Random Thoughts on Various Subjects

1. DALE EARNHARDT, JR.

The time has come to say it. Junior sucks. Period. Nothing more can be said for the guy. As someone bluntly put it, "He's just racing on his daddy's name."

The reality is that if Junior's last name wasn't Earnhardt he would not be in the ride he is now or have the endorsements or anything else. Championships can elude great drivers. Look at Mark Martin. But victories are required. You have to win. Junior doesn't win.

Junior fans could always point to equipment or to Tony Eury as the problem. Those excuses are gone. It all boils down to the fact that Junior can't drive that car. Compare him to a guy like Kyle Busch who can win. No one doubts that Busch will have a championship one day.

The future for Junior will be as a race team owner. JR Motorsports is becoming a great outfit. But he is going nowhere as a driver. He needs to do a gutcheck and decide what he needs to do because he doesn't deserve to drive the 88 car anymore.

2. OBAMA VS. FOX

The Obama White House has lost its mind going after Fox News and declaring that it is not a "news organization." Attacking the media does not sit well with the media and that includes the leftard media. Obama has shit-for-brains and has revealed that he is thinskinned. Remember, Fox News broke the Vin Jones and ACORN stories. This is why Obama is lashing out. He is pissed off. Some of the shit is finally starting to stick. It will only get uglier from here.

3. THE PUBLIC OPTION

Despite the backlash from libertarians and conservatives, I can tell you now that we will get a public option on healthcare. It is going to happen. I don't want it to happen, but it will.

The result of the public option is pretty easy to predict. Businesses will jettison health benefits for employees. They will all be encouraged to enroll in the public plan. Since your tax dollars are going to pay for it, you will enroll in the plan. If you don't enroll in the plan, the government will fine you. One way or another, single payer will become the system we get. Costs will skyrocket from there, and without a market mechanism, government will resort to rationing. Once done, it will never be undone along with Medicare and Social Security and public education and the income tax. Leviathan grows.

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