Bacon in a can! WANT! You can already get ready-to-eat bacon in vacuum-packs which are much easier to store than cans. But… cans can last for ten years! Nevertheless… Tactical Bacon. Tac Bac. That’s basically impossible for me to pass up.
You can get it over at ThinkGeek. Buy me some too.
Speaking of food, the folks over at Mint.com have a clever little chart showing the second quarter reversal of a five month downward trend in dining out. The chart is based on aggregate information from over 1 million Mint.com users. Neat!
In other quickies, Cheney is still a lying liar. Every time the man opens his mouth he admits to war crimes… yet he’s a free man. President Clinton’s marital indiscretions brought DC to a screeching halt, but we can’t just take a tiny little peek into the crimes admitted to by the closest we have to a super-villain? I don’t think I’ll ever understand it.
We did it. We seriously did it. The reality of that is still setting in. For a few weeks I’ve been cautiously optimistic. I believed it would happen but there was still a tension when it came to it actually happening. I am not sure I even fully understand the importance of what America just accomplished. Barriers shattered. Lives changed. Not just here but all over the world. Children woke up this morning believing they could honestly be whatever they want to be, even President; Children that had no real belief in that yesterday. A man raised by a single mother and his grandparents, who lived on food stamps at one point, who rejected the high-paying jobs at Wall Street to become a community organizer on the south side of Chicago has risen to the highest office in the land. A long struggle for the African-American community has produced what may be written to be it’s largest victory to date. As I’ve seen on signs recently; “Rosa sat so Martin could walk. Martin walked so Barack could run. Barack ran so our children can fly.”
I know that a lot has been and will be said about the power of this election for the African-American community. I don’t think I’m even capable of truly understanding what it means for a man like Jesse Jackson who was there when Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was killed. But I do know that for the people of all races gathered in impromptu street parties all across the country, and revelers around the world, this is bigger than race. Much bigger. This is about a nation making a clear choice between the status quo and a more progressive path. It’s about fear and doubt being defeated soundly by hope. It’s about validating President-Elect Obama’s statement that “nothing can stand in the way of the power of millions of voices calling for change.”
I also see it as at least a small defeat for negative campaigning. America looked at all of the mud and slime and lies that were thrown at Barack Obama and rejected every bit of it. Not just by a slim margin. Resoundingly. We have spoken with a clear voice saying, “Enough is enough!”
I can’t wait for this thing to start the actual collisions. I hear that should start happening in late October. All the end-of-the-world nutjobs will just have to wait to see if we’re all vaporized. It was interesting however, that my Twitter updates this morning telling me the beams were successful were followed almost immediately by Twitter updates about earthquakes in Iran, wildfires in Mozambique and Swaziland, and a predicted recession in the United Kingdom, Germany and Spain.
It’s important that people understand that opening up these areas to production will do little to nothing to reduce our gas prices, and we’re talking several years down the line regardless. The oil companies already have access to acres and acres of drillable land and sea that they aren’t using. Why not force them to produce on those areas if we’re so concerned about drilling “now” and “here.”
We need more effort towards renewable energy. Let’s see the GOP stage a congressional sit-in for that one. I’m sure their buddies at ExxonMobil should have no problem with that. I mean they want to stop the “war on the poor,” right?
More than that, we need leaders who will lead. America has spent too much time being told what it needs to hear and misled down these dangerous paths… How about a little truth in government for a change?
Bacon in a can! WANT! You can already get ready-to-eat bacon in vacuum-packs which are much easier to store than cans. But… cans can last for ten years! Nevertheless… Tactical Bacon. Tac Bac. That’s basically impossible for me to pass up.
