Tuesday, August 12, 2008

Top 3 things I'm ranting about

3. The if you like option- Whether it's Netflix, Amazon.com, or Xbox Live they all tell you what you should like. Unfortunately it makes no sense. Netflix just told me because I like Rocky V, I should like Celion Dion live from Las Vegas. What? After watching the trailer to "Tropic Thunder" Xbox live thinks I would like Nanny Mcphee, Wing Commander, and Six Degrees of seperation. Amazon.com thinks since I enjoyed the TV show Angel I will also like Picket Fences. I just don't understand how they come to the realizations, unless they are simply pushing certain products. In the grand scope of things it's not that big of a deal

2. Michael Phelps- How can I hate on the greatest Olympic Champion of all time. How did he do it? He won in swimming. What's my problem with that? Swimming has so many different events, that it is ridicuolous. There's a breast stroke, a freestyle, backstroke, a medley(where you combine the riduculousness, and relays. Why can't it simply be however you did it you got from one end of the pool to the other faster. Don't you think Carl Lewis could have won the 100m skip, hop, backpeddle, and medely. Simply put Michael Phelps is the greatest swimmer ever, but the greatest Olympian ever? No, he is simply in a sport that awards more medals than any other.

1. President Bush- In an interview with Bob Costas, President Bush said, "I don't think America has problems." In a country with a major recession, a sky rocketing unemployment, a war with no end in sight, a failing educational system, and the highest poverty rate since the Great Depression, our president says there aren't any problems. That is exactly the problem.

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