If You Have to Lose.......

There was one kind of interesting thing in yesterday's two big games: USC V Cal and Michigan V Ohio State.

Both winners are probably going to play in the BCS Championship game at the Fiesta Bowl, and both losers are probably going to play in the Rose Bowl.

(assuming USC wins out)

That's one reason why the BCS sucks right there...the Rose Bowl gets the SECOND place teams of the Big-10 and the Pac-10, instead of the conference champs like it used to.

USC V Cal

The game is about to begin. This should be each team's toughest game so far this season. USC is playing for a chance at the BCS Championship, Cal is playing for the Pac-10 title, and a berth in the Rose Bowl.

Go Trojans!

Update 9:28 1st quarter: The first big play, and first big review goes USC's way, negating an 82 yd fumble return for a TD by Cal. USC kicks a field goal and leads, 3-0.

Update 14:12 1st Quarter: USC gets an interception, and then on the next play there is a blocking break down that results in a USC safety. 3-2

Update 3:28 2nd quarter: Cal is driving after the free kick...the QB is sacked and fumbles, USC ball.

Update 11/19/06: Well that was a good game, a fun game. I would have loved to have played in that game, lots of good hitting, lots of big plays (on offense and defense for both teams). For once (especially in the Pac-10) the refs (including replay) had a good game.

I like the whole thing with having Maguire on the camera cart. (by the way, did you catch the kink in one of his fingers? What's the matter? Couldn't they set broken fingers in the 1960's?)

And So It Begins......

There was good news today in Congress. First, "cut and run" Murtha was defeated in his quest for power as majority leader. This was good for the American soldier, the Iraqi people and the American taxpayer.

Second, "madame botox" Pelosi spent some of her political capital in support of Murtha and lost. That can only be good.

Third, the blue dog Democrats flexed their muscles and discovered that they are the true source of power within the Democrat caucus. Hopefully this will embolden them.

Fourth, Huffington, Kos and the rest of the nutsroots suffered a setback. We are already seeing the beginning of a struggle for the party between the nutsroots and the DLC. We can only hope the Clintons are successful in throwing Dean overboard at the DNC, then things will get really entertaining.

I may have been a touch too pessimistic earlier...the Democrats might be too incompetent and divided to be as dangerous as I first thought.

That's News To My Teachers.......

You paid attention during 97% of high school!

85-100% You must be an autodidact, because American high schools don't get scores that high! Good show, old chap!

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Predictions 2006 - Results Pt. 2

13) The Houston Texans will trade the first pick in the NFL draft. Reggie Bush will be drafted #1 by New England.
Nope and nope 5-8

14) The Los Angeles Dodgers will not finish over .500; The Anaheim Angels will win their division.
Nope and nope 5-10

15) The Yankees will win the world series.
Nope 5-11

16) The Clippers will finish with a better record than the Lakers, both will make the playoffs.
Yep and yep 7-11

17) Detroit Vs San Antonio in the NBA finals, San Antonio wins.
Completely wrong 7-13

18) Young returns for Texas, and White returns for USC next year, both teams compete for the national championship again.
Wrong on the returns...both teams were in the top 10 the first week of nov...USC still has a shot at the championship 7-15

19) Brady Quinn wins the Heisman next year.
still possible 7-15

20) There will be violence along the U.S.-Mexico border, it will involve drug cartels, U.S. Border Patrol and the Mexican Army
Not yet 7-16

21) Castro, Hugo Chavez and Evo Morales will form an anti-American pact.
Not officially yet..but I'm going to call this a draw 7-16

22) Canada will have a coalition government led by the Conservatives
Spot on 8-16

23) The U.S. government will reveal the existence of a space plane program and kill the space shuttle program
Not yet 8-17

Predictions 2006 -Results Pt. 1

1) Oscar for best movie - Walk the Line
Too soon to tell 0-0

2) Congress - Republicans will hold on to control of both houses, but will lose seats.
Wrong 0-1

3) U.S. Supreme Court - Alito will be confirmed, no attempt to filibuster. Another Justice will leave by the end of the year.
Correct 1-1

4) Rose Bowl - USC will beat Texas by at least 13 points.
Wrong 1-2

5) SuperBowl - Denver VS Seattle, Seattle wins
Close....It was Pittsburgh V Seattle and Pittsburgh won 1-3

6) Sen Clinton is re-elected with better than 60% of the vote
Yep...67% 2-3

7) When the election is finally held, Mayor Nagin loses in New Orleans
Sadly, wrong 2-4

8) The U.S. economy will continue to thrive, and the mainstream media will continue to ignore it.
This is clearly correct. 3-4

9) Both France and Germany will enter a recession.
Extremely low growth, but no recession 3-5
Update 11/15/06: France stagnant in the 3rd quarter, Germany up .6% and the Eurozone (countries using the Euro) up .5%. The U.S. had it's GDP rise by 1.6% in the 3rd quarter, and it was described as a "slump".

10) The U.N. will continue to ignore the Oil for Food Scandal, Bolton will continue to make the UN institute incremental reforms.
Yep 4-5

11) Israel will bomb Iran. The UN will condemn them and Israel won't give a shit.
Not yet at least 4-6

12) There will be more rumors of a coup in North Korea, but they will be false.
Yep 5-6

Happy Veteran's Day!

Happy Veteran's day to all of our veterans out there. Thanks Dad, and thanks to all the rest of you. All ways remember that most of us understand the sacrifices you have made, and honor you for it.

The President's Press Conference

Oh my God , this is a disaster.

First the substance, dumping Rumsfield overboard. What is he thinking? The Islamic fanatics and the moonbat Democrats will both see this as a victory. He is weakening himself enormously the day after the election. He is a lame duck as of right now.

Second he is replacing him with a former head of the CIA! What is he thinking? The CIA has been stabbing him in the back for six years! The CIA has been incompetent for the last 30 years!

Next the style. He looks and sounds weak. Defeated. Mark my words, the Democrats are going to roll him, and the press has already begun savaging him. The next two years are going to be very ugly. The press is being openly disrespectful, rude and hostile to him.

I give him credit for standing there and taking the punches the press is throwing, and occasionally attempting to counter-punch. It shows personal courage. But he isn't doing himself, or anyone else (especially the Republican party) any favors.

From the Web...

From a blog called Not So Confidential:

One other comment - have you noticed that since the Dems won there are no complaints about voter fraud from them? Even though it was very close. Does anyone doubt that had it gone the other way there would be dozens of complaints and allegations and conspiracy theories about how the GOP stole the election? But the GOP loses and instead of complaining about cheating they are looking inward to see what they did wrong. It says so very much about the two parties - and the people in them.


Yeah, some of us have noticed. And I agree with you completely. The other thing I have noticed is the complete lack of graciousness in victory that much of the left has. They are being just as snide, rude and sarcastic as they were in defeat. There is an old football saying concerning players who behave poorly and with a lack of sportsmanship: "Act like you have been in the end zone before." Clearly much of the left didn't play football.

Update 11/8/06: I want to be sure to distinguish Harold Ford Jr. from my earlier remarks. His concession speech last night was a class act. He did everything that Kerry and Gore should have done. My estimation of him has gone up several notches.

