Does anyone make you feel this way? As for the the guitarrist with the blond hair. I think his hair stylist hates him and maybe he doesn't tip him enough.

Someone from up north asked me to post a picture of Florida in February. Here it is.

They strike out like no one's ever seen. In the field or at-bat, they're never in control, and when you say Miami, you're talking toilet bowl...

It is embarrassing to be a Marlins fan. The ownership has disgraced this city and its fanbase. They lied about their finances, said they were in debt and got the City of Miami to fund much of the stadium. In reality, they were making money because of their low payroll and they were receiving money from the luxury tax in baseball. The Marlins got this new stadium, changed their name from the Florida Marlins to the Miami Marlins and got hideous new uniforms that looks like someone puked a rainbow.

The ownership promised the fans when they were lobbying for a new stadium that if taxpayer money were used to fund this new stadium that they would always have a competitive team with a competitive payroll. They did that for half a season last year. But then they traded away Hanley Ramirez and the good free agents that they signed like Jose Reyes and now the line up may be worst than the Expansion 1993 Marlins. Everyone is either untested or 37 years old and their career is on the downturn. They have Stanton, but he's been injured and he wants out at the first opportunity. He was angry after the Marlins traded all their good players away at the end of last season and I can't blame him.

I finally went to the Marlins new stadium in Miami last week. It's nice. It looks kinda UFO-ish. Someone new to the city may call Coast to Coast AM and tell George Noory that a UFO landed in the middle of Miami if they weren't aware that this was just the Marlins new stadium. It has a retractable roof, which is nice, and is almost always down because it is oppressively hot in Miami for most of baseball season. It looks too "Miami-ish" and too "art-deco-ish". I liked what they did with Camden Yards although now the newer stadiums are getting kinda boring because they all look like that, so I guess its good that the Marlins went with different ideas, although some of them may be kinda gaudy.... Eh, I liked Fenway in Boston the best.

At least Miami has the Heat, a team that won 27 games in a row this year, went 66-16, and looks like it will repeat as NBA champs. I think the Heat are a team of destiny this year. Being 66-16 is great, but next year, when LeBron, Wade, and Bosh go for a three-peat, I think they have to have the Chicago Bulls record season of 1998 when they went 72-10 as something to try to accomplish. The Heat need to do their job and win this year first, but this team with LeBron, Wade, and Bosh is so good that aiming for 72 wins is a realistic goal. Maybe next year they can break the consecutive wins record of 33 wins held by the L.A. Lakers. Is there any way that Mickey Arison could buy the Miami Marlins? The Heat have awesome uniforms, with the red and the black and the basketball on fire, although 9 different jerseys may be too many.

I have not made many political posts on live journal this year and it is 2012, a Presidential Election year. There are some issues that the politicians of both major political parties have dropped the ball on and it will negatively impact my generation, "The Millenials".

The $16 trillion deficit is a huge problem my generation will face. The politicians of both parties are being selfish by leasing our future to buy themselves votes from parasites who don't want to work. These politicians need to drastically cut spending for government programs that aren't helping people and have no return on their money. Someone needs to lock Republicans and Democrats in a room until they can agree on a way to balance the budget and reduce the national debt. Maybe play Nickelback on full blast inside the room to encourage them to finish faster.

Education is a huge problem as well. Our schools are falling apart and other countries that we thought were "third world" are surpassing us in educational rankings. That isn't the only problem. The way that we are targeting our higher education spending is poor because there is no targeting. We are giving student loans and grants to people to be Sociology or "Womyn's Studies" majors. These people are acquiring $200,000 in debt and they can't get a decent job to pay back their student loans. The ones that can't get jobs become "Occupy bums".

There are 3 million jobs that are unfilled. The problem with that is that we don't have enough people with the training to take those jobs because they are voc tech jobs like plumbers, electricians, and computer technicians. If we targeted educational spending into vocational tech schools and encouraged people to go to those schools who were interested in those topics as opposed to shuffling everyone into colleges where they are brainwashed into joining the Occupy movement by leftist professors, we would have 3 million less unemployed people out there. President Obama and Former President Clinton mentioned a lot about increasing educational spending, which sounds great on the surface, but these people are ignoring the fact that we have more educated people than before but there aren't jobs available for "Womyn's Studies" majors that pay well. Its stupid to borrow more money from China and have these young people go into debt to study majors that are not in demand, and then end up living in their childhood bedroom because they can't find a decent job with a living wage. We need to target our educational spending into majors like business, math, or anything involving science, technology, or computers, along with voc tech careers like plumbing and electricians so that these young people can have well-paying jobs and we can get our economy back on track.

