Proposed Soda Tax Inflames Former Punch-Out!! Star

Soda Popinski has become the public face for the soda industry in resisting a proposed tax on soda. It is staggering. The average American consumes about 50 gallons of sugary drinks every year, a significant contribution to obesity in the U.S. Authors of the proposed tax believe it will reduce consumption of soda pop, reducing obesity rates and providing funds to cover obesity related medical costs.

Popinski was recently flown over from Russia in a private jet paid for by Pepsico. The former Punch-Out!! boxing star is attempting to organize 1,000,000 citizens to throw empty aluminum cans and plastic bottles into Boston Harbor late this month. Police have made it clear that anyone throwing cans into the harbor will be cited for littering. Soda Party members have lashed out saying that police threats represent the government's attempts to trample over citizens' rights.

Tea Party Faction Has Unkind Words for Lindsey Graham

You know I try to be pretty diplomatic and give props to people on both sides of the political fence when I think it is deserved. But honestly, you people ("What do you mean by you people?") who don't seem to ever tire of throwing around rocks like "socialist," "communist" or "Hitler" need to listen to yourselves. You are more than a little on the wrong side of history. You are the proverbial syphilis on the baby maker, and not the good kind.

When you guys are calling Lindsey Graham (super-con Senator from South Carolina) a "traitor" or "democrat in drag" because he has teamed up with John Kerry in addressing things like climate, fossil fuel emissions and energy independence, do you guys realize how out there you sound - and we're talking Kuiper Belt level out there? I mean I can go around shouting that the 1990 Broncos were robbed by the refs against the 49ers in Superbowl XXIV (55-10), but me shouting doesn't make it anywhere near reality.


Seriously, this means We the (sane) People need to shout back when we hear this sort of nonsense being spewed. I don't know about you, but I'm embarrassed to have these idiots walking around thinking their nutbar beliefs hold any sort of truth. Let's replace this zealotry with a little common sense.

Here is the two minute youtube link for those willing to ruin their day by watching some of the worst that our citizenry has to offer.

What the Liberal Media Doesn't Tell You

I'm hearing today a crazy story and wondering where the "liberal media" was in reporting this?!

In 1999 a monumental incident happened in Norway that really alters a person's fundamental perceptions about life and death. A skier slid down a mountain and ended up unconscious in a frigid stream. Her friends could not pull her out from the ice with their feeble tools. The decision was made to leave her in the ice and get help. An hour and a half later she was retrieved by a rescue team and her body temperature was 50-some degrees. The skier was warmed up and resuscitation was attempted at the hospital three hours later. Shockingly, the skier's heart pulsed.

After a year of paralysis, the skier is today back skiing and physically okay.

But it really makes you wonder, doesn't it, where the media was 10 years ago in covering this story? I never heard it!

When are people finally going to wake up and take back our country?!

Obama Wins the Gold Cup...Er, Nobel Peace Prize

I heard a good conversation about this on the radio today.

I think just about everyone realizes the awarding of the prize to President Obama wasn’t based just on merit in the same way it has been in other instances in history. I suppose some will cynically see giving the prize to the President as the Nobel committee jerking off Obama.

I prefer to see the Nobel presentation as a statement that the US is trying to live up to an ideal that other countries have looked up to us for (especial since WWI). It's no secret that many other nations aren't real crazy about some very unpopular policies of the Bush Administration.

Maybe it is also a statement that we as voters overcame the obstacle of race when we elected President Obama by a fair margin. I'm not saying that anyone should vote for the black guy just because he's black. But it is still an achievement when you consider our nation is one with a history of slavery, lynchings, civil rights leader assassinations, a disproportionate number of minorities in prison, etc.

Maybe the awarding of the Nobel says our nation is a complicated role model in how blacks, browns, whites, yellows and reds can get along in a melting pot. I think that is something to be proud of, not exploit as a wedge to divide people.

The last caller wrote what I thought was a nice statement: “Can’t we all just be proud as Americans once in a while for something we’ve been given from the world, whether deserved, undeserved…?”