The Legacy of 2006

Oh what have we done? America I know the Republicans had gone soft, and been captured by Washington D.C. The Republicans deserved to lose the House. I get it. But the Senate too?

You may have thought you were electing Conservative Democrats, and for the most part you were. But the problem is, the Democratic leadership couldn't be more liberal, some down right moonbatty.

These next two years are probably going to be ugly, and not just for the U.S.

I) Iraq

A) The Democrats have to pull us out of Iraq, their base will demand it. They will spout the usual nonsense, the same tired promises we gave Vietnam in the 70's. But the Islamic fanatic will know the truth. Let's be honest, once the troops are gone, they're not going back in, and no one in the region is going to allow us to station our troops in their country.

B) Shortly after we pull the troops out, Iraq will descend into a three way civil war.

1) The Democrats will immediately say "see, we told you so", being either unwilling, or too blind to see that our pullout is what caused the civil war.

2) Tens of thousands of Iraqis and Kurds will be killed in the fighting and reprisals.

3) Iran, Syria and Turkey will probably dismantle Iraq, (in the name of stopping the civil war) and divide the pieces between them, and no one will do anything about it.

a) Turkey has been struggling to preserve its young western democracy. This will fall. The only question is whether or not the military is still strong enough to install a military dictatorship, or if the Islamic fundamentalists will take over.

C) This will be the final straw. After Vietnam, Somalia and Iraq, no one will trust American assurances and promises anymore. (Would you?)

1) South Korea and Japan will go nuclear. Taiwan will try to do so also. North Korea with the bomb and American fecklessness are just too dangerous for them.

D) Afghanistan will descend back into tribalism and lawlessness, and either the Taliban or a military dictatorship fronting for the Taliban will take over.

E) Pakistan will either become a military dictatorship or be taken over by the fundamentalists.
Either way, the tensions between Pakistan and India will rise, and conflict could erupt. Which could be extremely dangerous, since both have nuclear weapons.

F) Worldwide terrorism will arise, and we will be attacked at home and abroad.

G) The morale of our armed forces will plummet. Soldiers who have been proud of what we have been doing will start to question their sacrifices. Recruitment will drop. We can only hope things don't go as bad as they did in the 70's after the betrayal of our military and the South Vietnamese.

II) Immigration

A) There will be an amnesty bill, and a guestworker program. Pres. Bush and the Democrats agree on this issue.

1) We will begin a process that will see at least 15 million illegal immigrants given legal residency, and a minimal path to citizenship.

2) There will be about 10 million more Mexicans living in Mexico that will be given residency and/or citizenship through legacies (parents, spouses, children).

3) By 2008 there will be at least 5 million more illegal residents waiting for the next amnesty.

4) By 2008, Mexico will be receiving $30 billion or more a year in remittances from the US. Most of this money will come from the underground economy, and so will be untaxed, and directly siphoned off from the American economy.

B) The fence just authorized by Congress will never be built.

C) There will be waves of immigrants from Haiti and Cuba also.

1) there will probably be a repeat of the Mariel boatlift in Cuba, as Cuba empties its prisons, and when the current Cuban regime topples, all bets are off.

III) Washington D.C.

A) The lawyers are going to get fat. There will be countless hearings and investigations.

1) There is at least a 30% chance the Democrats will try to impeach Pres. Bush. There is a 100% chance that articles of impeachment will be filed. Hell, some already are.

2) There is a bigger chance that the Democrats will try to impeach V.P. Cheney.

3) Def. Secretary Rumsfield and his high level subordinates will spend most of the next two years testifying in front of Congress.

4) The Democrats will hold hearings over using Haliburton, ignoring the fact that it was the Clinton administration that began awarding it government contracts.

5) There will be hearings in Congress dealing with the CIA, in which the moles who have been leaking classified documents the last six years will testify about how awful things have been during the Bush Administration. The State Department will send their share before Congress also.


Maybe I am being unduly pessimistic. I hope I am. But history, and human nature, tells me otherwise.

Election Results

Well, looks like the Dems have won control of the House. However when compared to historical 6th year norms, the Dems still haven't performed as well as expected.

It also needs to be stressed that most of the Dem gains are by Conservative Dems, not the moonbat Kossacks. In fact the main Kossack candidate, Lamont went down in flames. It will be interesting to see how well the new Conservative Dems work with their leadership.

So..we'll have to put up with the children running amuck for two years. But on the bright side, people like Pelosi, Conyers and Rangel will never be able to control themselves.....and the American people will throw them out in 2008.

Update (early AM 11/8/06):

Well it looks like the Democrats have taken the Senate also. Congratulations. The American people have made their choice. Unfortunately I don't think it was a wise one. We will see.

The question now is where does the Republican Party go? There is no Reagan on the horizon to lead them back to their base and into power. The worst thing that could happen would be to turn the party over to the McCain types.

The next two years will be interesting times, and you know what the Chinese say about interesting times.....

Helen Fire/News Coverage

I'm sitting here watching the LA News channels covering the Helen fire, and it is amazing how awful the coverage is. Apparently no one at any of the channels knows the area. The fire started at the 15 freeway, and almost exactly on the border of Rialto and Fontana. One side of the fire advanced down Sierra Ave into Fontana, and the other side advanced down Riverside Ave into Rialto. For instance at one point they are interviewing the Fontana USD superintendent about school evacuations, while showing footage of schools in the Rialto School District, and incorrectly saying that they had been evacuated.

If network TV is going to survive they need to get their act together.

Two Great Things That Go Well Together

The music of the Bee Gees and making fun of John Kerry together. As those two Guiness guys would say: "Brillant!"

H/T: The Riehl World

Election 2006

Just for the record, I am predicting that the Republicans will hold onto the House and Senate.


Update 11/4/06: This guy feels exactly like I do, and for almost exactly the same reasons.

Monday Night Football's Party Foul 10/30/06

Paris Hilton!?! Paris Fracking Hilton!?!

The whole network needs to get hit with one of those giant beer cans.

The Sports Reporters

This morning on the Sports Reporters we were "treated" to a diatribe on Pat Tillman's death, during which the reporter slanted every statement in a way to trash the administration, and the host (who admitted he was Canadian and didn't understand why our Constitution protected the things it did) questioning our protection of free speech and the 2nd Amendment to own guns. He based his opposition to gun ownership to the false interpretation that the 2nd Amendment only referred to organized militia.

Hey guys...the show is called sports reporters, shut up and talk about sports you idiots!

The Founding Fathers and Religion

There is currently a discussion taking place on the NRO's Corner concerning the Founding Father's religious beliefs and opinions. It was sparked by the publication of George Will's review in the NYT of a book called Moral Minority by someone named Brooke Allen. The debate is centered on the professed deism of most of the Founding Fathers. (I should note that I myself am a Deist, and at least partly due to the deism of the FF)

While I do not believe in religion (just a creator), intellectually I can appreciate the role that organized religion has played in civilization. In fact I believe that civilization is not possible without religion. I believe that most men (and women) are brutish by nature, and need an external force to moderate their behavior. Religion provides both a carrot and a stick, along with a justification, that encourages civil behavior.

