Day 231: One Meal A Day

 

August 19th, 2011Artistic creation was implemented in the formation of today’s picture of the day: some delicious Dreyer’s (my dinner) on top of the doorknob at the place I was at for most of the day: my room. It was a rather lazy Friday, as I stayed inside most of the day chilling by playing three online games: Farmville, Words with Friends, and most importantly the Sims Online. (My friends from back home cancelled our Phil’s Trip, so I was stuck planless for a vast majority of the day). I met up with my friend Michelle at TapEx and we some delicious linner there (She got, despite my warning, some terrible free tacos at Los Primos). After that was all said and done we went to Doyle Park to play and talk. When she departed, I went back to my place, continuing my routine, but adding Degrassi to my watching list. Lauren and I proceeded to TapEx (she wanted the company), and I got my dinner at Von’s (The delicious Dreyer’s). We ate together in my room as we watched Degrassi before we ended the night both satisfied (off different types of food of course).

On this day in 1909, the first race is held at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, now the home of the world’s most famous motor racing competition, the Indianapolis 500. Built on 328 acres of farmland five miles northwest of Indianapolis, Indiana, the speedway was started by local businessmen as a testing facility for Indiana’s growing automobile industry. The idea was that occasional races at the track would pit cars from different manufacturers against each other. After seeing what these cars could do, spectators would presumably head down to the showroom of their choice to get a closer look. NOPE, NOT A REAL SPORT.

Why is the American media so intent on ignoring congressman Ron Paul and his prickly libertarian views? Paul is running for president in the Republican primaries, and it’s plain that the handmaidens of the political establishment — Democrats as well as Republicans — are freezing him out. He came within a few votes of winning last week’s Iowa straw poll, just 152 votes short among almost 17,000 cast. But rather than shower this intriguing candidate and his views with attention, the news media willfully forgot about him. The question is, why? Perhaps the answer could be found during the recent Fox News debate in Iowa, in which Paul trashed Republican saber-rattling toward a potentially nuclear Iran. END THE DRUG WARS AND THE ENDLESS WARS OVERSEAS. END THE STATUS QUO, NOW.

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