Man Month and Inauguration

Man month has begun and it is all out. The no shave started sharp on the 1st of January and will continue. Here at the pentadude there is plenty of eating meat, doing pushups, and just growling. It is awesome. The goal of man month? To Reject all forms of Feminization in our Manlyness.

A good way to meet up in the middle mark and size up our beards is MLK weekend (or I like to call it MiLK weekend) for the Men`s winter cabin trip. We go into the middle of some woods in the snow with UCO dudes from all over Michigan and just hang out. Of course the historical things are the massive football game, eating manly stew, playing card games and dice games, and just being men. It is sweet.

I had tons of fun playing this new game called Settlers of Catan, which little did I know would become an instant addiction to my room. It was good seeing some good guys from lansing and we ahd a lot of fun trying to get our cars out of the snow.


Then of course, the big anticipation here in Ann Arbor was the inaguration of Barak Obama. People were going nuts here and like almost everything stood still. I saw the inauguration, and I love speeches, and although it was a fairly decent one, I dont think it cracked the top 10. The thing that I noticed most was this was not a big deal because of this liberal man was becoming president and he was going to change everything. It was historical because this man who had black and white parents was the first president with black blood to take office. That was it. The whole importance was the black berrier that was deminished. I think people often overlook on his actual policies because he is black. I think it is great that he is the first black president, but people all over th enation overlooked what the man`s policies are. That was displayed 3 days after he entered office when he passed a bill to allow money to go to places over seas like planned parent hood that offer constraceptives and abrotions. See what the Vatican thinks about it.

What do you guys think about his inauguration? What about the bill? Think Man Month is pretty cool? You do, I can see it in your eyes! Tell me what you think! and I will write soon!

Nov. 4 ...and President Obama

Well this voting stuff was getting old. Obama is so suppported here. People think that Bush is an evil tyrant and they blame everything on the man. Even though I agree Bush has made some errors I do not beleive one should hate a man, especially someone in that sort of office, in which we should respect him for who he is and then disagree with his policies. Anyhow, people want notthing to do with the republican party here in South MIchigan because republican smells like Bush and Bush is evil, so therefore lets get as liberal as possible...which equals to Obama. There are Obama signs everywhere. All over the bathroom, the hallways, the elevators, the class roms, the polls and signs around ampus. Its nuts. Youd think he was a dictator and puting his image all over the world. Its somewhat humorus but it gets old very fast. Actually, I did see one McCain Paline poster, but it was only the size of an index card, and it was in the urinal. SO I dont know if that is to promote him in a place that is going to be extremely visible in the male domaine, or if people just want to piss on them and feel better about themselves. Either way, that is the only McCain poster I have seen.

SO Today is Tuesday, November 4th, 2008. It is election day. People around here have been showing 8.04.08 and 1.20.09 around forever. The first is today, the election day. The second is the last day George W. Bush will serve as president.

These are 2 videos from the MIchigan Daily, the newspaper here for UofM...






As you can see, everyone was full of excitement here in Ann Arbor, except the conservatives who are scared of what might be with things like socialism, the freedom of choice act, and higher taxes on businesses. But besides that, people were really excited. I had to go vote during my busy schedual up in Bursley in North Campus, wehre I lived last year and regestered last year. But it worked out. Jevohn Sheperd, our senior player, kept telling us to vote and to vote Obama Monday night after practice. He was all enthusiastic about it, and the we just all started to laugh at him..."Shep! You cant even vote! Hahaha!" Jevohn is from Toronto, so yeah, he cant vote, but he looked hilarius telling us.

Click here to see McCain´s speech
Click here to see Obama´s Speech

Well, I am very excited about the future. I want to see what Obama can do and will do to bring in this "Change", this change that is very veague and has little connection to anything. But I want to see him connect this nation and lead this nation, which I think he will. I think he can lead this nation, even though his policies and beliefs are not quite in the right shoe box.