So former Mexican president Vincente Fox did a speech in Kennesaw yesterday urging the US officials to “renew the debate about legalizing some drug use.”

Now, I’m not one to disagree with such things, but it really sounds like Mexico is trying to push blame for their own drug problems onto someone else. We spend billions of dollars every year on drug control, I’d love to see the numbers that Mexico is putting out for the same issues. I highly doubt its even close. We all know a large portion of the US drug supply is flooding in from Mexico every day, but is it really our responsibility to help Mexico control their problems?

Fox continued to say that he thinks the US should form a joint effort with Mexican military/police to help stop the cartels from distributing in the US. Again, this seems to have an alternate motive. The cartel is responsible for over 10,500 deaths since the Mexican military started an offensive against them in 2006. How the fuck is this our problem? Is it really our fault that your military cannot handle them? You don’t think we have our own problems?

It’ll be interesting to see how Obama responds to this. Personally, I think it would be easier if we just legalized marijuana and let mexico deal with their own problems. We don’t need to stop the Cartel’s to help drug violence in the US. If anything, legalization in the US would become a booming business and might help our struggling economy in these tough times.

Source: Associated Press – Fox encouraged about US cooperation in drug war

Ok, Let me start by saying that I typically do not buy wireless mice. Usually the problems I encounter with them are due to reception, or they just don’t feel right.

During a visit to Microcenter as I was headed to the checkout lane, a nice smallish mouse caught my eye. It was cheap (around $15) so I figured I’d give it a shot. I got it home, popped some batteries in it, and was suprised that it worked quite well and felt good in my hand.

About a week later, I found out why it was so cheap. It started jumping around on the screen, and generally working very poorly. I quickly found out that the brand new batteries I had put into it were nearly dead. I figured, “OK, maybe the batteries were just duds” and put a couple new ones in there. Like clockwork, a week later I started experiencing the same problem.

Are these things really that bad at conserving power? I even notice that the mouse shuts itself off after a few minutes of inactivity and can only be turned back on by clicking. This was annoying but I was willing to deal with it for prolonged usage.

Long story short, I’m back to a wired mouse, never to stray again.

We’ll I revamped my website the other day. Threw up a new theme and modified it to my liking. Also uploaded some (old) pictures to flickr and added a widget on the right side to display them. Gunna try to start taking more pictures since I hardly have any.

Tell me what ya think!

Just got back from a weekend at the inlaws house outside Greenville, SC. Didn’t really do much other than sit around and bullshit. They have a really nice swimming pool so I helped Jack start to clean it up for the summer. Should be good to go next time we head out there. Probably a few weeks,  I know Jack wants to go play some golf and Dustin and Lynn wouldn’t mind sitting by the pool all day.

They bought us a patio set for the hell of it. We certainly needed one. I love to grill, but up until now we always had to eat inside. It’ll also give me some area to set stuff down when im preping the grill.

We left for SC at about 4PM or so. Unfortunately, everyone else thought this would be a good time to head out of town as well. It took us around 3.5 hours to get there, when typically it should only take about 2.5 hours. The traffic on 20 sucks, always has, probably always will. We ended up staying 2 nights and coming home early Sunday morning, Lynn had to feed the horses and has some lessons today, so she had to be home early.. Again, it sucked, but all in all, the weekend was good.