Great News

So this is way cool! Maybe I am behind the times (wouldn't be shocking), but now I can publish from Microsoft Word!! I signed into my blogger account through Word and just starting writing. What you find out when have little to do at work. J Anyway, this is great news.

 

Also great news, this weekend is wedding weekend in Ohio! Woop Woop! No, not my wedding asshats, but the Rossi wedding is tomorrow! We have been hearing about this and looking forward to it for months! It is finally here; can't wait. Plus the word on the street is that they have top-shelf liquor, Makers Mark and Goose, apparently. That is definitely going to be trouble with this crew. Hopefully people will 'give me their best' for some pictures.

 

Again more good news, I get to see the little ones this weekend! After the Rossi wedding, presuming nobody gets injured along the way, Nemisis and I are driving to Cleveland, OH to see Elenee and Co. It is always a blast to see her, Evy and now Estelle! Look at the new suit I bought Evy. She just adores Aerial, and hopefully adores her new suit and cover up. Ugh the pictures are not working! This is frustrating. O well, packing up and heading out for a four-day weekend!! Hopefully pictures soon!

 

Also, and early congrats to the Ron and Ronda! CHEERS!

 

Yinzers and Picksburgh Stiller Fans, check it out!

What is done, is done. You can't change what you say after you say it (or should I say tweet it).  I know that was John Madden-ish statement, but it is nothing short of the truth. 

The past few days 'yinzers' have been talking about Pittsburgh Steeler Rashard Mendenhall's comments on bin Laden's death.  If you have not heard or seen these tweets, please get your head out of your ass and read below:

• "What kind of person celebrates death?" he wrote. "It's amazing how people can HATE a man they have never even heard speak. We've only heard one side..."
• "We'll never know what really happened. I just have a hard time believing a plane could take a skyscraper down demolition style" 

 Yes, these tweets are inappropriate not to mention inaccurate, but I am not here to judge his comments.  I am here to judge his lack of knowledge and/or understanding of today's social/media outlets, mainly Twitter.  When are athletes and/or celebs going to realize, OTHER PEOPLE CAN READ WHAT YOU WRITE ON YOUR TWITTER ACCOUNT, AND YOU WILL SUFFER THE CONSEQUENCES?  Yes, I know that is a John Madden-type statement as well, but grasping this concept is apparently a difficult task.  How many times have we seen an athlete in hot water because of Twitter?   Too many to count.  When will they learn their lesson? 

Hopefully Rashard learned his lesson over the last few days.  If not,  maybe just maybe he can learn from a teammate.  No, not a veteran like James Farrior. No, not a QB hotshot like Ben Roethlisberger, but a rookie.  A rookie named Baron Batch.  A rookie who understands the use of social/media outlets. If you are thinking I am crazy, then CLICK HERE and read his blog. Granted, Baron has not even played a single down in the NFL.  I understand that. With the attention he will receive, especially being a Pittsburgh Steeler, his attitude may change, but I doubt it.  I am willing to bet he continues to use his blog as a positive outlet to gain positive attention. So Rashard, pay attention to your fellow teammate and learn from him. 

Stop the Charade.

Until this point, I have not commented on Osama bin Laden's death.  It is one of those things by which you are shocked that you have so many thoughts you can't get think straight.  Once the shock factor subsides you are able to put pieces together and think clearly.  So after reading, writing, re-reading, re-writing, these are my thoughts on Osama bin Laden and President Obama.  Mind you, it is all speculation, my thoughts, and opinions......

So while on the eliptical at the gym, I watched "The O'Reilly Factor".  This was the first I really paid attention to the TV media coverage of Osama's death.  While his death tops the media, the more interesting tidbit is United States moving forward with or without Obama.

This one 'act' in Obama's presidency may have saved his reputation and his campaign for the presidency in 2012.  Obama  made the decision to go ahead with the military operation the lead to Osama's death.  Obama took credit, along with others, of the success of the operation.  Some Americans consider him god right now.  He accomplished  it all.  To see how elated the American public was after Obama's announcement of Osama's death, I would not put it past America to elect him in 2012.  After all this is one of the greatest military defeats in terrorism, so why not elect him in 2012?

Obama won over the American public, but don't you think for a very left-winged president, this was more of a right-winged decision?   Seems odd after almost three years in offiice, making decision after decision with a  very liberal view, that he made this conservative-type decision with ease.  Interesting, right?   Maybe with this indecisive decision of his, he gained popularity for the time being with the American public, but how long can his charade last?