Reaction to the election

I have to say I am dissappointed in the election results. I voted for Rick Santorum, who has been unwavering in his views and stands. I disagree with him on many issues, but he is pro-america.

I feel that democrats don't love america. And yes I feel like they are un-patriotic.
I said it, and i believe it's true.

America is a force for good. We need to use that power, we cannot go back to the clinton years.

Anyway, before I went off on my tangent I had a point. My point is that this election was not lost because of the war!!

The war was part of it, but if you look at the results they are damn close. Democrats won with conservative democrats, not the radical left wing. Look at Ned Lamont.

The Republicans lost because they screwed the conservatives and the libertarians. They've screwed us and we didn't show up ( I did, but I am talking in the royal we). We are getting screwed on social security reform, immigration, budget reform, tax reform and smaller government.

I went all out in 2004, I went I called, I begged people to vote. I did this in the hopes that I could control my own social security money.

I didn't get that or anything else that had me excited!

I have felt betrayed by the GOP. So a much as I am dissapointed, I hope they have learned a lesson and will decide to be true to a large core of the republican party.

In the meantime, I hope Nancy Pelosi doesn't screw us to much.

I'll be back in 2008. The GOP better have something to show me that I will be appreciated this time, or maybe I will stay home.

It's sad

that an employer overlooking ground zero doesn't even mention 9/11. I am really disgusted. It's not even mentioned on the intranet. No moment of silence, nothing.
I'm really disgusted with this company. I look at ground zero from my desk. HAVE A MOMENT OF SILENCE!!

Anger and Sadness

I left early for work today, trying to get ahead of the crowd. I didn't succeed. But that's okay. They were there as my train pulled into the path station this morning. Everyone was quiet and polite. I looked into the hole that still mars the landscape and i wanted to cry. Five years ago I would never have believed I would be taking the Path into the city everyday. But anger drew me to it.

When I was offered two jobs in August of 2002, I chose the one in New York. I was angry. I wanted to get back at the monsters who did this. How could I contribute, I wondered on and off for almost a year. I considered joining the military, but as much as I want/wanted blood for what happened, I don't think I could look through the barrell of a rifle and pull the trigger. Eventually after I graduated, I was offered two jobs, one in Maryland and one in New York.

The job in Maryland was more money and sounded like more fun. I would do a lot of travelling, I had a lot of friends in the area.

But I chose to come to New York, I know it wasn't much of a contribution, but I would come and work and spend my money and support the city. The job was right downtown, two blocks from Ground Zero. When I first started coming, I took the ferry to work from Jersey City. I walked by Ground Zero everyday, I want to remember, I want my anger on the surface, boiling, I want to remember that anger until we hunt every monster down. Once the PATH station was rebuilt, I immediately began taking it. Not only would I walk by Ground Zero, I now ride through the PIT, and my anger returns and I am content.

I never liked New York, and I still don't. Too many liberals for me. But being an American is a privilige but I also feel we need to make sacrifices. I know my sacrifice isn't much, but believe me, it's very hard tom be a conservative in New York. But I grieved for my fellow Americans. Atleast if I came and worked, I would help rebuild the great city of New York.

Ignorance

On the train this morning and this stupid ignorant bastard started in on the twin towers didn't fall because planes crashed into them!!!! He was saying this as we pulled into ground f&^%ing zero!!!

The rage that poured through my body was damn near uncontrollable, I want to take this guys head and slam it into the ground. I had to run off the train because if I had heard one more line of $hit from this @$$hole, I was going to snap.

Planes crashed into the building severing half of the support structure and if that weren't enough, fires from.....JET fuel and TONS of paper/wood/etc weakend the other half of the support structure. I am no engineer (not even close), but it's quite obvious why the towers collapsed. BECAUSE RADICAL $HITHEADS CRASHED PLANES INTO THEM.

Conspiracy theorists get some lives.

If you were building a house

And you found that the ground couldn't support it would you build?

See this from The Confederate Yankee, via Instapundit.

