So our fearless leader has vetoed a bill that would fund insurance coverage for an additional 4 million children. This plans covers families that make too much for medicaid, but make too little to pay for private insurance. His reasoning, it is getting to close to government funded health insurance and that families will drop private coverage in order to get the free coverage. Well duh senior rich guy, never had to scrape together five bucks to feed your family guy. Does anyone in Washington know how hard it is to make ends meet in middle america? Oh wait, they are too busy filling their fat wallets with lobbist perks from the private drug companies and health insurance companies. If you are going to veto this bill, then pass legislation that will make private insurance affordable for everyday individuals like me. Universal coverage is not the solution I feel. I support it more than I support our current system however. If I had a kid right now, I would have to pay 600 a month in health insurance. Does that sound reasonable to anyone? Except maybe Olbermann.

So i am taking a macroeconomics course right now. One of the main points of economics is cost v. beneift. What you give up to obtain something else is the opportunity cost of that item. If you want to go to the movies, you have to give up either spending time with your family or the money it costs. When determining this, you must decide if the benefit you receive is worth the cost of the things you are giving up.

This has made me think about playing baseball. On the outside, signing a contract, getting paid to play baseball, do something you love etc is all benefit and no cost. I will disagree with this statement everytime. Now I understand I was lucky, got to do something I love etc, but the cost of acheiving this dream well surpassed the benefit. When I started I was 23 and when I stopped I was 27. During this time I was making anywhere from 800-1000 a month and when the season was over, I had a hard time trying to find a job and workout at the same time.

So there I was, a college grad with 40,000 in student loans and living below poverty level. Whereas my friends were able to get jobs right away, start paying off their debt and start down the road to financial freedom. I am 30 and have only had a real job for 2 years, whereas my friends have had real jobs for 7 years. Not hard to figure out who wins financially and long term with that one.

Second, playing baseball totally affected by credit history. Imagine making 800 a month, paying 300 in rent and trying to eat and having 300 a month payments in student loans. Now I was able to defer most of my loans, but one would not work with me any longer and I was forced to do the worst thing you can possibly do. So Wells Fargo can go to hell. Notwithstanding that, the loans i deferred accrued interest and now instead of being 5000 are 8000. Totally worth playing baseball for?

So here I set, ready to start a family and if I had been not good at baseball, probably would be a better situation. The cost of playing baseball far outweighed any benefit I received from it.

So things are pretty poopsville around Tampa, Minnesota and the world for that matter, so I have decided to review a cd. If you don’t like it, I don’t care. I will get back to my far left wing rants someday, I promise. I know how much everyone enjoys listening to my totally onesided posts.

Check out this column that I found on ESPN. I couldn’t agree more with number 40 on the list. Minnesota does have a great tradition and excitement that follows the amateur baseball scene. I think they forgot beer-pong tournaments at 5D though.

101 things all sports fans must experience before they die

So our valiant leader has vetoed a bill to lift the federal ban on stem cell research. i.e. new stem cells from new embryos. I am so tired of theology playing a part in politics. I don’t care if our nation was found on christian principles. We do not live up to them so why do we pick and choose what ones to abide by. Bush should care less about embryos that technically not really living and more about the millions of people in the world that are really struggling because of his policies. Oh and if you see a Pro Life license plate, pleae rear end the car for

So apparently, in the State of Florida, if you are a developer and you run across some turtles in their burrows, by law, you are allowed to bury them alive, if you donate money to the turtle wildlife refuge fund. ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME. What makes this worse is that turtles have a slow metabolic rate, so they suffocate very slowly. If you need any proof that man kind needs a good ass raping, this is your proof.

Try this for a month.  Put any Daphne Loves Derby cd on your ipod.  I guarantee that if you put it on random, the Daphne songs will hijack your ipod and one song will play every other song.  It is not urban legend, it is a fact.  Good luck and watch out for the “winter

Can someone please tell me why anyone in this country is still buying Citgo gasoline? I been boycotting the 7/11s etc for over two years now and have only stopped when i was about to run out of gas. I dont want to hurt the owners of those establishments, so please go in and buy beer and snacks from them, they make more money off that anyways. If you are still pulling into the pumps that read Citgo, you should be ashamed of