JZeller

Frank Rich of the New York Times paints an amazing picture of the Presidential campaign as it is today.

How Obama Became Acting President

So I was looking at the lame stories on digg and came across this and since I know at least one of you is from California is this really the way Californians see America? It looks like someone spent 5 minutes in Photoshop. Haha!

Head on over to the Projects page and download the JZeller.org dashboard widget! Hopefully it will soon be available on Apple’s download page as well.

Just another quick FYI:

I know I said I wasn’t going to be posting political comments, but this one stems from another topic. I recently read an article titles “Let’s let go of reverse sexism” on CNN. I just wanted to point out that there is no such thing as reverse sexism. Sexism is sexism and it goes both ways. Similarly reverse racism does not exist for that exact same reason.

Just an FYI:

I will be taking a break from political commentary for a while and blogging about other things. I know you are all disappointed, but its what I am going to do.

Let me start by saying that during the primaries I had a less that respectful opinion of Senator Clinton, however, I feel that this is just the nature of the primary season. People choose their candidate and stick with that candidate through thick and thin and this is exactly what I have done. Now that heads are beginning to cool and the Democratic party is working to unite once again I think the negatives of both Senator Clinton and Senator Oboama will fade to make way for a more unified Democratic party.

My mother raised me to be a Democrat and as I grew up I never really acknowledged that often calling myself an Independent or having no ties to a political party. Today I am proud to say that I am a Democrat and a very proud Democrat. Only the Democratic party can bring out two candidates that are groundbreaking and offer a chance at making history. This election we as Democrats have made history and will continue making history all the way to the White House.

Now that the race is over and Barack Obama has won the nomination I would like to give my tremendous respect to Senator Clinton and the entire Clinton family. They have played a key piece in the Democratic party for the past 15+ years. Today she threw her full support behind Barack Obama in an awesome speech. One of the other things I feel that she and Obama have done is point out where the Democratic nomination process needs revision because most Democratic nomination processes have not gone this long. Anyway now I am rambling, so I am going to go ahead and post this sucker.

Thank You Hillary Clinton!

Yes We Can!

Tonight, after fifty-four hard-fought contests, our primary season has finally come to an end.

Sixteen months have passed since we first stood together on the steps of the Old State Capitol in Springfield, Illinois. Thousands of miles have been traveled. Millions of voices have been heard. And because of what you said – because you decided that change must come to Washington; because you believed that this year must be different than all the rest; because you chose to listen not to your doubts or your fears but to your greatest hopes and highest aspirations, tonight we mark the end of one historic journey with the beginning of another – a journey that will bring a new and better day to America. Tonight, I can stand before you and say that I will be the Democratic nominee for President of the United States.

I want to thank every American who stood with us over the course of this campaign – through the good days and the bad; from the snows of Cedar Rapids to the sunshine of Sioux Falls. And tonight I also want to thank the men and woman who took this journey with me as fellow candidates for President.

At this defining moment for our nation, we should be proud that our party put forth one of the most talented, qualified field of individuals ever to run for this office. I have not just competed with them as rivals, I have learned from them as friends, as public servants, and as patriots who love America and are willing to work tirelessly to make this country better. They are leaders of this party, and leaders that America will turn to for years to come.

Well as some of you know when I was younger I had open heart surgery to correct a hole in between the chambers of my heart there were also some things like arteries in the wrong place and what not. I had another surgery while I was in 6th grade to replace the homografts (not that kind of homo for those of you with dirty minds) they had put in when I was younger as they had become hard and were no longer pumping blood nearly as well as they should. They also put in larger homografts, so that as I grew (you know, puberty) all would be good. Anyway, I just figured I would give a brief history so the rest of this post makes sense.

Well part of the deal with this is that every year I have to go see my Cardiologist down at Children’s Heart Clinic in Minneapolis and tomorrow is the day. Last year my checkup went great and everything looked good except I was put on medicine as preventative measure, which I of course am all for. Anything that helps me helps me out in the long run I am all for. The funny thing is that for the most part these appointments go very well and I know this one will probably go equally as well, but whenever one of these appointments come up I can’t help but worry. All the what-ifs come flying into my head and just worry me more.

The general procedure for the appointments usually starts with an EKG/ECG followed by a chest x-ray. After the x-ray I am put in a room to wait for the doctor and usually he looks at the x-ray before coming into the room. He sits down and talks to myself and family that goes with me about what he sees in the x-ray and the EKG/ECG followed by listening to my heart and all that basic stuff. Every couple of years an echocardiogram is done, which is basically an ultrasound of the heart. They use it to measure the size of the heart chambers, blood flow through the heart, and how well the chambers of the heart are working. I’m sure one will be done this year as I am due. Really though in the grand scheme of things these appointments are very basic and unless something stands out as abnormal I am free to go for another year.

I guess I am most likely worried over nothing, but I think it just kind of goes with the territory. At the same time I am confident that everything should be A-ok.

Hey, on a side note I get to miss a Tech Para meeting for this, so all is good!