Random Thoughts – 4/8

The federal case against Barry Bonds is a complete waste of resources. Its only purpose is to serve vapid politicians and political appointees by providing them something they can use as a smoke shield to distract us little people. Bonds may be described as any number of things but none of those matters, whatever it is he did, the supposed perjury will be impossible to prove beyond a reasonable doubt and did not do anything that hurt anyone or cover up any federal crime. The justice department should not be allowed to witch hunt public figures for the amusement of the proletariat, no matter how rabid the sheep watching from afar are.

The NFL players association requesting the federal courts to nanny talks between them and the NFL on a new collective bargaining agreement is another complete waste of resources. It’s simply another ploy in the player’s association’s never-ending PR blitz attempting to for the NFL to capitulate to their demands without having to actually negotiate. It is not the federal courts responsibility to referee the negotiations.

All the talk surrounding the Wisconsin “non-partisan” Supreme Court election reminds me of 2004 when John Kerry presumed victory and alleged fraud because of exit polls. Don’t remember that? There was a discrepancy between exit polls (which as statistics are not always accurate and should not be used ever to make definitive points about a population, just make inferences about) and because of statistical polls, Kerry doubted actual return counts. Anyway, the union democrat in the Wisconsin election declared victory after the Associated Press announced unofficial returns showing a lead of about 200 votes. Those totals though did not include all results and upon complete canvassing her opponent was up by about 7,000 votes. Counting chickens before the eggs have hatched and believing what you want to be true doesn’t make it so.

Impending so-called partial government shutdown makes me wonder; what if nobody notices? People that depend on government paychecks (actual employees including the military as government aid recipients will be covered) will certainly notice but what about the rest of us? What happens when Monday morning happens and the sun still rises and the rest of the business world gets to it? No matter the opinion of who’s cheer leading a shutdown (maybe kind-of, me) and who’s trying to kill women (really, this is the kind of crap spouted by democrat legislators) there are facts. The democrat congress did not pass a fiscal year 2011 budget last fall when they should have. The (Republican controlled) House of Representatives passed a FY2011 budget, HR 1, in February. The (democrat controlled) Senate has not passed a FY2011 budget. Most importantly, the US Government is, by any definition, broke. It borrows 40 cents of every dollar spent. This is beyond unsustainable and completely irresponsible. The billions in cuts that were outlined in HR 1 are dwarfed by the deficit outlined in HR 1. Emotional ploys may be therapeutic but ignore reality. There is not enough money to pay for the goodies that vote hungry politicians promised.