Checking In

It has been a few days since I posted so I thought I would check in. A busy few days at that! My wife and I adopted an eight year old English Setter today. She has quite an interesting history. We found her up in the Portland area where she had come from Texas, though she is originally from Washington. She was a field trial dog and also was bred several times, but now she has come to Winters Hill to retire. She seems like a very sweet old Setter and hopefully she will fit right in. I believe our home will be a nice quiet place for her to live out her remaining years.

In other news, President Obama has been travelling around the globe, "spiking the football," about the one year anniversary of the killing of OBL. He has received harsh criticism from Republican circles (Predictably.), but honestly who cares? I could care less either way. He had OBL holed up in some shit hole Pakistani suburb and had been watching him for months, of course he was going to pull the trigger. As for the gloating, come on, would we expect differently from a politician? Do people really believe that someone like George W. Bush wouldn't be gloating about killing Bin Laden?! If Bush had gotten Bin Laden at Tora Bora we would have seen Bush/Cheney 04' campaign posters plastered with images of OBL's decapitated corpse. Instead of the "Mission Accomplished" banner on the aircraft carrier we would have seen Osama's body hanging upside down. I digress...But you get the point. Its politics, anything goes.

That being said, do you really think any of this is really going to have any influence on the election? I sure don't. Its just noise.

In other news, did anyone catch the Taylor Swift boob job rumor? It fizzled quickly, but was funny while it lasted. I think that Taylor Swift is talented (In a weird way. She is talented in that she knows how to write songs that girls/women ages 13-30 can relate too. Not that she has an amazing voice.), but sex appeal really isn't a big part of her appeal IMO. She is definitely not hideous, but from a career stand point the boob job would not have made much sense. Good to see that it appears TS still has at least one thing in common with the Great Plains.

On that note...Until next time.