I was having this very discussion with my girlfriend and aunt the other day, why would they rebuild in such a dangerous area. I don't care what levee's they build, what floodwall's are built, mother nature is unstoppable. It may take some time, but she always gets her way.

Blocked Email

Why in the hell does my email access have to be blocked by work? I don't abuse it, i check it and go back to work. It's bullshit.

Painting Targets

To expound upon my previous post (scroll down) see this link. Let's just paint targets for the terrorists. While I agree studies should be done to find our vulnerabilities, they should be kept private and classified.

Free Press

Free press doesn't mean that you have a license to reveal anything you find. Discretion is necessary. Usually it's the New York Slimes that gets me angry, but today I wake up and every paper made me angry.

Every detail of how the Britain terrorist were tracked and discovered is plastered all over. Why are we revealing the errors so the next terrorists can learn from the mistakes?

Student Visas

Why do we still allow "students" from questionable countries to come here? It just seems stupid as this article in the NY Post documents.

Please cancel all student visas for questionable countries.

Peace Protesters at Ground Zero

I make it no secret, I believe in the war. Don't get me wrong, I would love for there to be peace. But I am not naive enough to believe it will just happen one day. We need to make peace happen by killing the people who want to kill us.

I'd protest for it if I had to, but one thing I would never do is protest at such a solemn place. I find it disgusting that it is done by anyone, be it peace activists, "war" activists or for any other reason, it's tacky and dishonors the horror that occurred there.

Go protest at city hall, or in a park, or anywhere else, just not there.

I walk past that hallowed ground everyday, and everyday I look into that pit and remember the tragedy that occurred there, please do not dishonor it.

Anti-Semitism

Disclaimer: I am not Jewish, I am Catholic (lapsed).

Why is Mel Gibson getting some much damn attention when Iran's President is calling for the destruction of Israel?

It seems that all the outrage should be directed at the actions of Iran and Hezbollah, instead of the drunk thoughts of a Hollywood actor.

Work Hours

My work hours are 9-5 with a 1 hour lunch. I usually get in at about 8:45 and leave at 4:55 and I either don't take lunch or take 15-30 minutes max.

So today I get in and there's an email (I wasn't singled out) saying the everyone is REQUIRED to be here until exactly 5 and later if needed.

Now this pissed me off. I don't get paid by the hour and I am not eligible for overtime.

I know, it may seem to be ridiculous to be upset about 5 minutes, but let's run down the effects of this 5 minutes.

In 5 minutes I miss the path train back to jersey. By missing that train, I miss the 5:15 bus to my home.

That 5 minutes changes my commute from 35 minutes to 65 minutes.

Seems rather stingy to me, all I know is that from now on i won't be starting early and I will be taking complete lunch hours.

Bagel Bars

This is the incident that so enraged me, I got off my lazy but and started a blog.

For the past couple days this has been building up and it's about to reach a violent crescendo if I do not vent.

I get a bagel everyday. I toast it and then I usually slop some peanut butter on it, no jelly, I know it is weird.

So I am upstairs in the little cafe in my workplace and I toast my bagel and I go to put my pb on it.

I turn, and there's this guy standing there, talking with some woman and slowly, ever so slowly buttering his bagel.

That's fine. But the fact that's he's sitting dead center of the condiment bar is what sets me off.

I don't know if you know what I am talking about so I will attempt to describe it. The bar is about 8 feet long, filled with ice, and there are maybe 12 different containers, ranging from butter to cream cheese and everything in between and beyond.

My peanut butter is on one end, and the butter is on the other, plenty of room for both condiments to be used, but this jerk, is standing dead center effectively blocking me off from the pb.

I was going to strangle him, but knowing that would cause me to lose my job, I restrained myself and patiently waited for him to move and stop flirting.

Good Morning

The inspiration of this blog is ignorant rude people. Now, this isn't to say I am never ignorant or rude, I am sure I am and will continue to be in the future. I intend to lambast the things I see in life to hopefully improve myself and see my own ignorant or rude behavior.