On the banks of the red cedar.....

Greetings from East Lansing. Just thought I'd sit here before my class at 2:40 and see what's up with the blog. Sara, my dear, you must be keeping up with the news in the states. In case you haven't been I'm on top of it. Other than the devastating travesty that took place in Ann Arbor a week ago (MSU losing to Michigan in basketball) and Phil seeing his shadow (f'in groundhogs), news has been pretty slow. The Alan Greenspan era is officially over as chairmen of the federal reserve. Hopefully this Bernanke character has been taking notes because he's gonna have his hands full. Also, we had the annual Bush "Make democrats and war protesters feel like nazis" speech a.k.a the State of the Union. You probebly have heard or heard about the speech so I won't type my hands off here, but I'll just touch on a few points I thought were funny. First of all Bush starts off his sixth State of the Union by honoring the life of Coretta Scott King (wife of MLK who died earlier), but then turns back into regualar Bush by saying for an astonashing sixth consecutive time "...and the state of our union is strong...." basically a cheap way to get the ball rolling ("the state of our union is weak and divided" wouldn't exactly be a crowd pleaser). He then refers back to 9/11 for all of us that forgot that was a thing that happened (kind of a "they started it" defense). I then figured I could recite the rest of the speech of memory so I switched over to the Pistons game (only to see them lose). After the loss, I decided to lift my spirits and pop a bag of popcorn and finish watchin the speech. I turned it back just in time for the smackdown on the dems: "Hindsight alone is not wisdom, and second-guessing is not a strategy." Needless to say, the democratslooked like they all just recieved a Chuck Norris roundhouse kick to the face.

Love you Sara and everybody,

-J