Brett "Huckleberry" Favre is still messing around with the Green Bay Packers. Huckleberry retired and now says he wants to play again. The Packers said 'NO!" and so did Aaron Rodgers, the Jesus-looking former Cal Bear QB poised to take over the Packers. So now Huckleberry wants a trade so he can scam another NFL team out of some money. It's time for Huckleberry to stay in Mississippi (it used to be so hard to spell it used to make Cranky cry. But now that Cranky's learned it - it's just like pumkin pie! M-I-S S-IS S-I-P-P-I) Huckleberry needs to call up Emmit Smith who refused to retire and looked ridiculous playing for the hapless Cardinals. Huckleberry needs to ring Joe Montana, the greatest QB of all time, and ask Smokin' Joe what it felt like to look stupid playing out his final days in KC. And he needs to buzz Troy Aikman and ask Troy what it felt like to look just gawd-awful his last two years in the NFL. And finally, Huck should call Barry Sanders and Jim Brown and ask them what it felt like to leave on top. But Huckleberry, being Huckleberry, won't do that. He's got that monumental ego to deal with. He doesn't care what he does to the Packers. Throwing interceptions to end games is not enough for Huck. He's pretty dumb. Heck, Huck can't even pronounce his own name correctly.
The new IPhone is out, and Cranky Greg is not one of the guys who waited in line in order to get ripped off by AT&T. The IPhone looks pretty cool, but the fact that it is tied to AT&T is anti-consumer, and is stupid. Cranky Greg is sold on his BlackBerry 8830, and will buy the BlackBerry Bold once it is released. With a BlackBerry, the user is not tied to a particular service.
It's amazing that the first IPhone was tied to an inferior network, and now the buzz is that it will be faster. The problem is, AT&T's fancy network is rather limited.
And that sucks if you live in Winnemucca.
Not everyone is a fan of Apple, but you can't please all the people all the time.
Perhaps the Neo FreeRunner is the answer?
The housing crisis escalates, and The New York Times, ever on the cutting edge of every news story, reports today that many mortgage lenders are not working very hard at restructuring mortgages for those who can't pay on their current mortgages. Well, imnagine that? Trying get a person to speak with at a big ass company like Countrywide! The problem with the housing crisis, in Cranky's humble opinion, is that it's going to get much worse before it gets any better. Housing prices in California are much higher than the incomes earned in California can support. A lot of people were addicted to the home equity ATM. Now it's catching up. And the part that makes Cranky Greg think it is going to get worse is that many couples purchased homes and fancy cars based on two salaries. Now that the economy is faltering, if one loses a job, then the family cannot afford the mortgage and the car payments based on only one salary. So imagine a couple that earns $180,000 combined. Very good income, but not if there are two huge car payments and a big mortgage. If one loses a job in this scenario, cars won't be paid off and then mortgages won't get paid off. So, Cranky Greg is a pessimist about the economy. Especially in California.
Former U.S. Sen. Jesse "Mr. Happy" Helms died, and Cranky Greg shed no tears for this racist bastard. Unfortunately, the slug was a Republican, which used to make Cranky Greg kinda queasy, back in the days when Cranky Greg was a Republican. Cranky used to wonder how a party led by Ronald Reagan could include such dour and petulent little racists like Jesse Helms.
Not only was Mr. Happy a symbol of Jim Crow politics, he looks like he would be no fun to be with. Cranky's not too fond of Bill Clinton, but figures it would be fun to hang with Bill for a day and go out and have a beer with him. But can one even imagine having a beer with Mr. Happy? Even being in the room with him for more than a minute or two had to be a chore.
Juan Williams' thoughts on Mr. Happy are worth reading.
Cranky hopes that Mr. Happy and Strom Thurmond are suffering together as slaves for Rosa Parks.