Things that have pissed me off this week

1.) A billionaire Senator winning $800,000 in powerball.

He's a billionaire already, what does he need with MORE money? He'll get a cushy retirment package from his "civil service" as a senator, and yet he takes money from the poor by selfishly buying a lotto ticket.

2.) Basketball players whining about a dress code
Once again, millionaires whining because their bosses want them to dress nicely and project a professional image. Players making such inane statements as (to paraphrase) it's not what you wear, its how you present yourself. Um, moron, what you wear is how you present yourself. Or another player wanting the NBA to buy the clothes. YOU MAKE A ZILLION DOLLARS PLAYING A GAME! You want someone to buy your clothes, go join the military and make use of yourself. Oh you poor things, someone wants you to wear a sport coat. How about you go over and defuse some mines in Iraq? How about you go to hurricane ravaged towns and help poor people rebuild their lives?
3.) Congress and Senate bickering over cost cutting. Lets take BILLIONS of dollars earmarked for a bridge in Alaska that nobody will use and rebuild some bridges that were destroyed in Louisiana. No? That'll cause the total collapse of Alaska? If billionaires are asked to cut the budget, they see absolutely no problem with spending billions on stupid things. I say we vote some poor person into office, a person that can make their measly minimum wage paycheck go toward feeding and clothing a large family. That'll get us out of debt.

You've got to be kidding

I'm watching the Today show on friday morning, and Matt Lauer introduces a "very brave woman", who, at the age of 38 and mother of 3 children, set off on a journey to do something that she's always wanted to do: become a professional cheerleader.

Ok, I thought to myself seconds before the broadcast. All sorts of things popped into my head about this. Perhaps it was a widowed or single mother of three, whose lifelong dream was to be a cheerleader. She works hard to make a living for her and her kids, somehow finds the time to train and actually becomes a cheerleader. Hard working woman makes it to the big time. I can get into that.

The story starts with a rather nice looking blond doing some cheers with the Baltimore Ravens. Its kinda hard to figure out which one is the mom, they all look the same.

The reporter drones on about how this 38 year old mother of three worked hard to make her dream come true. They show her making cookies with her three kids in a rather spacious and well decked out kitchen, talking about how hard it is to make the time to do cheerleading and spend quality time with the kids.

They show her at charity functions, meeting and greeting some tuxedo and gown clad big wigs... and then they show her husband. The CEO of Constellation Energy.

Wait a minute! You've got to be kidding me!
This story of one woman's goal isn't about some poor woman who struggles to make ends meet by toiling at a job and raising three kids, its about some rich guy's spoiled wife, who probably has housekeepers and nannies and a personal trainer, lives in a HUGE ass mansion, becoming a freaking cheerleader?

That's the inspirational story? Like she didn't show up and someone said "hey, let her in, her husband can buy the team and fire us".

What a crock of shit!

Are the news media so damn out of touch that they actually think this is an inspirational story?

Give me a freakin break!