Due to my pathetic lack of posts lately, I give you two in the same hour!

What’s up with Wilson Betemit? Most of the year he looks like total garbage, then they bring up LaRoche and he starts hitting. All I know is one of them needs to break out and shine.

Speaking of baseball, I’ve been reading about MLB ’07 The Show on PS3. I’m really in a precarious situation. I love my Wii, but it will never have a classic baseball game on it due to the motion controls. My other console is the original xbox, which only has one new baseball offering this year, and it’s probably the last.

As I consider my inevitable purchase of either an Xbox 360 or PS3, the baseball title offerings are a huge priority. Sega has a monopoly on the MLB license, so MLB 2k7 is the only baseball title made by a 3rd party publisher. SCEA, Sony’s publishing house, is exempt from that exclusivity, so they can make their own MLB game. It’s only available for PS3 though. That means Xbox 360 has one game to choose from, and PS3 two games.

Of course the PS3 costs $600 and the game is another $60. There should be a price drop eventually, but the kid in me still gets excited reading about new games even though I don’t have a lot of time to play them. I still need to beat Zelda, and I have Paper Mario on the Gamecube waiting.

I believe the following is a perfect example of why the liberal mindset is so dangerous.

Social programs that are created with the intent of helping people often have the opposite effect. To a liberal that thinks with their emotions the choice is simple: When someone is in need, you give them the resources to fulfill that need. If a person is poor, give them money. If a person is homeless, give them government subsidized housing. If a family can’t afford to feed their children, give them free lunch at school. But is any of this actually helping people? Feeding starving school children couldn’t possibly be bad, could it?

It’s all a matter of motivation and responsibility, which are two things the liberal mental disorder never considers. It is pathetic and disheartening that parents are no longer required to feed their own children. Do you realize the magnitude of that statement? Parents do not have to feed their children because the government will do it for them. How low have we sunk as a society that something as basic as feeding your children is no longer expected of people? If you tell someone you’ll do something for them, they have little motivation to do it for themselves.

"Oh but Mr. Blarg, the poor children are starving because they’re below the poverty line. How can you be so heartless?" School lunches here cost $1.25 a day, and at five days a week, that’s a whopping $6. When I was growing up, buying lunch was a luxury. How much would it cost to bring PB&J everyday? I bet you could get the weekly cost down to $5 if you really tried. But instead, liberals would rather play Santa Clause with other people’s money. You’ve probably paid for a kid’s lunch whose parents drive a leased Navigator. You’ve probably paid for a kid who has cable at home, or Jordan’s on their feet, or an Xbox 360 in their room. Not only have you had to pay for it, but these "needy" people have not had to make the tough decision between lunch for their child and a big screen TV.

What liberals and this mentality have done is excuse people from taking responsibility for their own actions. You no longer have to rise to the occasion, work harder, get an education, make sacrifices, plan for your future, or be responsible. When the government does that for people, the people won’t do that for themselves.

I didn’t post about Winter Session yesterday because I was too busy writing the Clinton post. I apologize to all of you who rushed home to find out what dumb things I was learning only to find no new posts. Yesterday we started presenting our Power Point presentations (yawn). I just presented mine about classifying rational numbers (yawn). Now I’m playing on the internet while people present about the causes of WWII, HIV/Aids, and some guy is going on and on about the senate. Two more days of this madness and it’s over! Then I can start the craziness of student teaching. Does it ever end?

I’ve been reading about EA’s new baseball game that just came out called MVP ’06 NCAA Baseball. It sounds like a solid game, but it’s only out for Xbox and PS2. Seeing as I only own a Gamecube, this makes playing it difficult. At this point I refuse to buy an Xbox or PS2 now that Xbox 360 is out and PS3 is on the horizon. Unfortunately MVP ’06 doesn’t work on Xbox 360, and PS3 is not out, so it looks like I won’t be playing this anytime soon.

For Christmas I bought my brother a copy of A Game of Thrones (only $3.99!). I had told him how cool it was, but I figured if I actually gave him a copy he’d read it, and read it he did. Last night he messaged me saying he’d finished the first book and Sarah bought him the 2nd and 3rd. Finally there is someone else I can share my love of this series with (thanks bro). If you haven’t read this book, you have to give it a shot. If you think reading is a bore, this series could change your whole perspective. I’m a third of the way through book 4, and I look forward to cracking a new fantasy series.

Now a guy is babbling about Trinadad and Tobago. Yawn.

The Xbox 360 was released today. Sadly I don’t care (sorry Mike). I’m afraid I’m getting old, and things like a new console launch aren’t as exciting as they used to be. Other possible explanations are that it costs $400, and the one ad I saw for the new Perfect Dark game wasn’t that impressive. The only game I play anymore is MVP Baseball from last year. Xbox 360 is in HD though, which is way cool. I’ll wait for Mike’s first post about it and see what he thinks.

Oh, and this is the fourth post in a row with a picture! Boy am I spoiling you guys. This picture was again taken from Foxnews. I couldn’t help but notice how very excited the man in this picture is. It looks like the Xbox 360 is actually his biological son whom he has just been reunited with after 18 years lost in the Alps. Definitly a kodak moment.