Well Fox Sports today began to give us the results of the All Star Balloting. Our Family loves Ichiro and it appears he will be on the train to San Francisco. What I cant understand is that our family was able to vote a whopping 25 times. Is this policy in place because of fraud I guess. It seems silly, why not one vote per email address? Then again, why not more leverage to the managers to control who they want. This is the kind of chatter I hear around the house these days and I guess if it were up to me, I would give as much power to fans as possible. With all these scandals I hear about, the fans should have control to keep out or allow in the players who break the rules to the All Star game. And that brings me back to Ichiro. Just look at him! Does he use human growth hormone. I think not. Whenever he is up to bat, I tell my children so they can see what hard work and practice practice practice is all about.

Good Luck at the All Star Game Ichiro!!!!!!!!

I saw in the paper today that Oregon will begin to crackdown on the payday loan industry and I for one am happy about it. Legalized loan sharking, as I call it, is such a fraud to the poor and uneducated. However, even the educated I bet can get consumed by luring idea of getting paid now instead in two weeks when you pay check comes in. Cant you wait. Anyway, its sad to think we need to develop laws to keep payday loan interest rates down so as not to harm people too bad just after we developed laws to make such loans legal. Wow is that ironic!

Look up down the major streets of your town and you will see the store fronts of these lenders. Now watch the comes coming in and look at the people. It saddens me to see a parent walk in while the other parent stays in the car with the kids. Do they know the spiral downward?

Too be continued….

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