When we look at societies that have attempted to suppress or eliminate religion (revolutionary France and various communist countries) we see a reversion to a State of Nature. (ie a lack of civilization)

Jefferson , Washington, Madison and the rest were intelligent enough to know that civilization and public order required the presence of a moral code and authority external to the State and society. They had to repose the origins of our rights in a creator in order to preserve them from destruction at the hands of a future despot.

As the Supreme Court has seen fit to transfer these rights from the realm of a creator to the realm of politics and judicial review, we have seen these rights threatened.

So yes, the Founding Fathers were skeptical of religion, but I firmly believe they understood it's utility and necessity.

Who Needs Diogenes?

I feel like a modern day Diogenes. I have actually found an honest Democrat. She seems to be a moderate, and from what I have read so far, fair. Her name is Kirsten Powers, and her blog is named Powers Point.

Of course it doesn't hurt that she is hot.

I Actually Know One of Them......

HowManyOfMe.com

There are: 215 people with my name in the U.S.A. How many have your name?

Battlestar Galactica 10/20/06

Wow. I didn't believe that Tigh would do it. At least not without him drinking the poison also.

So long Pegasus...at least you took two Basestars with you...and you lasted almost a whole season longer than I expected you to...


Am I imagining things..or did they change which eye Tigh had poked out when he showed up on Galactica?

Shogun Wars

Heroes 10/17/06

Well..looks like the cheerleader's dad and the Black man in the bar are working together. Wonder which one (if either) is Sylar?


Update 10/17/06: I don't know why I didn't comment on this yesterday..but how about that cheerleader? I mean, damn...first you wake up with your chest sliced open on an autopsy table after an attempted rape, and then next you're crashing a speeding car into a wall to kill your attempted raper. If it wasn't an inappropriate metaphor..I would certainly say that little girl sure had balls.

The Hiro from the future was kind of cool also. This show has gone from, interesting to "if I miss it on Monday, I'm sure as hell watching the repeat on Sci Fi on Friday".

Mongo and Condalezza Mice

What the World Has Come To.......

There is a truck commercial on TV that is using IronMan by Black Sabbath. Black Sabbath!

There is absolutely no way you could have predicited 34 years ago when this song was released in the US that it would one day be used in a television commercial.

It wasn't too long ago that Ozzy and Black Sabbath were being blamed for everything wrong with teenagers. Now they've been co-opted by Wall Street.

Remember the outrage years ago when Michael Jackson allowed some of the Beatles tunes to be used in commercials? That is how I feel right now.

What's next..some travel company using Holiday in Cambodia by the Dead Kennedys?

What the Hell Happened to the Defense?

A kid scores 10 touchdowns in a high school football game, two over 50 yards, and his team loses in overtime?!? The article makes no mention of defensive players or coaches for obvious reasons, and it's not hard to guess why both teams were winless going into this game.

And I thought my team in high school was bad......

Dr. Who

Well that is cool!

Sarah Jane Smith and K-9 making an appearance! But poor K-9 gets it in the end.......Well...at least one version of him does.

This was my favorite Dr. Who episode since Tom Baker was the Dr.

Heroes Pt. 2

Well I'm watching the newest episode of Heroes again on Sci Fi while waiting for Dr. Who and BSG.

The show has potential, but it's not yet on my must watch list. My favorite storyline so far is Hiro and his comic book. The last scene with the cheerleader waking up all cut open on the autopsy table was sure chilling. How is she going to explain that one? The cop is a little interesting too.

I wonder if Sylor is the cheerleader's Dad, or the black guy the cop saw in the bar?

Fight On! Pt. 5

Well that was ugly. Washington played extremely well. Still, given Auburn's loss to Arkansas today should mean that USC moves up to #2. But if we don't get healthy, and start playing better soon, the season could end up going south.

Throw Me a Frickin' Bone Here......

OK I'm confused.

What the hell is it that Rep. Foley is supposed to have done wrong?

1) Have sex with a page?

That has been going on in DC for decades. Everyone knows it's going on. Besides, no actual sexual act has been alleged, merely sexual suggestive communication.

2) Homosexuality?

Ok, I can see why this would upset some Republicans, but I thought the MSM and the Democratic Party were in favor of homosexuality? Or maybe Republicans aren't allowed to be homosexual? (David Corn seems to think so)

3) Sex with a minor?

First of all, all the alleged "victims" are at least 16, which is the age of consent in DC. (note I disagree with this, but it is the law) Secondly, again the charges are still in the realm of speech, no sexual conduct has been alleged.

4) Sex with a subordinate?

First, the Democrats have told us for years that this is OK. I mean if the president can do it in the Oval office and it's OK..... Second again, no sex has been alleged. (unless of course the Dems want to argue that e-mail and IMs count as sex but blow jobs don't)

5) Sexually suggestive E-Mail and IMs?

You have got to be kidding! You can hear worse any second of the day by dialing the right (or wrong) number. Phone sex is a thriving industry. And you can read much worse on the internet any day of the week also.

6) Sexual Harassment

I have seen nothing to suggest that Rep. Foley persisted in his attentions with any page if he was asked to stop. Everything I've seen suggests the pages were at least as willing as Monica was.

So, I can see why Republicans can and should be upset with Foley, and want him to resign....but for the life of me I can't see why the Democrats and the MSM are so upset.

Shogun

There's a new online game/simulation concerning the warlord era of Japanese history. This is a real throwback to the early days of computer sims, with no fancy graphics or action scenes. It's called Shogun Wars.

NFL or Flag Football?

I didn't notice it when it happened, but all of a sudden it became illegal to sneeze on a quarterback in the NFL. I've seen some incredibly ticky tack roughing the passer calls the last two weeks. How long before the NFL simply puts them in a red jersey and makes it illegal to hit them?

Fight On! Pt. 4

Well that was unimpressive. SC looked flat on both sides of the ball. Still they did do enough to win. But there better be a whole hell of a lot of improvement over the course of the next couple of weeks.

It Must Be Election Time....

Literally every single time I have lingered for more than a second on MSNBC the last two days, they have been talking about Woodward's new book. This book is a slam against the White House, (I know..surprise surprise) based on leaks and back stabbing interviews.

The next Republican president should completely clean house at the State department and CIA, they have become bastions of Democratic hacks and internationalists who could care less about the US. Send them all home like Pres. Reagan did with the air traffic controllers.

We will be in marginal more danger (given the track record of the State Department and CIA) while the two organizations are reconstituted, but the danger will be worth it.

Minor Tragedy

I caught one of my students cheating last week (she was really sloppy) and confirmed it by using a fake answer key today.

She's a good kid, and pretty smart. She didn't need to cheat, and I'm not even that mad about it.

But what is really depressing is that she is refusing to admit it. (and I have her dead to rights...the evidence couldn't be more damning.) She has given tearful denials now to her parents and another teacher. In fact it is her denials that are probably going to see her kicked out of leadership at school. (the teacher she tearfully denied it to is her leadership advisor, but I've shown him the evidence, and there is no doubt in either of our minds)

So now I'm starting to feel like a shit for busting her. My friend the leadership advisor is upset, hurt and disillusioned by the false denials, the other leadership kids are going to be upset if she is kicked out of leadership (and I have about 20 of them in the class), her parents are upset, and the student in question is upset.

