Last game of the season and Aidan gets his first touchdown. They call him “Crazy Legs” because they are soooo long but once he gets them moving he’s pretty dang fast. He played on the line most of the season but got to run a center sneak once. It was the third quarter and neither team has scored. It’s a defensive clinic out on the mighty flag football field and no one can move the ball. Zach finally breaks free and gets just past midfield. The next play I see Aidan on the line through my camera and decide to just snap a shot of him blocking. Before I know it Crazy Legs Hamilton is streaking down the middle of the field. Coach called a trick play where the QB hands off to the tackle….40 yards later my buddy is beaming from ear to ear and I am beside myself with excitement! What a fun moment. What a lucky time to snap a photo too…..

Tonight I am proud to be an American. I don’t see eye-to-eye with Barack Obama on all the issues but I think his winning this election will be good for the United States. I am not one of those that see a Democrat in the White House as impending doom. I look at tonight and see how far we have come in this country with race relations and it makes me very proud.

America needs two parties…it is part of what keeps us balanced. For me this is a cyclical change that is not necessarily bad. I know there are those out there that think America would be just fine with a Republican in the White House forever. There are Democrats that probably think along the same lines. It wouldn’t work. So, though you may be hurt because John McCain lost, do not fret. This is America and we need to give our new Commander in Chief a fair chance to lead us.

“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.”

Tonight we are closer than ever to living up to the above sentence from the Declaration of Independence.

Obama just came on stage and said, “Is there anyone out there who still thinks that all things are not possible?”

The American financial markets are in deep doo doo and our government has come up with brilliant plan to bail us out of this crisis. While I think this will be a positive move in that it will put a halt to panic and thus more downward spiraling, I also can’t help but think how it will affect us in the long run. What will this mean to the taxpayer?

In everything I have read so far no one knows how this will impact taxpayers. The powers that be say it shouldn’t affect us or doesn’t have to affect us but there are no guarantees. I don’t feel sorry for any of these guys and I don’t really feel sorry for the consumer that took on a loan for a house that was more than double what they could afford. When are we going to stop bailing out stupidity? You don’t see anyone bailing out people that took on a car payment that they couldn’t afford. The repo man takes it back and thats that! Since it’s a “home” and a family lives there both parties jump on that hot button and say we have to help these poor souls that were tricked by the mean old mortgage companies. Bullshit. Take responsibility for your life. Live within your means. Quit blaming someone else for your problems. AND quit bailing people out constantly at the expense of those of us that know how to use a calculator.

All those tax cuts you hear both candidates talking about you can kiss goodbye. Oh, they will keep saying that the tax cuts are coming until one of them is elected and they see what kind of mess this bail out creates. Remember all those Democratic representatives that promised we would get out of Iraq right now if they were elected? Now they run the joint and where are the troops….still in Iraq.

Where is the accountability for these CEOs that let this thing get out of hand? Where is the accountability for the consumer that exorcised bad judgment? Our elected officials want to make sure no one gets kicked out of their home. Maybe I should just stop paying my mortgage since the government is going to be picking up the tab. Now we can afford that swimming pool we have been dreaming about.

I wonder how all of this is really going to shakeout? My money is on tax increases for all of us.