Rewriteable history

Man, my motivation has been lacking severely recently. I have been thinking of things I would like to blog about, but I just can't put them together in any sort of coherent fashion. With that in mind, I am going to attempt this anyway and just hope for the best.

Let's do the easy stuff first and just do the fantasy hockey team, which went 6-3-1 last week, so I still have the final playoff spot locked down, and quite comfortable I might add, as I now have a 19pt lead over 7th place, and given the most that can be gained in any week is 20 pts and that would require the 7th place team going undefeated and me going winless, I am liking my position. Even better is the fact that 3rd place is only 6pts ahead of me, so the 3rd-6th spots are all very much bunched together with just 4 weeks left in the regular season. last week marked the 6th straight week where I finished at .500 or better and now for the season my record stands at 88-75-27.

My grabbing of points from Coke and Pepsi is starting to pay off as well. One of the Coke prizes this month is Rhapsody downloads for just 15 points each. Given I already have a Rhapsody account, I didn't have to down;load any software, I just used some of the points I have collected to purchase another 6 songs, 2 of which I have cashed in so far, buying "Can't Get There From Here" by REM and "Icky Thump" by The White Stripes. The only problem I had was that when I opened Rhapsody to grab my songs, all of my older songs I had purchased were gone, thankfully they offer the ability to redownload them for free up to three times, so I spent part of my time last night rebuilding my music library. I am not sure why they disappeared, it may have been part of my blue screen of death crap I went through last weekend, or it may have been my spyware program thinking they were stuff to be removed, in any event I managed to fix the problem.

While rebuilding my library, I got to thinking about rewriting history. I have the NAACP to thank for this, as this past week, they asked that the Democratic party seat the Michigan and Florida delegations at the upcoming Democratic Convention in Denver. For those that are unsure of what I speak, allow me to elaborate just a little. Most of you know that there is a very competitive race taking place for the Democratic nomination to run for President of the United States this fall between Senators Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama, with Obama holding a slight lead in delegates to this point. The states of Michigan and Florida have both already held their primaries, won by Senator Clinton, but because they moved their primaries up in the calendar year without the approval of the Democratic National Committee, the DNC has stripped those two states of their delegates, so while Senator Clinton won them, she received no delegates for the victories. Michigan was an odd case in that most of the contenders names were not even on the ballot, only Hillary Clinton and Dennis Kucinich's names were on it, the remaining candidates had their names removed. Florida had all of names of the candidates on the ballot, so everyone there has a fair shot at winning the primary. Worse the primary date was moved up in Florida, not be Democrats, but by a state legislature that is a majority Republican and a governor that is also a Republican. Now many members of the Democratic party said that in the 2000 election, voters were disenfranchised (an argument I disagreed with and still do) but I would ask how is this any different? The party is choosing not to recognize the wishes of the Florida voters, for an action, the moving of the primary date, which they had little or nothing to do with. It would seem to some in my party that disenfranchising voters is okay, as long as you get the result you want. I grant the lack of names on the ballot in Michigan creates a problem that can't be easily addressed, but in Florida all of the names appeared on the ballot, not of the candidates campaigned there, as they all agreed to, and yet, like many places this year, the Florida primary had a record turnout on the Democratic side, and the party just chooses to ignore their wishes.

I am an Asshat behind, because the Asshat this week is one that I didn't really want to type, because by and large, I like the organization, but still the Asshat award this week goes to the National Hockey League, which opted to continue a hockey game after a player, Richard Zednik, nearly died on the ice. What happened was that Zednik caught a skate blade in the neck, which cut his carotid artery, leaving him gushing blood on the ice almost as soon as he was struck and leaving both benches and the crowd visibly shaken. At this point, stopping the game and picking it up at a later date would have been a practical solution, instead the NHL told the to finish the game. It was a classless move and most definitely Asshat worthy. Since there is video evidence, I will supply it, but be forewarned, it is not for the faint of heart.

From the bad to the good, I noticed a number of Valentine's Day posts through the course of last week. Me being of the single sort, it is a day that is a wash for me, no different than any other day. That being said, one post stuck out for me, and I have been known to plug the fine works of others on the friends list, so without further adieu, here is Spy's Valentine's Day post.

I would like to thank everyone for not taking me up on last week's offer to mug me, though there are still plenty of Mondays left in the string, so I will look over my shoulder this Monday, just in case.

I did complete the Pogo badges last week and picked up a couple of Game Award badges as well, levels 30 in Kenopop and 20 in Quick Quack, and since I was bored I bought some gems to work on my Mix and Match 2 Album, and added badges in World Class Solitaire, Ride the Tide, Lottso and Hog Heaven Slots. I have two of the three badges this week, in Perfect Pair Solitaire, and another Casino Island Blackjack badge (get blackjack 15 times) and I did one more out of my premium album in Sweet Tooth 2 (5 spins of exactly 150 tokens). The only one I haven't completed is Hearts, which is a game I hate to begin with and worse is that you don't win tokens playing it.

Oh well, think I a gonna scoot, can't think of anything else worth typing.