Yet another way that teaching sometimes sucks.

Somewhere Over the Rainbow

This is my favorite version of the song, "Somewhere Over the Rainbow".

100 Words

100 words is back, and I have just posted my entry for the fourth straight day. It's hard to find a voice in only 100 words, and have a plot. Then to top it off, somedays, like today, you find that someone else has already developed the theme you were shooting for. I was going to go with Space Invaders today, but it had already been done. Still, I think today's effort has been my best of the four. I should find my groove in a week or two.

Kill Me Now......

Man I hate food poisoning......

Update: Last time it was a pizza, which was bad enough. Today I got to re-visit this morning's sausage and egg McMuffin, and a Livewire Slurpee.

Heroes

Well the show didn't knock my socks off, but it was interesting enough to get me back for one more week. The show was dramatically over-hyped though.

We Missed You Les......

Apparently 100 Words or Les Nesman is back. Sorta. Now it's apparently just plain old 100 Words. My first effort is a little questionable, but I'll soon get back into harness.

By the way H/T to my brother.

My New Favorite Rap Video

H/T: The Irish Trojan

Update 9/26/06: I've just watched this thing again for like the 20th time, and laughed outloud each time. Weird Al is a God.


I wonder what videos made by Richard Cheese would look like?

Fight On! Pt. 3

What the hell? We lose another fullback? This is getting ridiculous! Oh well, at least we beat the University of Arizona in the PAC-10 opener, 20-3. Moody is looking like quite a find, and a suitable replacement for Reggie Bush.
Considering what we lost to the NFL this year, USC is progressing very nicely.

Thank You Sir, May I Have Another?

Andrew Sullivan is complaing about "torture" again on his blog. You can tell this guy has lead a very sheltered life, because the tortures he is so torn up about are pretty mild, and no worse than what occurs during hellweek for many sports teams and most fraternity pledge classes. (hell, from what I hear, worse things happen on an average weekend at English public schools) Who does Sullivan think we are dealing with here? These guys aren't boyscouts..they're terrorists for Christ's sake!

Fantasy Football 2006

Well, after two weeks results are mixed.

In my three tier 1 leagues (two ESPN cash leagues and a yahoo league, all with my co-workers) I am 5-1. In the league I have a loss in, none of the teams in my division are undefeated.

In my three tier 2 leagues, I am 1-5 (three yahoo leagues with friends and former high school classmates) . That means I am .500 overall, not too shabby at this point.

Two and a Half Men

The funniest TV I have seen in months was the 2 minute intro to the season premire of Two and a Half Men that just played.

California Governor's Race

Apparently, the Democratic Party has been subsumed by BDS (Bush Derangement Syndrome). They are spending millions of dollars on commercials here in California on the governors race. Do the ads give us reasons to support and vote for Angelides? Nope. He doesn't even appear. Instead they are one minute attacks on Arnold simply because he supported the re-election of Pres. Bush.

So in a State with a larger economy than most nations, with huge problems with illegal immigration and the inability to adhere to a balanced budget; the biggest issue according to the Democrats, is that a registered Republican supported a registered Republican.

The bankruptcy of ideas on the left has never been more pronounced or apparent.

Fight On! Pt. 2

28-10. A fine workman-like victory. Nothing flashy, but fairly effective. Give the re-building currently going on at SC, you can't really expect more at this point.

Breakfast Club Redux

I remember watching The Breakfast Club twenty years ago, and being able to see a little bit of myself in all the kids (except Molly Ringwald). Today I was in charge of Saturday school, (a four hour detention hall) and it finally hit me..I have become Principal Vernon.


Man that sucks.

A Fine Pair of Boobys!

I guess the hot new topic in blogging today is boobys. Steve H. has been discussing the issue the past couple of days, and has apparently come to the conclusion, that if you can't beat them, join them. So he has posted a kind of mini-carnival of boobys today. Since I haven't had an original thought in years, and I am a complete traffic whore, I thought I would get in the game. So here I proudly present my favortite pair of boobys.


Update 9/15/06: Welcome to everybody coming over from the Irish Trojan! Relax, kick up you feet and stay awhile. Have a look around, you might find something you like.

Update 9/28/06: Welcome everyone coming over from Samantha Burns' site. C'mon on in and stay awhile.

I Shall Never Forget...

I remember the morning of 9-11-01 very well. My Mom had just called me over to look at the news (a live shot of the Twin Towers) about a plane hitting a building in New York. Almost immediately the second plane hit. I was consumed with a deep anger, because I knew what had happened. One plane may be an accident, two is a plot. My mind did not leap to Osama, but I did know it was Islamic terrorists.

I was watching live TV when the Challenger blew up also. I remember the grief and sadness I felt, and the anger for the anchorman who was apparently unaware of what had happened and kept droning on about the mission.

9-11 was different though. This wasn't an accident, this was planned.

I have always been labeled pro-Arab. I understand the anger about the imposition of Israel in their midst. I have always believed in a Palestinian state. I can even understand intellectually the anger and futility that the Islamic world feels when they compare their standard of living to ours.

But when it comes down to a question of us or them, (and I think this conflict does) then there is no question whose side I am on. In the last five years I have come to believe that we are in a clash of civilizations, the modern world versus the medieval one. And even if we were so inclined as to show mercy, our mercy would be scorned as weakness and rejected. We are going to have to develop the resolve and the will to eliminate Islam as a force in the world. Because they are never going to give up, reform or back down. Their culture and religion simply will not allow them to. We have spent the last two centuries fighting against Islamic expansion, in Moorish Spain, at the Battle of Tours, in the Balkans. Islam has made more gains in the last fifty years than in the 500 years before it. Europe has been thourghly infiltrated. Already one Islamic state has developed atomic weapons, and a second is on the cusp. MAD will not work on these people, because as far as we are concerned they are quite simply mad.

Genocide is an ugly word, for an ugly act. We can all hope that it never comes to that. The problem is, our enemies are literally praying that it does come to that.

Thoughts on 9-11

As I have said before I am a teacher. I teach Social Studies to 8th graders. One of my fellow Social Studies teachers and I had a conversation on Friday about what we were going to do on Monday to commemorate 9-11. Now I respect this woman. Five years ago she organized some students who raised money, and bought trees and plaques to commemorate the Twin Towers and United 93. (However nothing was done to commemorate, and no mention was made of, the attack on the Pentagon, and I don't think that was an accident. I wish I had noticed that at the time, I would have spoken up)

However, she had mixed emotions about doing anything on Monday, because she didn't want to support in any way, those who would "use the anniversary of 9-11 to justify going around the world and bombing people". She talked about doing a presentation on an organization in NYC comprised of victims of terrorism around the world who promote a peaceful response to terror.

The whole time she was doing this, I was thinking, "how nice that you have the luxury to indulge your ideology, and present it to your students."

Because I feel exactly the opposite. I want my students to understand the horror of what was done. I want them to realize that there are people on this planet who want them dead because of who they are, how they live, and what they think. In five years many of these kids will be in the service defending us.

