Incredible!

Hey folks, welcome to another installment of my lovely and riveting blog. (Bet you'd never hear those words together in a sentence...errr...that's "lovely" and "riveting," not "to" and "and.")

Well, I took the truck in to the shop yesterday morning. The thing had been shaking any time I turned left for the last month or so. I took it in a while ago but they couldn't figure out what was wrong so I drove it some more to figure out how to make it all the time. Now that I could get it to shake whenever I wanted, I took it back in. As luck would have it, the power steering was going out so it needs a new rack and pinion system. Grand. Doesn't sound cheap, does it? Well, it's not. :(

The day ended a bit better than it had been going, though. Liz and I went out to see "The Incredibles" last night. Awesome flick. Just hilarious. My personal favorite was Mr. Incredible, fighting with his wife, Elastigirl, about how to get downtown while hurtling along at 120 mph in a van on the interstate. So true, so true. Anyway, if you get a chance to see this one, it's worth the overpriced movie ticket and the popcorn seeds stuck in your teeth for the next 4 hours.

Something else that is entirely too true, although it shouldn't be, is the latest issue of The Onion. For those of you that don't know what The Onion is (that would probably be just my mom, but in case Nate has gone into a mental lapse of drastic proportions, this might be a good refresher), the Onion is a satiristic newspaper which I believe is based in Madison, but I'm probably wrong about that. Anyway, the article "Nation's Poor Win Election For Nation's Rich" seems entirely too true to be in The Onion. *sigh*

Besides that, anyone think this whole offensive into Fallujah is just ridiculous? What exactly are they trying to accomplish? Originally, the plan had been to send in 10,000 US troops along with 2,000 Iraqi troops to root out 5,000 to 6,000 insurgents. However, the latest reports say that there are only 1,200 to 3,000 insurgents in the city and the one they really want to catch, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, has probably already left. I wonder why that is? Maybe it's because the plans for an offensive have been on the news for the last 3 weeks! Any Iraqi with half a brain would have left the city knowing that 12,000 troops were moving in - we're not talking about the Alamo here, folks - these are folks that want to shoot at you from behind civilians, not stand and fight an overwhelming force.

Honestly, I think Bush decided that he needed another decisive victory to garner support so he told everyone, "Just go bang on the garbage cans real loud until everyone leaves and then we'll waltz in, there won't be many casualties, take the city, and we'll be great military geniuses. Woohoo! ...mmmm....Doughnuts.... Then, when these folks crop up elsewhere, we'll just do it all over again and we'll be perpetual heroes without ever accomplishing anything!"

Yeah, so I'm probably quite off-base, but that's just what I think of the whole mess. And, since this is my blog, I guess I can spout off about whatever I want, including the utter dominance of 5'10" Drew Brees.

Anyway, that's enough of that. I'm outta here.

Corey