Elephants and Kangaroos like bubble gum....now that I got your attention.

Don't let the title fool you it actually has nothing to do with what I am about to write, but I was thinking to myself why I usually post a title that is overtly relevant to the post I type afterwards. So I have decided to change it up. Whether or not I will stick with it remains to be seen.

So I guess I will hit the big news of the month/week/microsecond and that is how our government is even more lost with than at any other time in this country's short history. So yay we are going to pay our bills, my boss's wife gets to go back to work (and gets back pay for the time missed) and all is well. Until January when we have to go through all of this political bullshit again. What is the answer? I don't know, but I do know this, politicians are so disconnected from there constituents that the only time they are about the populous is when poll numbers start to shrink. When did it become about parties ideals and political money making machines? I think it has been more so over the past 20 years, I am not 100% certain but I think it could not have been this bad in the 60's or 70's even, and if it was why do you not hear of how bad the party political partisanship was then. Maybe it is because we have actually had the proverbial "jumping the shark" moment. I think America jumped the shark when we started to stray away from what what our founding fathers actually envisioned out of a country, and not what we interpreted they envisioned. My interpretation of everything I was ever taught about the constitution and bill of rights is simply this, as an American I get to be who I want, how I want, and where I want. whether it is Jewish, Catholic, Homosexual, tattooed, one legged, capitalistic, socialistic, communistic, or whatever my heart desires to be. America was the place where those things were considered a "god given" right because this was the land of the free after all, however it seems like nowadays it's better to be hypocritical while we live our daily lives.

I did say this post was going to be a whopper, and well I think by opening up with politics is either blogging suicide or just enough to keep you reading up to this point and further, and I do hope it is further.

So here's my ideas for steps to a better America.

• Term Limits - The president can only serve for a maximum of 8 years , so why is it that senators and congress members have no limits. Set term limits to match the president, or better yet how about half the amount. Elections every 2 years with a maximum of 4 years and after those 4 years you get a small pension (nothing like their current "retirement pension") and is you are in the senate you still have the ability to go upwards within the government.
• Law Books- Go through the laws and gut them. We have laws that probably counter other laws (don't quote me on that) and laws at city, state, and the federal level that need to be expunged. When these laws are redone do not base them off of religious doctrine, do not base them off of veiled corporate funding (lobbyists), and lastly word them with the wording of the people and not the wording of "lawyer speak" if the average person does not understand the law then what is the point of even writing it down for people to follow.
• Cut the fat, cut programs that have no reason of being aside to serve some paragraph of an obscure bill that is passed with the interests of a certain party members district benefiting from it, look at our methodology and streamline it, dammit this is fucking 2013 let's start acting like and put technology to use in the proper ways and formats, after all weren't computers supposed to lead us to a paperless world in regards to business and administration.
• Voting! Got a license, you vote. if you don't then suspend the license(this will greatly increase the turnout), I guarantee that will get people to the polls more. Don't have a license State issued ID works just the same. Don't want to get an ID tough shit you don't get to vote. Seems harsh don't it? tough shit! Enough coddling of our society, it is making us weak as a nation (and believe you me I am not no extremists but I do think we are turning into a nation of pussies.
• Legalize weed, yep I said it, legalize weed and tax the ever living shit out of it like we do to cigarettes. Must be 18 to purchase , just like cigarettes, and enforce it just like we do with DUI infractions. Chances are that if pot were legal then you would probably see a drop in usage. There would definitely be less felons in our prisons.
• Believe it or not we can have social programs while being a capitalist society, but we also need to learn that regulations are killing us and driving jobs elsewhere. Yes we are in a global job market now and things are really different than they were 1 even 2 decades ago. The days of leaving school (high school) and going out and getting a job are behind us, the need for a better preparedness for students is even more relevant now and will only get worse as the years go on. Schools should be a place of learning and not a place of telling, students should be engaged in what it is they are learning, just telling them history is not enough, to really have students learn they will have to be engaged. And god forbid we actually offer programs that encourage arts, music, and other creative outlets for students.

This is just a short list of things that I think about, and even though I know some of them may sound extreme but I have to say that if you have a better idea than don't hesitate to discuss it with me, who knows maybe one day we'll be ale to take our ideas all the way to the white house!

So religion.....ya about that....it's a sham...but I think that is a conversation that  would be better on a one on one basis.

So I got a new laptop for schooling purposes and let me just say that while I can see a future for tablets being in higher use at schools in the future , we are not there yet. The "textbooks" that are often advertised are so obscure or still have so many issues do to improper formatting, programming, or whatever issues arise for newer technology. Like I said though..not yet but I can for sure see a future where textbooks will no longer be the racket that it is. And speaking of a racket, E-books costing the same as paperback and hardback  books is fucking ridiculous. I am definitely in the wrong business, I really need to find out how to become a textbook publisher.

So back to the task at hand, and that is letting you in on my life, my thoughts, and my views on things. On a very personal level it seems that I am getting into my old habits of eating what I want when I want, I swear to you I would never wish the constant struggle with weight loss on my worst enemy. It is a struggle, the smallest inlet of stress seems to be the pebble that always breaks my fat back. Yes I am sick of being fat, yes I wish I could be like my friend Louie who could probably eating anything he wanted throughout the day and never put on a pound, and that in a roundabout way pisses me off and stresses me out; which, you guessed it makes me eat more. Yes being fat is a disease, it is mental as well as physical, but I would have to say the most that it is a mental disorder. Bot being a doctor I can't say it for sure , but I do think my 38 years of fat assness actually gives me some sort of insight.

last topic before I close out for the night, I got a beta invite to the new Blizzard game coming out, Hearthstone, and it is confirmed I suck at it, also it does have a lot of random aspects to it (that's what I am telling myself anyways) and after 5 losses in a row I finally got my hunter, and now I just have to start building up my cards for it, if I understand it correctly there will not be a reset after this section of testing. Even though I suck at it I am actually looking forward to playing it more because it does seem like it has some great potential.