My last thought Friday morning was: Doesn't this otherwise intelligent woman understand that these monsters would come here and cut her head off in a heartbeat, and not feel a thing about it? And sadly I realized that she doesn't. Not really. And neither does most of the left in America today.

Frankly that scares me more than the terrorists themselves.

It's Baaaack

Mountain Dew Livewire is back. (The Orange flavor) Oh well, guess I'm not going to be losing any weight for a while.....



Update 9/9/06: I've looked everywhere! I've looked at Stater Bros., 7-11, Arco, Wal Mart and everywhere else. The only size of Livewire available anywhere is the 20 oz size, which of course is the most uneconomical size. Damn it. Hurry up and ship the 2 liter bottles!

Day By Day

Have you read the latest Day By Day strip? I can't believe Chris would kill off Jan that way...it has to be a carjacking! I mean, she just found out she's pregnant!


I'm actually waiting impatiently for tomorrow's strip......


Update: Thank God, Jan is alive in Monday's strip, and the car was stolen.

Fight On!

USC wins its first game! We blow out Arkansas for the second year in a row, this time 50-14.

A Shot Across Her Bow.....

The Kossack/nutroots crowd have fired their first salvo at Hillary Clinton. MoveOn (which if I remember correctly was formed to defend Pres. Clinton) has failed to endorse Sen. Clinton for re-election to her Senate seat against a no name, no chancer. Look for Hillary to quickly run to the left.

Sometimes I Wish I Could Pray......

I just found out that a good friend at work is having serious health problems. She had a stroke, is having fainting spells, and symptoms of a neurological disorder. I'm stuck here. I'm very worried and concerned, and I don't know what to do. If I believed in a God that listened to prayer, I'd be at the church right now. But I don't. It is remarkable how helpless I feel. I have often been jealous of those who possess faith, and times like this just reinforces that.

By Their Words Ye Shall Know Them.....

From an article on Townhall:

Perhaps that's why this week in one of the boldest moves yet by a sitting liberal, Democrat Assembly Speaker Fabian Nunez proclaimed, "The real purpose of SB 1437 is to outlaw traditional perspectives on marriage and family in the state school system."He continued, "The way you correct a wrong (perspective) is by outlawing.’Cause if you don't outlaw it, then people's biases tend to take over and dominate the perspective and the point of view."


Nunez's candor unwittingly exposes two tenets of the far left:

1) The use of public schools to inculcate and indoctrinate our children in their farleft ideology.

2) The need for Liberals and other leftists to silence their opponents rather than engage them.

I would be embarassed for them, if they weren't so dangerous.

(I have crossposted this on my other blog)

Business 101

I've talked about this before recently but the issue has come up again one of my regular reads so I've been thinking about it again. I have come to the conclusion that the history of Sony's Betamax, and Apple computers should be the first thing taught to Business School students as an example of what NOT to do. Both companies took clearly superior products, that should have dominated their markets, and completely mismanaged them.

There are currently two competing systems for the high definition DVD market, which will be taking off in the near future. (Analog TV will be departing soon, and people will start switching over to HD as their old systems wear out)

The first of these systems is called Blu-Ray. This is the system designed by Sony. By initial reports, this system seems to be the superior system. It has a larger capacity. But a drawback is that it seems to be more susceptible to damage.

The competing system is called HD DVD and was designed by Toshiba. This system seems to be more flexable. It has the support of Microsoft, which is a good leg up. It also hit the market 3 months earlier than Blu-Ray.


It will be interesting to see how this battle turns out.

Hi Ho, Hi Ho........

Work is going to be a bear this week. I have duty for 20 min before and after school this week; a one hour shift in the school detention room on Monday; a PTA meeting on Monday; a 3 hour buyback on Tuesday afternoon; a 1 hour shift of detention in my room on Wed.; and a four and a half hour shift of Saturday School on Saturday.

I'm tired already.

Sometimes Life Just Sucks.........

There was a fight in my classroom today, about five minutes before the end of school. I had to run up to the front of my classroom and break it up. The one kid wouldn't stop, so I had to grab him around the chest and throw him out my classroom door. While I was doing this........my pants fell around my ankles. Needless to say..the class broke up.



Oh well, at least it means I'm still losing weight.

Screw the Scientists!

Don't worry Pluto..I still love you.


The Solar System seems so much smaller today........

A Great Pair of Tits!

I was browsing the web, and I came across this great pair of tits!



Update 8/24/06: So far I'm still getting more hits for Betty Ngyuen than I am for tits.

Treasure Hunters

AAAARRRGHHH


The Genuises won...Damn it.


And was the live summation part of the show crappy or what?

Free Loaders Pt 4

Well here are the two free loaders. The gray one is almost definitely Mongo. I still haven't decided on the orange one. Nothing is jumping out at me yet.


Update 8/21/06: I'm all but decided about Mongo. But now I'm thinking about Taggart for the orange one.

Update 8/24/06: Oops. It's looking like the gray one is a girl. So now I'm thinking Condolezza Mice for her, and Mongo for the orange one.

It's the Economy Stupid?

Somebody on Studio B on Fox News just now said the American people are tired of the war on terror, and instead want our economy to get more attention and improve. Hello? Listen up McFly!

Our economy is currently purring along. It is the envy of every other economy in the world. We are out performing all of the world's major economies. Now that the Fed has stopped reflexively raising interest rates every quarter, it will get even better.

The only fly in the ointment is the price of gas. And that has good news embedded in it. Our economy just withstood a 30% rise in the price of gas without a stutter. And in real money terms, gas is still cheaper than it was during the last fuel crisis.

The real question is why the media elites keep maintaining this fiction of an ailing economy, and don't tell the real story.

Free Loaders Pt. 3

Well, it's looking more and more like the big gray one will be known as "Mongo". I still haven't decided on the little orange one...right now the two contenders are Gabby and Chumley.

Free Loaders Pt. 2

Well I fed the little runts some sliced ham, and some tuna tonight. They went nuts for it. Both of them are really imprinting on me. The little orange one actually purred twice tonight. I've got to come up with some names soon...

The Descent Continues...?

I filed paperwork today to run for an elective office within my union. I have filed to run for Middle School Director. It is a kind of administrative position. I would be a liason between the union and the middle school site reps and I would also sit on the union's Executive Board. There are four of us in the race, and I have no idea what chance I have of winning.

Free Loaders!

I got home from work this Monday, headed into my computer room, and began reading my mail. I had a link from my Mom to a site about the care of kittens. I sent it back to her to ask what the hell was up. I get a phone call an hour and a half later, and she tells me that there are two kittens in my living room. I go out there, and sure enough, there are two mewling kittens in a cat carrier. Flea ridden to boot.

Seems Mom had taken my niece and nephew to the pound to visit, and someone brought in six kittens too young, so they were going to be killed. Next thing I know, I've got two freeloaders, my Mom has two and so does my brother.

I have always had cats as pets, and I have become resigned to this.....but......

Fantasy Football

Well three of my teams have drafted now. I have Larry Johnson on 2 of them. He'd better live up to the hype. I have a live draft on saturday, and then several online drafts next week.

