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Babito Knows Obama

Apr 29

Posted by Daddy Dan in Disneyland, Humor, Politics, TV, The Babito | 3 Comments

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Every night when I get home from work, The Babito runs up to me and pats down my pants. He’s looking for spare change.

Our new tradition is to take the spare change I accumulate through the day and put it in his piggy bank.

Tonight, I took him to his room and gave him my change. I told him to put it in his piggy bank while I went to change out of my work clothes.

I was taking off my pants when a dime I had missed fell out of my pants. When The Babito finished with the change, he came into our closet.

“Look Babito,” I said, “I found another coin!”

Babito took the coin and studied it intently. Then he said, “This is an old one, Daddy.”

I said, “Huh?”

“This is an old one, Daddy” he said, pointing to Harry Truman on the dime. “Obama is the new one.”

I was speechless.

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Barack Obama’s Interview on ‘60 Minutes’ Changed My Opinion of Him

Nov 17

Posted by Daddy Dan in Daily Life, Opinion, Politics, Recent Posts | 5 Comments

As I’ve said before, I did not vote for Barack Obama.  I seriously thought that John McCain would do a better job as President.

But after watching his interview on ‘60 Minutes’ last night I feel much better about the fact that he will be our next President.  He came across as very thoughtful and intelligent and seems like a truly genuine, nice person.  I’m feeling really good about the fact that he was elected, which is not a feeling I had anticipated having before I watched the interview.

Maybe the American people are a little smarter than I gave them credit for the night of the election.  ;-)

You can say I have Hope and am looking forward to Change.

It didn’t hurt that he’s for a college football playoff system.

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Vice Presidential Debate vs. The Dodger Game? No-Brainer

Oct 3

Posted by Daddy Dan in Politics | 9 Comments

I must admit that I didn’t watch the debate.

To me, it doesn’t matter which one becomes the Vice-President because I wouldn’t want either one of them to become President. Does that make sense?  Probably not.

Anyway, I already know who I’m voting for.  The debate tonight was not going to change my mind.

I don’t think I’m going to share who I’m voting for here before the election because I don’t want to alienate anyone or turn anyone off.  I don’t know if it would or not because I see others openly supporting Obama or McCain and it doesn’t bother me in the slightest or keep me away from their blog because I’m not voting for who they’re voting for.

Anyway, I’ll support whoever wins the election in November and hope they do a great job.  I’m beyond sick of all the partisanship and the do-nothingness of our government while things are falling apart all around us.  It’s time we all start working together, right?

But this silly little blog is not going to be about serious stuff like elections and politics and war.  It’s all about Babito stories and daily life and interviews. I want to keep it fun here.

Plus, the Dodgers were playing tonight!  What about those Dodgers?!?  In the last two days they’ve won twice as many playoff games as they have in the last 20 years combined.  Now we just need the Angels to start winning so we can finally have a Freeway World Series.

And I need The Babito to be able to sit through more than 5 minutes of a game without asking me to put Barney on, because if he asks, then Barney it is.

Too bad we don’t all live in a Barney world:

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Who Pays the Taxes in America?

Jul 22

Posted by Daddy Dan in Politics | 1 Comment

An interesting article in yesterday’s Wall Street Journal breaks down the percentage of taxes paid by various income classes. See the chart below:

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As you can see, the richest 1% of people in the United States earned 22% of the total income and paid 40% of the total taxes in 2006. The top 25% of income earners earned 37% of the total income and paid 60% of the total taxes.

The editorial goes on to state that:

“Barack Obama says he’s going to cut for those at the bottom, but that’s also going to be a challenge because Americans with an income below the median paid a record low 2.9% of all income taxes, while the top 50% paid 97.1%. Perhaps he thinks half the country should pay all the taxes to support the other half.”

Doesn’t sound fair to me.

Another interesting point in the editorial is the large growth in the number of Americans that earned over $1 million in 2006. The number rose from 181,000 in 2003 to 354,000 in 2006.

Read the whole article.