Alright, so this is my first post. The first couple might be a little rough, but I'm sure they'll improve as I get used to writing in a non-report format.
Although I have a very bitter feeling towards college football right now, I have no disagreement with the BCS. Much like jmeeks, I hate the Big 10 (I guess they're universities don't teach them how to count to 11)* and feel absolutely no pity towards Michigan. They had their chance to win the national championship by beating OSU. I think Michigan really would have a good shot at beating them, but I think you have to give Florida their chance. On that note, I also think that USC is better than Florida. They choked last week, and it was a rivalry game, which of course can go either way no matter what the talent level. Just ask the Hawkeyes about losing to a much worse ISU team 5 out of 8 years or something like that. This is why the 4 team playoff would be awesome. I'd much rather exclude the 5th best team than the 3rd best. Also, if they did it this way, they would still use the BCS and the bowl games. They would probably make more money off of this than the previous way (this is just purely a guess). Those are my feelings.
My next thoughts are going to be on the national deficit. Here's a national deficit counter http://www.brillig.com/debt_clock/
I think this is getting out of hand. Whatever, I guess we'll just pay for it later. Thats probably what a person who lost their house due to credit card debt said also. Sure, part of it is this war, however, the tax cuts were a large cause for this problem. What Bush appearently doesn't understand is that when you cut income, you must cut spending.
Anyway, I'm going to stop before I get frustrated, however, I'm going to leave you with the Urban Dictionary word of the post:
| nicotini |
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| An alcoholic drink that includes nicotine as an ingredient. Usually made with vodka in which tobacco has been soaked. Generally billed as an alternative for smokers in smoke-free establishments. After the citywide smoking ban came into effect, my only option was to drink an occassional nicotini while barhopping. | |||||
2 comments:
First of all, your willingness to quote urban dicionary is absolutely amazing. You are awesome. As for national debt, I agree and disagree. I disagree because I feel that national debt is not as bad as some people think. That opinion comes from my majoring in business. HOWEVER, it is not something that can be abused by our gov't. Bush and co. are digging us a huge hole and it's ridiculous. I've read that on his eight years serving our country, Clinton actually ran a surplus of around 800 million dollars. Can't wait til Bush is outta here.
Yeah, there is some discrepancy between the numbers that are reported and the actual figures for deficit and debt. The thing that I don't believe a lot of people realize is that there is a difference between the deficit and the national debt. The deficit is the amount that the debt increases over a single year, so an increase in the deficit increases the debt arithmetically. There was an article that said if Congress had to report their budgets the same way as businesses, the deficits would be astounding and the debt would be much greater than it is now. If I find some more information, I'll make a full blog posting.
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