Christopher Hitchens

I have just finished reading one of Christoper Hitchens' books. It was an extremely frustrating experience for me. There are times I admire Mr. Hitchens. He can be insightful and artful in his prose. Unfortunately his incessant attacks on capitalism, republicanism and organized religion constantly get in the way. It is the same problem that many of us have with Ann Coulter, the diatribes occlude the message.


aarrrgh!

ESPN Monday Night Football

Tony Kornheiser in the booth? Call me crazy, but give me Dennis Miller any day!

The Corruption Continues

I have just registered a page on MySpace.


I feel so dirty.

Happy Birthday Modern World!

Over at Tammy Bruce's blog, they are celebrating the IBM PC's 25th birthday. Surprisingly, as I browse the internet, they seem to be the only ones doing so. This is a pretty historical occasion.
While there were PC's prior to this (among them Apple and Commodore) the IBM machine was to dominate the market. Today there are only two viable forms of operating system, the IBM type and the Apple type. Recently Apple was forced to include the PC OS in their newest computers, or risk going the way of betamax. Apple and betamax have interesting similarities...both are arguably better systems than the ones they were dominated by. However the fact that their rivals were open source, and thus adopted by a wider range of hardware producers and content producers, ultimately meant their marginalization.

As I've written before, even though I went off to college with a manual typewriter, I cannot imagine life without a PC and the internet anymore. I now possess a machine (the one I am typing on) that is more powerful than all of the computers NASA sent to the Moon combined. It boggles the mind if you think about it. It's almost scary to think about what is coming next.

I'm Getting Old..........

Everytime I get out of bed anymore I feel like the Nick Nolte character in the beginning of North Dallas Forty. I wish I had the drugs he had.......

Treasure Hunters

Air Force made it to the finals! Yeah! Damn the Genuises made it also...that sucks.

Good Luck Joe!

The Democratic primary for Sen. Lieberman's Senate seat is tomorrow. While a dark part of me is hoping the Kossak moonbats win, and drag the Democratic Party closer to oblivion, the responsible part of me hopes the adults vote. The Democrats have been throwing the responsible adults out of their party for twenty years. If a dedicated liberal with a solid liberal voting record like Lieberman is thrown out of the party, the game is over man.

Update 8/8/06: Well Joe has lost and Markos over at Kos is already showing how classy he is. Look, I don't like any of these guys..but where are Shrum, Begala, Carville, Brazille, Davis and the rest of the professional Democrats? How can they be just sitting back and allowing these petulant moonbats destroy their party? Watch Sen. Clinton closely for the next week or so. She is going to have to either capitulate to the nutsroots and moonbats like Kerry and Gore have already done, or she is the natural next target.

Origins?

Where do the Kossacks, the nutroots and their anger come from? I have been reading a lot about the Clinton days recently, written by those on the left. (I have already about it from those on the right) I have come to believe that the Kossacks are a concious and unconcious reaction to Pres. Clinton, his presidency, and the shame he brought to the Democratic Party combined with an inability to accept the results of the last two presidential elections.

1) Pres. Clinton was a democrat, but he rejected the label of liberal, and claimed a middle ground. In truth he governed mostly as a conservative. So the left feels cheated in that the only Democratic President in 20 years might as well have been a Republican.

2) Because Pres. Clinton was a Democrat, he was defended and protected by the left. Even though he was a sexual predator and a rapist, the feminists defended him. Even though he launched military attacks to distract the public from his personal sins, the left defended him. Even as he destroyed "welfare as we know it", they supported him. Most of the left has not yet confessed to the shame they must have felt, probably not even to themselves. But it must be affecting them.

3) Pres. Clinton was seen as an invention and a tool of the Democratic staus quo. In order to ensure there is no repeat, the staus quo has to be destroyed and the party radicalized. The first step was organizing the nutroots. The second step was getting Dean appointed as party chairman. The third step is destroying Sen. Lieberman as a threat to the rest of the elected officials. The DLC has been marginalized. Things have gotten so bad in the Democratic Party that Sen. Feinstein is now seen as a voice of reason.

4) The Kossak left refuses to accept that they don't represent the will of the American people. They insist that the last two elections were stolen. Even the liberal MSM now admits that Pres. Bush would win Florida in 2000 under any rational form of recount. And if Ohio's electoral votes were excluded for fraud in 2004, as the Congressional Black Caucus attempted to do, Pres. Bush would still win the election. I am genuinely worried about the reaction of the moonbats when they lose in 2006 and 2008.

The Democratic Party is now in control of adolescents. One day the adults will take back over. Hopefully before too much damage is done to the party, and the American political system.

What's Good for the Goose....

...evidently isn't good for the gander.

Remember when Sen. Torricelli of New Jersey was finally shamed into withdrawing from his 2002 Senate re-election race? According to New Jersey law, it was too late to replace his name on the ballot, but the Democratically controlled government of New Jersey did it anyway with Frank Lautenberg, a former Senator who won the election. The Democratic argument was:

The issue before the court is a simple one: what is in the best interests of the citizens of New Jersey," said Bonnie Watson Coleman, chairperson of the N.J. Democratic State Committee. "Our voters deserve a meaningful choice, and the law provides for that choice."

The New Jersey Supreme Court sided with the Democrats, and the U.S. Supreme Court refused to hear the case.

Now fast forward to 2006. Rep. Delay of Texas won the Republican primary for his Congressional district, but resigned from Congress in June and moved to Virginia. The Republicans tried to replace his name on the ballot, (a full 4 1/2 months before the election unlike Torricelli's 51 days) but the Democrats challenged them. The courts have ruled that Delay's name must remain on the ballot. The Republicans are appealing to the U.S. Supreme Court. The issue is:

If DeLay is ineligible, under state law, he can be replaced on the ballot. If he withdraws, however, it is too late to replace him, according to state law.

So currently, the issue is whether Delay is eligible, even though he has moved to Virginia. Interestingly, Lautenberg was allowed to replace Torricelli on the ballot, even though it was a clear violation of New Jersey law to allow him to do so. Here it appears that Texas State laws will have to be followed.

Now the Democratic position is:

Republicans "want to say, 'You're thwarting people's right to choose their candidate.' Baloney. He's the one who decided to cut and run," said Boyd Richie, spokesman for the Texas Democratic Party.

Can you say hypocrite? I knew you could.

Movie Editing

I'm watching The Man in the Iron Mask on TV right now. This version is much different from the theatrical release and the VHS version. (I used to show it for my History class so I am quite familar with it)

This version is much better in many ways. The additional scenes add depth to some characters and improve the plot.

One thing many people don't realize, or at least don't think about, is that every movie has extra scenes that don't make the final version of the movie. Sometimes some of these scenes are used to create a director's cut, and often some are used to turn an R rated movie into something that can be show on TV. (Sometimes this can be a disaster. Take Cheech & Chong's Next Movie, the TV version exchanges diamonds for marijuana, and so mangles the movie it literally makes no sense. I have never understood whey they tried to show it on TV.)

With the coming of age of DVDs, and especially special edition DVDs, I'd like to see most movies released on DVD in three versions in the same package: the theatrical release, the director's cut, and a version with as many of the scenes included as possible.

