What a morning.  I'm sitting on a comfy chair in front of the tv awaiting the kick off of the Vikings game with my computer on my lap and my fantasy football line up dialed up and ready to kick some butt! ...well, my quarter back, Michael Vick, sounds like he hit his head again and is out for the game.  I think I'll go back to my writing and start some laundry and vacuum on the next commercial. 

Since my good attitude just plumetted, I'll tell you about the newspaper article I read this morning.  I don't usually read the paper, because it makes me mad, but I keep picking it up now and then and it happened again.  On the front page was an article about Jim Oberstar's bill a few years back which gave schools all around the country money for sidewalks and other things that would make it easier for kids to walk to school, thus helping to eliminate childhood obesity.  ...what???  The writer of the article interviewed parents at Bailey Elementary School and asked why such a high percentage of kids are driven to school rather than walk.  One parent mentioned that they worried about their kid getting abducted.  Where is this article going?  No one mentioned that Bailey road is a fifty five mile an hour highway and no one would let their third grader navigate their way through rush hour traffic.  The only elementary school in Woodbury set up for walkers is Stonemill Farms where the Stepford Wives can send their children to school, the pool, hockey rink or movie theater without any worries. 

The problem is why does one person in politics get to spend 83 million of our hard earned dollars to stamp out obesity by giving schools money so kids will walk???  Stupid!  I don't know exactly why my kids don't have a weight problem.  Not only have they never walked to school, their five year old bikes look brand new!  Genetics?  Lack of psychological shame?  I let them eat all the sugar they want and we never eat together.  I think that 83 million dollars would have been better off in the pockets of the people who earned it.  Why do we keep electing people who tell us how THEY are going to spend OUR money?   Ok, I know I'm just venting because I'm losing right now in fantasy football and I hate losing, but my point is still relavent and I don't have anything to do but sit here and wait for the scores to come in.  I need to go make an omlette.  Johnny has a game today.  THAT is something to look forward to!