I’m not a big fan of acquiring players via free agency, but this might be a year Ted Thompson might want to try and find a player or two. For starters, the Packers are no longer a team that’s rebuilding. The Packers are a team with few needs, and may only be a player or two away from doing something Super. The one player that comes to mind is Asante Samuel. Asante is a really good corner that has a lot of good years ahead of him. Samuel, Al Harris, and Charles Woodson would be one hell of a group of cornerbacks. Harris and Woodson are both over 30, and if they drafted another CB, they’d be sittin’ pretty. In my opinion, you can never have enough corners in the NFL. Also, the Packers currently have over $20 million in salary cap space, they could front-load a contract, similar to what they did with Woodson, and they’d be sitting in good shape for years to come.

This doesn’t surprise me in the least. Hillary Clinton has run a dirty campaign since the very beginning, so the mud slinging just goes to show Hillary is a) desperate to win votes, and 2) very immature. Obama and McCain, for the most part, have both run very clean and respectful campaigns. Let’s hope Obama wins both Texas and Ohio so we don’t have to listen this awful woman anymore….

YouTube Hillary Clinton

7201 Midtown Rd., Madison, WI 53719

I realize this has been a bad Winter, but what is the deal with the roads being so awful? I feel like the last month or so the snow removal folks have given up. I’m not knocking the workers that have been busting their ass all Winter, but we had a storm Sunday, I couldn’t get into to work yesterday, and barely made it today. I don’t even think they’ve plowed, salted, or put gravel down in my area. I tried to get up the S. Gammon hill that goes up to Raymond Road and had to back down it…two days after the storm! Midtown Road doesn’t even seem like it’s been plowed and looks excellent for ice skating. Another good ice skating rink is the intersection of Raymond Road and Whitney Way. It took me an HOUR to get to work today!

Also, when it was raining Sunday morning, why weren’t there salt/gravel trucks out being a little more proactive? Instead, Madison roads turned into pure ice. You can argue that it’s too cold for salt, but my place of employment put down salt in their parking lot and it’s melting. Again, I realize the Madison snow removal crew has had one hell of a Winter, but come on, step it up!!!

<Sigh> Is Winter ever going to end?

Dear Best Buy,

We should have known better than to purchase a large TV through a big box but at the time, needing instant gratification, we did. That has been our biggest regret since. The 36″ Panasonic has now been out of commission since a week before Thanksgiving–07! We called corporate, they set up a service tech, he came out and didn’t know what was wrong with it. He made a guess at a part rescheduled another service time, came out and it was the wrong part. He ordered two more parts and scheduled yet another service call to which he was so late that we had to go back to work. He had the audacity to put a little tag on our door saying that he was sorry he missed us, we were supposed to be there. Well we needed to go back to work to make money to buy a new TV elsewhere. We called corporate that night and I sat on the phone for nearly an hour 3/4 of it on hold waiting for a manager to speak with me about this situation. She could only rectify the situation by scheduling yet another appointment which got canceled due to the parts not all being in–it doesn’t take a rocket scientist to realize that the parts weren’t in therefore they would not have been in on the day that the tech stood us up. We were told we would be contacted again when the parts were in……..that was the week before Christmas…..by the way, it is now the middle of February. I called the Best Buy store located near my house. The only shining light of this whole debacle is that Lindsay was exceptionally helpful and got us scheduled for a tech to come out and fix our TV. She had them schedule an appt. for Feb. 23 but if they could come today, Feb. 16, they would call us and let us know. We received a call on Thursday, letting us know that in fact, someone would call us between 7 a.m. and 9 a.m. letting us know when a tech could come out. At 9:30 I called and was told that they have an hour grace period before contacting our tech. GREAT. I called back at 10 a.m. only to be told that there is no tech available today and we need to reschedule.

I don’t think I have every received this atrocious service–EVER. I am curious to know if corporate understands that you can put all of this money into your fancy “Corporate Campus” but if you can’t service worth shit than how do you expect to retain customers. I am now to the point where I am planning on reporting you to the Better Business Bureau as well as contacting Panasonic to let them know that their distributor is running their name through the mud. If I was Panasonic, I would think twice before doubling my order with Best Buy.

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A few months ago we had officer Joey Williams, now we’ve got officer Salvatore Rivieri. He handled this so poorly, I don’t even have words for it. He was definitely on some type of power trip. Salvatore not only disrespected the police force, he disrespected the city. Salvatore was right about one thing, he’s not a “dude”, but he’s also not a “man”. He is what I like to call a “douche bag”. Also, why is this “douche” getting paid time off? Seriously, why do police departments have to take months to investigate? You watch the tape, and then you fire the “douche”.

YouTube Officer Salvatore Rivieri is a douche

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Barack Obama is speaking tomorrow night at the Kohl Center. I highly suggest you get your butt down there and see our future president. Doors open at 6:15 pm, speech is approximately at 8 pm. No bags, signs or banners. Staffing volunteers also needed: 294-6775

http://my.barackobama.com/page/s/madison

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The Capital Times is ditching the environmentally unfriendly medium of newsprint, and will be transitioning to their already popular website. I personally think this move is a little premature since there is still a very large number of people that enjoy their newspaper. My guess is their numbers have gotten so bad, that this is more of cost cutting move. They will save money on printing the paper, but I also believe the move to online-only will also result in a lot of cutbacks, especially if they see a lot of “red”.

I applaud the Capital Times for making such a bold move, and plunging head-first into a new era of journalism for the paper. Unfortunately, I see a lot of people losing their jobs.

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I just don’t get it. Why are people voting for Hillary Clinton? Are they a gluten for punishment, or were the last eight years with GW not bad enough? It’s funny, the people that say they’re voting for Hillary typically have two reactions: 1) they’re voting for her because she’s a woman, and 2) they just look at me with a blank stare. Neither are good reasons. Some may argue she has more experience, but that just isn’t true. The truth is, they have no good reason for voting for Hillary Clinton, and deep down, they probably just want Bill back in the White House again.

I personally think, she is, BY FAR, not the best candidate, regardless of her gender. Before you vote, do yourself, and this country, a favor and do a little research. I hate to say it Dems, but if Hillary wins this primary, McCain will be the next president. I believe many of the voters that would typically vote Democratic, will go with the Republican, yet somewhat liberal, choice of McCain, including myself. I WILL NOT VOTE FOR HILLARY.

The announcer says, “performing the Star Spangled Banner”, not lip syncing it. Why can’t the NFL find a singer that can actually sing the damn thing? If there’s any song in the history of songs you should never lip sync, it’s our nation’s anthem. It proves Jordin is just another American Idol reject, and that she’ll never amount to squat. Truly pathetic….

YouTube Jordin Sparks lip syncs National Anthem