I cannot see a good end to this situation in Iraq. Apparently, one of our soldiers shot an unarmed man. Riverbend’s reaction at Baghdad Burning really puts it in perspective. So much for the strategy of winning the hearts and minds of the Iraqi people.

I’m glad I have a big screen HDTV. I can see football and basketball games with incredible clarity and I don’t have to worry about me and my kids being in the middle of a fist fight. Everyone seems to understand that players must show some control, and I agree with that. But fans have a responsibility to behave as well. If you walked in to a restaurant or even a bar and started acting like that, you would be removed. Why is a sports arena any different? I hope this trend doesn’t continue, because I’d like to take my kids to see these games, but for now the fans are too out of control.

After a nice holiday weekend of eating too much, I’ve started a diet. I’m about 40 pounds overweight. It will not do. Although, I’ve been going to gym regularly, it hasn’t been enough. So I’m limiting my caloric intake to about 1500 calories a day for now, after a couple of weeks I’ll raise to somewhere between 2000-2500. It’s no fun. I’ll just treat it like I did when I quit smoking and when I quit drinking. No more eating for fun. No more have some more cause it’s yummy. I don’t miss smoking or drinking anymore, hopefully I won’t miss that either.

And this just in, Tom Ridge is calling it quits. Does that mean that color codes are gone too? I hope not, I’d miss them. Did anybody else notice that all of the moderates in the cabin, Ashcroft the exception, are resigning?

And the President is off to make nice with Canada? How about the time bomb shaping up in the Ukraine? How about the labor situation China? Iraq? Afghanistan? Nope. Canada. I guess I just don’t get it.

One last thing, I must be doing something right, I’ve received 2 African Bank Scam emails and 3 Golden Lottery Scam email in the last 2 weeks. If I respond to all five, I should be good for somewhere in the neighborhood of $32.1 Million. I’m not sure why they need to deposit directly into my account using my account numbers or why they need my Social Security Number. And fronting the $10,000 in good faith money seems like a lot but look at the return!