Friday’s Rambling

To lighten up the mood, let’s take a glance at this week’s news. The President provided us with the insight of just how cat-quick a 62-year-old’s reflexes can be.

Of course, this serves as a reference to the ducking of shoes hurled toward his upper extremity. President “Nike, size 10” learned the infamous move from ducking answers to pertinent questions thrown at him throughout the past eight years.

If the journalist had been of American descent or if the incident occurred in the United States, he would be sitting in a Federal penitentiary waiting trial for attempted shoe assassination charges and facing at least 30 years behind bars. The price he would pay is listening to ye olde George ramble and stumble through his many Presidential speeches and news conferences.

On the other hand, Vice President Dick (I am only a heart attack away from leaving office) Cheney, has decided it was time to “come out of the closet” (in no way a reference to his daughter). During his eight years of public service, V.P. Cheney traveled wherever George sent him and remained low key, except for a slight mishap with a shotgun. Now, especially in the last week, he continues to appear on every news show to extol how all the great decisions, made by this Administration, were sound and wise. Dick undoubtedly will next hit the various talk shows in preparation for his not yet written upcoming book tour.The book will undoubtedly be named "how I made millions of dollars engineering military contracts for Haliburton and Blackwater Security"

Meanwhile, President Elect Obama continues to learn some new dance moves. He spent the week on describing how he, in no way, had any dealings with long-time Chicago Buddy – the great Governor Rod Blagojevich

As a lawyer, Obama already has a majority of the dances memorized. He just needs more pairs of dance shoes and of course practice in front of a mirror.

The Presidential Ball has just begun. It also is being reported President Elect Obama's honeymoon with the American press and the Congress will not last for his entire first year. Apparently, there are a few U.S. Representatives and Senators not quite warm toward Barack’s plans for the Nation’s reconstruction progress. Notice, I was able to sneak in a Lincoln reference?

One last note to end the week – the blog has added a new Team Member with an extensive background in journalism. Hopefully, he will help improve this blogger’s 8th grade writing skills by smoothing the rough edges and pointing out when the hell to use a comma. For those of you, who know my new Senior Editor; please extend a warm and hearty welcome.

The weekend can only serve to relax us all.

NOTE FROM SENIOR EDITOR: Hey, if I can teach an Indian (dot not feather) college student to write newspaper articles in his second language (English), then I think I can help this old fart create masterpieces!