So The Onion carried this the other day. Aside from the idea that all rednecks are Southern and therefore speak for the South (the biggest racists I've actually
met in the US were in Detroit and I do not presume they speak for all of the industrial North) it's really quite funny.

I have no comment about Bush's State of the Union Address, other than to quote the Aaron Sorkin's fictional President Bartlett.

"Just stand there and be wrong. Just stand there in your wrongness and be wrong and get used to it."

I have no idea what the Democrats are going to do, but another term of this idiot will be too much for the world to bear.

There's little to report in the news...aside from this weekend seeing all kinds of MLK celebrations. I noticed that Jen had said about the protest when GWB visited Atlanta, but I only found out a few minutes ago why...

I was reading on the BBCi site about Biush railroading Judge Charles Pickering into the appeals circuit.

Now, normally the process is that the President names a nominee, sends it to the Senate who confirm or oppose. If the nominee is confirmed then everything is hunky-dory and the judge goes into a lifetime position in the higher levels of judiciary. If the nominee is opposed then the President will usually go back to the drawing board and find a new nominee.

On Friday, however, Bush took advantage of the Senate being on its winter break to ignore the whole official advisory process to name Judge Charles Pickering to the 5th Circuit of Appeals.

Pickering's skill as jurist, and his knack for fair and balanced sentencing, prompted a letter from notable historians in the South.

And it's not just my adopted Southern friends that are offended. The gay comunity is. And so are the African Americans. And women.

So, he only pisses off the whole of the South, homosexuals, women and black people. I can't imagine why he's the man Bush wants forging the direction of American Justice.

Oh no, wait...I *can*...

Anyhow, I figure that's the reason for the protest at the MLK thing on Friday.

So I'm a little surprised.

The reason I didn't post for so long is that I was so disillusioned with my job, that the store I was working in was so badly managed and worse, that the bad management was supported at a higher level, I just hated to go to work and withdrew from doing anything which was fun.

Then I moved to a different store for my "official" move into an assistant manager position and, after a few weeks of getting to know the people in the store, I'm finally enjoying my job again. To be fair, I loved my training. But that was mostly because I had a lot of visitors while I was in my training store. It was only when I was moved to the Mall that I had a crisis of faith.

Anyhow. What it comes down to is that I don't get calls asking me to come into work in an hour to cover a shift because of inadequate scheduling, or criticized for suggesting that the staff on my shift should be given their state mandated 30 minute breaks.

Work rant over. Time for two jokes, one a reworking of an old joke and one that's just old.

1. What's the difference between Neil Armstrong and Michael Jackson?
Neil Armstrong walked on the moon...and Michael Jackson is a child molester.


2. What's the difference between babies and bowling balls?
You can't unload a truckload of bowling balls with a pitch-fork.

Thangoo...

So I guess I should put up a link to the new car.

It's really kinda nice. Red. The old one was blue. New one is red. Red, yes.

....blah blah blah blah...

...so it's been some months, and I'm not going to bother filling in the missing time and what I've been filling it with, because mostly it's been work.

Since my schedule has settled a little I think I can actually begin posting again (no, really, I mean it this time).

The big news of the last couple of months is that Jen and I got a new car, then it got crumpled in North Carolina...and now, to begin the new year, we've finally replaced it.

Our New Year celebration happened in a gas station in Greenville, SC, where the nice staff put on a fireworks display. We waited till they had concluded with the explosions before refuelling.

The sports also will probably get updated...football season is over, the Bulldogs beat Purdue in a bowl game of some kind yesterday, blowing a 24-0 lead before finally winning 34-27 in OT.

Michael Vick came back a month before the end of the Falcons season and helped the (10-2) dirty birds to win three of the last four. Dan Reeves (former Giants and Broncos coach) was fired with a couple of weeks left and Arthur Blank, Falcons owner put the task of finding a replacement into the hands of newly hired GM, Rich McKay - formerly of Superbowl Champion Tampa Bay Buccaneers.

Georgia Tech, on the other hand, are ranked 4th in the country for NCAA Basketball and have a historic best staryt to the season for them with a 13-0 record. Which is much, much better than the pro team are doing - the Hawks are 9-24.

And despite an car wreck with EA Sports cursed coverguy Dany Heatley which broke last year's NHL Young PLayer of the Season's ankle and killed his team mate Dan Snyder, the Thrashers are doing well enough - leading the South Eastern Conference with a 19-16-3-2 (W-L-T-OTL).

So you're up to date with the sports, and te car situation. Next time I'll have something more than that to report, but I wouldn't be holding my breath if I were you...