This way we preserve the historical version, we allow the director to put forth his vision, and we provide fans with as much as the story and film as possible.

He's a Leader, not an Actor

I have posted about the latest Angelides ad on my alternate blog.


Update: Surprise, surprise. Looks like many Hollywood moguls, usually among the Democratic Party's most loyal (and generous) supporters have decided to support the actor.

Democratic Meltdown?

We have become accustomed to the Democrats viciously attacking and insulting Republicans and Conservatives. It's actually kind of expected now. But they have now begun assaulting their own. The first inkling of this were the attacks on Zell Miller, an honorable man who had served the Democratic Party faithfully. However when he strayed from the mandated message, he was cast out and castigated. Now they are going after Joe Lieberman, simply because he supports the war in Iraq.

Now I am not a big fan of Sen. Lieberman. He is far too liberal for me. But he is a worthy opponent, and has served the Democratic Party well. He was a Democratic candidate for President, and a former Democratic Vice-Presidential nominee.

This is how a Democratic operative (and Hollywood producer) treated Sen. Lieberman yesterday. (as an aside, I find this much more egregious than what Mel Gibson did, and the silence from Hollywood and the left is illustrative)

This is how the main Leftwing blog on the internet treated Sen Lieberman today.

Sen. Lieberman in blackface, and in gay poses. (I thought the left was supposed to like gay people?) Does he deserve this? Hell no. He's one of the few Democrats who acts like an adult.

Don't even start to make the arguement that Hamsher and Kos are insignificant. These are the people who are fighting a war for the soul of the Democratic Party, and by many accounts winning. This is currently the face of the leftwing of the Democratic Party, and potentially the Democratic Party as a whole in the future. That is certainly their goal. As a Conservative I revel in the destruction of the Democratic Party. However as an American I despair at what is happening to our political system.

Mel Gibson Furor

Everyone is seriously overreacting to Mel Gibson's words and actions this weekend. Here is what I wrote in the comments over at Althouse:

Given what the American public has accepted and forgiven in the past, I think people are seriously overreacting. Was anything Mel reportedly said, before he contritely apologised, any worse than what Jesse Jackson has said? (Hymietown or otherwise? and Jackson still has never truly apologised for those remarks). I bet you, if this had been Michael Moore, Rob Reiner, Alec Baldwin or some other liberal darling, this would have already blown over. Mel is being punished because he is not a typical Hollywood lefty.Hell, look at what Woody Allen has said and done, and his movies are still being released. If Roman Polanski ever dared to come back, the left would sprint to embrace him.Get a grip people.

Hi Ho, Hi Ho, It's Back to Work I go......

Well, I'm back at work again. Wednesday was a non-student work day, and then we had the kids on Thursday and Friday. It's been the most stressful opening of school for me in at least six years. Restless sleep and physical and mental stress.

1) A new classroom..they forced me to change classrooms, so I was presented with a pile of tables, bookcases, chairs and file cabinets. Plus the teacher in the room before me didn't move all of her crap out last year, so I had to deal with that too. (in fact there is stuff in there from the last four teachers to use that room)

2) A new grade level...they forced me to change from the 7th grade to the 8th grade. This means a new curriculum, new teaching partners, and (as it turns out) 60% of my students I had last year.

3) A new prep period. They gave me the second period prep..the worst one. And to top it off, they are only four of us on it, so I will have to give it up to cover the classes of absent teachers more often.

4) A new textbook...and it isn't here yet. So we are going to use the old one for the first trimester, and then switch for the second and third trimesters.

I have survived the first two days..only 178 more to go.

Plame/Wilson Lawsuit

While reading an article by Byron York today on the Plame/Wilson lawsuit one quote stood out for me. It was a quote from the Wilson's lawyer:

“No matter how many times you and I go around,” says Erwin Chemerinsky, “it’s our position that there was a concerted effort by Cheney, Rove, and Libby to punish Joseph Wilson.”

What is so telling about this quote is the fact that the whole Wilson case is founded on belief, and not evidence. Wilson knows they were out to get him no matter what the evidence says. And do you know why he is so sure about that? Because it is exactly what Wilson himself would have done if he had been in their place.

The left's predilection for projection has become more and more pronounced over the years. When you examine the left's actions, and compare it to their rhetoric, it is transparently clear that most of the accusations and denunciationstions from the left are based almost exclusively on the left projecting their own strategy and tactics to the right. Since they are the "good guys", and they would be willing to do it, the "bad guys" on the right must be doing it.

What the Hell is Up with Betty Nguyen?

For some reason, for the last month or so, half of my referrals from google have been for a post I wrote about Betty Nguyen a year ago.

1) How the hell is it that my post is still anywhere near the top of the list when you do a Google search of Betty Nguyen?

2) Why the hell is everybody suddenly doing Google searches for her?

I Hope Nobody is Surprised

It has just been announced that the lesbian couple who filed the lawsuit to legalize gay marriage in Massachusetts has separated. Now I don't wish ill on anybody, or take delight in other's misfortunes, but I could have predicted this. (and probably did) It is a simple fact that the vast majority of homosexual relationships do not endure. Remember the much celebrated relationship of Melissa Etheridge and Julie Cypher? How about Ellen DeGeneris and Anne Heche? Now to be fair, celebrity heterosexual marriages frequently end also. But these three relationships were held up to us as examples of why gay marriage should be legal, and that homosexuals were just as committed to each other as heterosexuals. That is simply not the truth. The truth is, male homosexuals are usually promiscuous (one of the more prominent, Andrew Sullivan actually makes the argument for gay marriage, but also makes an argument that men (hetero and homo) are incapable of being monogamous and that that is OK) and lesbian relationships are very unstable.

Liberal Hypocrisy Pt. 2,000,087,192

The world's leftwing is all up in arms over Pres. Bush's "massage" of Germany's chancellor. While it apparently was over-familiar (she does seem to be startled and uncomfortable) it hardly rises to the level of sexual harassment, which some of the more vocal harridans are calling it.

Yet these same people were the ones sticking up for Pres. Clinton and dismissing his de facto and de jure sexual harassment in the Oval Office, and his probable (since she never got her day in court) rape of Juanita Brodderick.

Mideast Today

Let me make a few statements.

I believe that the Palestinians got the shaft from the British 90 years ago.

I believe that the Israelis, if they did not invent modern terrorism, certainly taught it to the Arabs. I totally agree with John Derbyshire's comments here.

I believe that Israel has the right to exist, but the exact same reasoning and logic demand that Palestine has a right to exist.

I believe that for at least the last twenty years, the Palestinians have been remarkably stupid and counterproductive. They have been ill-served by their leadership and their religious leaders.

I believe that Israel has been totally justified in it's actions over the past week, and would support their invasion of Lebanon, Syria or Iran, as I believe all three have committed acts of war against Israel.

It Just Gets Worse

First Rove goes to the La Raza convention, now Pres. Bush goes to the NAACP. What is next, Condi Rice going to a Klan rally?

