Yeah, thought I’d do it too since I need a break from work. Here’s 25 things you might not know about me.
- I don’t like talking on the phone (unless it’s to people I know) so I get Brian to do it usually.
- I will always wear a T shirt and shorts swimming, no matter what.
- I never ever want to have kids although I have their names picked out already.
- I don’t speak up enough when I should and I’m a chicken, most of the time.
- I’m still undecided on where I stand when it comes to gun control and legalizing marijuana.
- A cold Keystone Light is the only beer I can drink without cringing the first few sips.
- I memorized the lyrics to REM – The End Of The World, Eminem – Without Me, Linkin Park – Bleed It Out, Austin Powers Dr Evil – Just The Two Of Us, Nelly – Ride With Me, and Billy Joel – We Didn’t Start The Fire. I can sing all of them successfully. Barenaked Ladies – One Week I can’t quite sing because it’s too fast; same with Blues Travelers – Hook.
- It makes me feel special when people copy me. I started a few trends in High School. My friends copied my TV, my TV stand, my couch, and my phone.
- My two favorite things are politics and football.
- I used to be able to eat whatever I wanted and however much I wanted, but now I have to cut back a little to maintain my current weight.
- If my work did bother to block Facebook, I probably wouldn’t get on ever. Very seldom do I get on Facebook at home. Although I always make sure whatever I post from FriendFeed services gets posted to Facebook.
- I will pretend to know what people are talking about just to fit in sometimes.
- I’ll probably never get up the nerve to leave MORI.
- I love getting crushes on unobtainable guys. Daydreaming is so much fun!
- I sometimes hang out and have a lot of fun with peeps even though I don’t collect any quotes.
- I do like the song MMBop by Hanson. It’s very meaningful if you listen to the lyrics.
- I miss a lot of things about college like sleeping later, snow days, and hanging out with Burg people; however I’d rather have the life I have now because it sucked being poor.
- I don’t like to go places with a lot of people. The cruise Bri and I took I was sometimes miserable because there were so many people that were taking up everything to do.
- I don’t use a bed frame. I probably never will again.
- I have to have a TV in my bedroom even though I’ll never watch it. Rooms without TV’s or computers depress me.
- I hate shut doors. It’s probably a childhood issue after my parents divorced. When people stay over, I’ll never have the bedroom door shut. If I had my way, there would be no doors to bedrooms.
- I have OCD about a lot of things.
- Things I would like to collect: glasses, Cuban cigars, trophies, watches, match books, and signs (like my Dad).
- My stripper name is Foxie Roxie.
- I want people to know that they should NOT mess with me. I know people who can kill them/seriously hurt them at my command. I’m 100% serious.
Now that the Bush Presidency is FINALLY over, I thought I’d recap what’s probably the worst mistakes of the past eight years. Reflecting on these mistakes, I sincerely hope we can move past them with an Obama Administration and correct all the blunders that haave occured. It will take a long time but I am confident that our country will transend the past and become the nation we ought to be.
Undoing what Bush has done, some experts say, could take decades. Some of these errors alone may never be corrected. So much damage has been done.
Here are the twenty five things I feel were the worst things that went on during the Bush 43 Administration.
- No Child Left Behind
- Inaction On Illegal Immigration
- Mission Accomplished
- Inaction In Darfur
- Budget Deficits – the souring national debt (now more than $10.6 trillion), taking a surplus and giving the top 10% tax cuts, billions needlessly spent in Iraq for contractors (Halliburton, Blackwater, etc)
- End Of Tariffs – Free Trade which caused a lot of US companies to outsource and send jobs overseas
- Handling Of North Korea – again a little foreign policy could have gone a long way
- Handling Of Iran – the inability to exercise foreign policy, turning our backs, not willing to sit down and talk to other nations
- Katrina
- Valerie Plame Scandal
- Alberto Gonzales Scandal
- Treatment Of Our Veterans
- The Patriot Act – warrantless wiretapping and civil liberties being taken away in the name of terror, spying on American citizens, the shredding of the Constitution (you know, that GD piece of paper)
- Over 150 Signing Statements – more than any other president in history, did a lot of damage and pushed us back in such areas as the enviornment
- Torture – Abu Ghraib, water boarding, violations of the Geneva Convention
- Initiation And Mismanagement Of The Iraq War
- Souring Energy Prices – really has hurt the middle class, a lot of people have not recovered, families suffered
- Bush’s Supreme Court Justice Appointments – probably one of the worst things he has ever done, this country has regressed dramatically
- America’s Image And The Exploitation Of September 11th – after 9/11 the world was behind us but this Administration resorted to scare tactics in order to push its own agenda, we have fallen as a leader in the world, the Bush Administration has used terror and the threat of another 9/11 to scare the American people
- Inaction On The Healthcare Crisis – SCHIP vetoed (one of the most successful programs)
- Lack Of Foresight On The Housing Crisis – a little Government regulation could have gone a long way towards stopping aggressive lending practices
- Nievity On Economic Crisis – statements like “the fundamentals of our economy are strong”, the lack of government regulation and oversight
- Millions Of Jobs Lost
- Lack Of Government Accountability – from war crimes to warrentless wiretapping to the budget this administration has NOT been held accountable
- Inaction Against Global Warming – Kyoto Accord not being signed, editing of scientific documents that prove Global Warming is happening, lying in speeches of how we need to move to alternative energy yet blocking legislation that calls for it
Brian and I are in the process of buying our first house. My father once told me there are a lot of incentives for first time home buyers. After doing hours of research, I find there really aren’t any. There is actually only one we could find that we actually qualify for ($7,500 “loan” that we pay back through taxes). All the rest are for incomes less than what we’re making. Of course, we’re trying to find ones in Maryland and from Montgomery County. We make too much money! We make a little over the MEAN income in MoCo.
It blows my mind. One of the programs can give us a mortgage rate of some 5.5% (fixed). We just got approval from our bank at 4.75% (fixed). Yeah, who would go with that?
My question is, what the hell do these politicians do? They obviously just sit on their asses and not pass things that need to be passed. Or update laws and programs that need to catch up with the times. 5.5% would have been great a few years ago, but now it’s pretty high. All these programs we can’t qualify for because we make too much money, how come they haven’t been updated? Bri and I are a little below middle class. We don’t qualify for anything! Who does? We couldn’t afford a house if we made less. These programs need to be updated. I don’t know anyone who it applies to, they all make too much money! But we don’t make that much, honestly!
The lady who lives below me had her childrens school food benefit (where the state assists in school lunches) taken away from her because she got a little pay raise and now she doesn’t qualify anymore. She can’t afford not to have it.
I just want to know why these programs haven’t been updated for inflation. It took 10 years to increase minimum wage, it took 28 years to increase the FDIC insurance to $250,000. What the hell do these people do who should be passing laws to update these very important programs?