Isaac, Isaac, go away
Never come back any other day!

Vacation can't come soon enough! I'm leaving on either Monday night or Tuesday morning assuming that Isaac behaves or doesn't do too much. I've had enough of this place.

My 2012 Eleciton Preduction is as followed:

Mitt Romney will defeat Barack Obama by 5-8 points. The popular vote will probably be something like 54-46 or 52-47 depending on if there are any third party candidates.

Romney will get about 330 electoral votes, conservatively speaking. He will win almost all of the Bush 2000 and '04 map, although I'm unsure about New Mexico because of demographic changes. He's going to win states that Republicans haven't won in 20 years like Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, and Minnesota. He may even win a state that is a complete surprise like Oregon where Obama's popularity is low.

Voters who normally shy away from voting for Republicans because of social issues like abortion and gays will hold their nose to vote for Romney because 1) they are tired of Obama's crap and incompetence and 2) Romney isn't ideologically driven and seems more like a results-oriented businessman who makes judgements based on facts and not emotions.

Obama has got to go. We can't take four more years of this. We did not get the change we were hoping for. High gas prices; high long-term unemployment; high deficits; Fast and Furious; billion dollar vacations to places like India and Brazil; and half a billion dollar loans to bankrupt companies like Solyndra which gave to his campaign is not the change we were hoping for when we elected him four years ago. Romney, with his business experience and his analytical nature is what we need in the White House at the moment.

Remember. When your neighbor loses his job, we are in a recession. When you lose your job, we have a depression. After Obama loses his job, we will have a recovery.

Before the series between the Heat and the Oklahoma THunder started, I joking ly said, "I think the Heat will lose the first game, everyone will say that they neeed to fire Spolstra, break up the big 3, bench Bosh, trade Wade, and so forth, then the Heat would win the next 4 and win in 5." I said this AS A JOKE. It happened.

King James has his title. All the naysayers and haters have been quieted. What can they say? What can they criticize him for? It took 5 games to beat the Thunder instead of 4? He didn't score 100 points in a game? He should have taken on the Oklahoma Thunder, himself, one-on-five? Its something how people waste so much of their time and energy hating someone who has never done anything wrong or broken the law. LeBron James has been immature and made some missteps in the past, but that was probably more his immaturity. It seems like, after this season, he has greatly matured and that he has learned from his mistakes in the past.

Its funny. When I talk about the future AS A JOKE, IT HAPPENS!!!

October 2000 (after I received my absentee ballot): I saw that it was a punch hole ballot and said ,"One of these days, this ballot is going to cost someone an election". Then of coruse, as everyone knows it, we had a 36 day recount in Florida and Bush won. I reluctantly punched Hole #2 for Bush; I really wanted McCain.

So yes, the Heat won. Now I kinda have "We Are the Champions" by Queen stuck in my head. Its very representative of what happened with the Heat this year.

THe victory parade is on Monday. I believe it starts from Calle Ocho, goes to Biscayne (US1) and ends at the American Airlines Arena.

Does anyone do it? Now that I got paid on Friday, I'm going to try and see how it goes for this last half of May.

1. Home Office Remodel. I'm neutral there. A multi purpose room that you could turn into a hobby room or extra bedroom isn't bad.

2. Backup Power Generator. If you live in a hurricane zone like South Florida, $15,000 is probably a small price to pay to have power while everyone else is in the dark. That's probably something I would do if I had a house and had the money. Other places, I don't know if its as necessary unless you get really bad snow storms that are comparable to hurricanes.

3. Sunroom Addition. I agree. Its stupid unless you're really rich and/or in an upscale neighborhood where people have a lot of money to piss away. In South Florida, its hot enough already without having a room that's jsut going to bring in more heat.

4. Upscale master suite addition. Probably stupid and wasteful too unless you have the money to piss away. Although one of those sleep number beds might be nice.

5. Bathroom Addition. Depending on where it is and if its a half or full bath, having an extra bathroom probably isn't a bad idea. Some older houses have only one bathroom and if everyone has to shower and/or use the bathroom at the same time, it might cause some conflict.

6. Upscale Garage Addition. Probably also stupid. Another stupid thing is that people store useless crap they don't use anymore in the garage while they keep their second most valuable possession, (in most cases) their car, outside to the elements and potential vandals or theives.

I saved you time from reading the article, but if you'd like to its below the link...

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