This week...

It was a strange week and a busy week. There was a lot of news and most of it requires more waiting which I find especially frustrating because of my current work situation, which involves lots of waiting.

Brett Favre is back in the news. One day this week he was retiring. And the next he was going to play if he was physically able to. So, effectively nothing happened. But it was covered nearly breathlessly by the sports media for several days. Continue to stand by.

A judge in California strikes down the state’s Prop 8, defining state sanctioned marriage as between one male and one female or denying the right to marriage to gay couples depending on one’s viewpoint, because the traditional definition was no longer valid and of 80 “fact” findings of the judge, all agreed with his viewpoint. How convenient. This was a state judge so it now heads to the federal appeals court and then to the Supreme Court. Continue to stand by. The most sense I have read on this came from David Harsanyi:

isn't it about time we freed marriage from the state?...Imagine if government had no interest in the definition of marriage. Individuals could commit to each other, head to the local priest or rabbi or shaman -- or no one at all -- and enter into contractual agreements, call their blissful union whatever they felt it should be called and go about the business of their lives.

In the end though it’s all about government “benefits”. “Benefits” that I never seem to be eligible for and every day it becomes clear is simply a code word for the ability of the government to take from some and give to others for “the greater good”.

Last week the pricing for the Chevy Volt and the government “benefit” of $7500 towards that price was announced. The President hailed the vehicle as a beacon to our future. Others made fun of a car that costs more than twice as much as its gas powered equivalent that can only go 40 miles on a charge while others derided both sides and deemed themselves correct, in the middle. Whatever that is.

The First Lady, Mrs. Obama, took to Spain on vacation. Renting dozens of hotel rooms with dozens of friends. Some of it was on their dime. Much on ours, including Air Force 2 and the salaries and travel costs of up to 60 secret service agents. Interesting how the news isn’t reporting on this trip as much as President Bush was hammered for vacations at his own ranch.

It was the President’s 49th birthday this week and he celebrated by going home to Chicago and meeting with Unions and throwing fundraisers for democrat candidates. In continuing to blame President Bush for today’s economic circumstances the current President is actually calling out the former President, by name. How presidential. It makes one wonder when this president will actually be president, when exactly does history begin for President Obama?

And unfortunately, Denver Broncos linebacker and sack specialist Elvis Dumervil has torn a pec muscle. It is likely that he will miss the season. A bad sign for an inconsistent defense.