Of course, some idiot starts heckling him. The NAACP is not only a racist organization, it's officials have made some very offensive remarks about Pres. Bush personally. They have called him a racist, associated him with people who dragged a black man to death, and called his administration the Taliban wing of America. And yet he saw fit to give the organization legitimacy it does not deserve, and pander to it by agreeing to signing the outdated and offensive Voting Rights Act.

When he embraced Julian Bond at the end, I nearly threw up. Julian Bond is among the worst of the racists, and the worst of the rhetorical bomb throwers.

Once more politics wins out over principal.

Calif. Driving

OK, I said most of this before...but I just can't stand it. The left lane is the passing lane. If you can move to the right without slowing down...do so. If there are cars behind you, and no cars in front of you, speed up or move to the right. If three cars in a row pass you on your right, take the hint, and either speed up, or move over to the right.

There are four problems that slow traffic down:

1) trucks - not much we can do here, but I am willing to consider limiting trucks to non-peak hours. Cars and trucks alike ignore dedicated truck lanes.

2) slow cars - I discussed them above

3) scared drivers & 4) stupid drivers - most accidents are not caused by fast drivers, aggressive drivers or confident drivers. The problem is the stupid and scared drivers. They screw things up for everyone and interfere with the natural flow of traffic. Apart from drunk drivers (who in my opinion qualify as stupid drivers) I gurantee you most accidents are caused by someone doing something stupid (changing lanes without looking for example) or slow drivers gettting in the away. I don't know what to do about 3 & 4, but we all know they are the biggest problem on the road.

Summer TV

I've been watching Trasure Hunters and VH1's World Series of Pop Culture this summer. My guilty pleasures. The commercials for Heroes this fall look interesting. I've cut way back on my TV watching..but football season is coming up........

Wouldn't You Know.....

Joe Wilson and his wife Valerie Plame filed a lawsuit against Libby Rove and others last week. Fox TV got an exclusive interview with Robert Novak, whose article started it all. Who did MSNBC get their exclusive with? Why Joe Wilson of course.

Dancing Machine

I went out for dinner/dancing with a bunch of friends from work last night. We had 15 for dinner, and 12 for dancing. We found a place nearby that has a DJ that plays mainly 70's and 80's music on Thur and Sat.

I didn't get home until 2:00 AM. I'm getting too old for this shit. My knees hurt, my head hurts, ....what the hell has happend? (besides 200 extra pounds) I used to go dancing almost every week. I guess I'll just have to work myself into shape. I definitely danced more than all the other guys there, but Joy just wears my ass out. The girl loves to dance even more than I do...


I gotta go find some gatoraid and aspirin.

Shame on you Mr. Rove

Yesterday Mr. Rove addressed a meeting of the National Council of La Raza, a racist organization that is brazen enough to blatantly call themselves "The Race" and openly advocate racist ideas. This is worse than addressing a Klan rally, because at least the Klan doesn't advocate treason. Most Republicans refuse to address the NAACP because of their racist and politically biased rhetoric. La Raza is worse than the NAACP. One day the Republican Party will look back at yesterday with immense shame, hopefully soon.

Unless the Republican nominee in 2008 openly repudiates this type of pandering to illegal immigrants and racists, the Republican Party just lost my vote in 2008.

World Diving Championships 2006 (World Cup 2006)

OK I get it. Football (soccer) is the world's sport. I've lived overseas, and I've played soccer in the US and the UK. It's a great game, very athletic. Usually low scoring, but very enjoyable to watch if you know the game.

However it is the only sport in which acting is rewarded as much as, or even more than, athletic ability. It is a well known, established and accepted fact, that soccer players fake fouls and injuries. It is considered by most to be part of the game.

A French player just faked a foul in the penalty box, and it was quite obvious that he did so. A penalty kick was awarded, and now France leads 1-0. The player who took a dive will be considered a hero, especially if his goal is decisive.

That is simply wrong. He should be held up to scorn by the sporting world. FIFA should punish him for his actions.

Update: Justice is served, Italy wins on penalty kicks.

Birth of the Party

While reading Ann Coulter's newest book (Godless) this morning, I was suddenly struck by a revelation. If you look at the founding of, first president of, and initial platform of, the political parties, you can actually see the pattern from the beginning.

The Republican Party was formed in 1854 when the Whigs refused to oppose slavery. Freeing the Black man, and treating all men as equal was literally the reason for the Republican Party. The Republican Party also supported education, free homesteads for farmers, and the modernization of the country's infrastructure.

The first Republican president was Abraham Lincoln, a man dedicated to preserving the United States, and responsible for freeing the slaves. A man who promoted mercy and conciliation towards the eventually defeated South. A man so great he is on the Penny and the $5 bill, not to mention Mt Rushmore. Widely considered to be one of our greatest Presidents. His nicknames are Honest Abe and the Great Emancipator. He re-established a system of national banks.

The Democratic Party was formed by Andrew Jackson in reaction to what he believed to be a stolen election in 1824. It was formalized after his electoral victory in 1828. The party claimed the heritage of Thomas Jefferson, and the belief in civic virtue and the yeoman farmer. They were opposed to cities, banks and industrialization.

The first Democratic president was Andrew Jackson, a man most famous for his victories in the war of 1812, and in various conflicts against the Indians. His presidency is most remembered for two things: his destruction of the national bank, and the strengthening of the spoils system in American politics. He appears on the $20 bill. He was known as Old Hickory.

Happy 4th!!

Happy Birthday America!!


Thank you once again to those dead white European males, our Founding Fathers, who have created the most free nation ever to grace the face of this Earth.

The end of the Democratic Party?

First they kicked out Zell Miller. Then they attacked the DLC and the only Democrat to get elected president in the last 25 years. Al Gore, who used to be a pretty conservative Democrat (hell at one time he was against abortion) is now a leftwing wacko. The latest is that the whole Daily Kos/moonbat wing of the party is trying to run Joe Lieberman out of the party. Things are getting real ugly. We may actually be witnessing the death of the Democratic Party. As much as I hate Hillary, she may be the Democratic Party's last chance to remain viable.

Save the Penny!!!

They're talking about getting rid of the penny again. It seeems it costs 1.2 cents to make the 1 cent coin. Incidentally, it costs more than 5 cents to make a nickel, but no one is talking about getting rid of those. If it's hitting the penny and nickel already, the dime and quarter can't be far behind.

We almost had that one problem once before, but they changed most of the copper in a penny over to zinc. Apparently there is no metal suitable to switch to that is cheap enough.

I have an idea however. If it costs 1.2 cents to make a penny, have a national penny redemption day (or week), say around Lincoln's birthday, in which people can redeem their hordes of pennies for 1.1 cent apiece. The national mint saves a little money, but it gets all of those millions of stored pennies back in circulation, and the mint wouldn't have to make any for a year or two.

Superman Returns

Just got back from the film. It was pretty good, but way too long at 2 hrs 40 min. They could have easily cut out an hour of the chick stuff and the artsy shots. I liked it much better than the Christoper Reeve movies. (although I would have preffered Hackman to Spacey as Luthor...although Spacey didn't do a bad job) I prefer Kate Bosworth as a brunette also.


Still no where near as good as the Spiderman films, Sin City or even the X-Men movies.