the fan of. I took her to meet Mickey, and she had it in her hands, and as a joke Mickey grabbed it out of her hands and pretended to eat it. I think she was about to have a heart attack, she didn't know what to do. So the person helping Mickey told him to just give it back, and everything went smoothly from there.
This is my little baby girl Bridget. I like this picture because she looks like quite the little pink Jedi. I think we're all willing to admit that I'm her favorite. i was the first one on earth to get her to fall asleep in my arms other than her mommy and daddy. Ya I know... tell me about it... It was a good day for me.
Well, that's the basic gist. I would add more, but honestly that's enough to swallow for one post. Sometime soon I'll sit down to tell ya more about my job and the like. After all this intro stuff it'll be much easier to get into more interesting "what's going on" sort of things. Until next time...
This is my mom and I in Disneyland not too long ago. I can assume that she won't be incredibly proud to see this picture, and not because she's not paying attention...but because I look like an imbecile. I really don't know what it is that she expects though. I mean, we are in Disneyland, why not enjoy yourself, even if it means looking stupid sometimes...right Ben?
Exactly. I think it's understandable without saying that he's not exactly the brightest of the kids. But I do have to admit that he certainly is the life of the party, and everybody loves him. He just got back from his mission in Estonia, and is now in Idaho studying, or more specifically looking for a mate with which to procreate his seed
.Here's my dad. The only other pictures I had with me of him for some reason were ones where I couldn't see him very well or he was looking especially old. But he's still got quite a bit of good fight in him, so I don't really mess him with still. He'd shoot me well before I ever had the chance to do anything to him.
And here is our wonderful Stephanie, my baby sister, in one of my more favorite pictures I've taken of her. Of course, that's kinda because I straight-jacket tied her like that, and she really was having a hard time getting out of it. She's our little insane asylum breakout. But we love her, so we're not turning her in unless she loses her usefulness.
This is Nikki, the married sister. She rocks but we don't get to see as much of her because she's still back in VA with her family. Bummer... She's awesome, but I must say one of the best parts about Nikki is that she gave us a couple of amazing and awesome nieces, Katelyn and Bridget. Let's show them.
Katelyn and Jeff in Disneyland. Funny story...that night Katelyn had a bag of popcorn, which she's quite the fan of. I took her to meet Mickey, and she had it in her hands, and as a joke Mickey grabbed it out of her hands and pretended to eat it. I think she was about to have a heart attack, she didn't know what to do. So the person helping Mickey told him to just give it back, and everything went smoothly from there.
This is my little baby girl Bridget. I like this picture because she looks like quite the little pink Jedi. I think we're all willing to admit that I'm her favorite. i was the first one on earth to get her to fall asleep in my arms other than her mommy and daddy. Ya I know... tell me about it... It was a good day for me.
Well, that's the basic gist. I would add more, but honestly that's enough to swallow for one post. Sometime soon I'll sit down to tell ya more about my job and the like. After all this intro stuff it'll be much easier to get into more interesting "what's going on" sort of things. Until next time...
Wednesday, September 24, 2008
The Inaugural Post
Well well, look at this... I'm blogging. I really didn't know how long it would be until I could say that, since up to this point it really didn't seem like I had many reasons to. But ya, I guess I just decided that this would be a fun way to A) Collect all my thoughts, B) Share those thoughts with friends and family, and C) Let them laugh at me for how nonsensical most of these posts are sure to be. Nonetheless, as nonsensical as they may be, I've got lots of interesting things going on in my life right now, and this will provide for me a great way of sharing some stories with those who I love. I think that this will be the only post that I throw on here for today, but hopefully tomorrow I'll be able to make another post. And who knows...maybe sometime in the near future I may just be able to throw a few photos on here too!
So until next time...
So until next time...
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