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Islam Strikes Again

Just a quick note...another terrorist attack in Iraq...one in India not so long ago, a few others in various parts of the world. All attacks by...wait for this...muslims! Wow. Islam, again, the biggest threat to the world. We'll continue to see attacks by Muslims...too bad we have so many that refuse to look at the history of the deadly religion, too many that want to keep calling it a religion of peace. Remember kids, Jesus never fought a war, Muhammed- well, that's about all he did...

By the way...anyone see the fat kid with the huge titties that got arrested by the FBI for changing the blaster worm and spreading it? The worm that has caused me to get bounced off of a bunch of lists because the masked e mail addresses that automated systems think is actually coming from me (the networks are infected, not my computer), and I've had to hit delete, delete, delete about 1, 000 times! I'd to personally have a chance to kick this idiot in his big boobs. Nice haircut, btw, buddy...

If people don't shut up about Hillary 'corruption is my middle name' Clinton, I will scream. Dems and Republicans alike say that she's a terrible disease on both parties and the entire country. When leftie Susan Estrich says you need to go away for good, because you're sucking all the oxygen up, you know you're bad. But, like her husband, she's only interested in her obscenely large ego.

On that subject- what is with the democrats and their crazy opinions on Califorina? I have yet to hear a democrat say anything good about the recall. They all say that it's a right wing conspiracy, and that it's killing democracy. Idiots! It's what democracy is about. Davis lied...he's increased taxes AND spending by huge amounts...he's corrupt. Democracy is all about the people taking back control!

Haiiii Yah!

Walter and Perry

Aren't Walter and Perry just adorable?

Pizza club members say aye.
walter: 'aye'
perry: 'aye'
walter: 'aye'
perry: 'aye'
walter: 'aye'
perry: 'aye'
walter: 'aye'
perry: 'aye'
walter: 'aye'

Umm...btw...gross.
"If you are dust-sensitive, especially if you have allergies and/or asthma, you can reduce some of your misery by creating a "dust-free" bedroom. Dust may contain molds, fibers, and dander from dogs, cats, and other animals, as well as tiny dust mites. These mites, which live in bedding, upholstered furniture, and carpets, thrive in the summer and die in the winter. They will, however, continue to thrive in the winter if the house is warm and humid. The particles seen floating in a shaft of sunlight include dead mites and their waste products, The waste products actually provoke the allergic reaction."

Psycho

Check out this complete psycho. I didn't stay on the site long enough to see where this person is from, but let's hope it's not here in the U.S., since we're the biggest terrorist group in the world. We designed the entire world economic system according to this fool, and because of the way the world economy works, we're causing the deaths of millions of people...on purpose, because we're all evil like that. Again...what a psycho. Too bad he has no grip on reality.

Boston Public- someone end it!

I just saw the preview of the season premiere episode of Boston Public. Some teacher sees what she says was a rape...the girl says it wasn't, that she likes it rough...the teacher goes to the police, even tho the girl keeps saying it wasn't rape. Then, the girl confronts the teacher, asking her 'how could you do this to me?'

Now, that would work as an episode of a tv series...yes. But- anyone watch this show? Before the show even aired one episode of its first rseason, they couldn't decide whether it was a drama or a comedy...or both. One ad would portray the show as Fox's new hit high school drama...the next would make it out to be big time drama in a tough high school.

The episodes (I have seen) are like this too...some are very comedic, all nice stuff...and then some are nonstop mayhem. And, how on earth do this many bad things happen at one school? You'd think this was the worst school in the country...probably the world! To the writers of this show- make up your minds! And, ontop of that, get real! Only so many bad things can happen to one school...the writing is getting very very ridiculous.

This used to be a good show, but I had to stop watching when there was always a shooting, and a rape, and an abusive mother, and this and that..on and on and on.

When will the suits get it right with television? Maybe they do have it right- that god awful piece of crap show, Friends is one of the most popular shows ever, even tho none of the cast should have ever been allowed into Hollywood to begin with.

28 Days Later

I went to see 28 DAYS LATER yesterday. I got there at 4:35, I guess...and when I came in, there was something playing...I had no idea what it was. All I do know is that there was no one else in there, and the lights were all out. It couldn't have been the movie, I told myself, so I was barely even paying attention to what was going on.

After that thing ended, the lights came up, and I thought to myself- that was the ending! I went to the concession stand and told them, and they said there's an alternate ending added onto the end. This is the first time this has been done (I think.) I went back in and watched the movie...really good movie. I kept thinking to myself that it had an odd look to it...and it should, since I just read that besides the final scene, all of the movie was shot on digital cameras and not film. It sort of looked cheapish, but mostly looked more raw and real. Interesting story about an infection that wipes out London and maybe the rest of the world, and a few survivors trying to fight off the infected, who want to kill you! and make it to safety. I'll write a review sometime...

They played this ridiculous 'commercial' before the movie...had some guy who works as a set painter, talking about how film is wonderful and how magical it is...and how he's worked on all these big budget films painting sets and stuff. I thought it was going to be some thing about how great film is...and that's that, but, he started to talk about piracy and how it won't hurt the big guys in the business who make millions, but it WILL hurt the small guys like him who do sets and stuff. That was RIDICULOUS. Some movies get downloaded online (which has to be what they're referring to, since piracy outside of the download aspect isn't that big in the U.S.), so the set painters are gonna be out of a job? Come on! That's as ridiculous as the government telling us that buying some weed (which I do not condone!) helps fund terrorism. Yeah, and like I said, buying Kraft Foods products pays to kill smokers (since Kraft is owned by Altria, formerly known as Philip Morris.) Anyhow, I just had to laugh and wonder how they have the balls to try to get us to think that some poor set painter is going to be homeless because I download some crappy quality movie online.

I've been playing Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six on playstation lately...I'm up to mission 11. Somewhat interesting, but it's all the same, and it's not very complicated. Shoot some terrorists, save someone...shoot some more terrorists, walk around in circles FOREVER on some missions trying to find what you're supposed to find, and on and on...

Well, I'm off to watch Dr. Katz...not to mention I need to watch the rest of THEY so I can take it back to the rental place.

Gordon

Gordon (Barenaked Ladies) is a great album. I haven't heard much from them in years (maybe two songs on MTV), and I don't buy their albums, but I have Gordon, and it's nice.

My favorite song is probably Box Set. If you check them out in the liner notes (or on the original album cover), they look cooler then than they do now...in a way. They look so 80's, even tho this is a 90's CD, I think? I'm not sure.

Anyhow, it's good music.

I was listening to this CD and a bunch of others- Dave Matthews Band, Mighty Mighty Bosstones (their CD, Let's Face It, is great), and others...even popped out the Robyn CD. The only thing I remember about that girl is that I was in high school, and I always saw her video, and you could totally see her underwear when she was sitting in that chair. Blatant panty shots, people. I wonder what happened to her?

I feel dizzy, which means I need to go lie down and watch THEY...maybe. Or maybe I'll watch it tomorrow...

Gobstoppers

I got like 10 little packets of gobstoppers. I love these things. Soon, all my teeth will rot out.

I had a little problem with my movable type, as many of you have noticed, I'm sure. I have 73 entries I had, that I lost (well, I lost them in the database, I have them all in html files.) I will add the 73 to this new blog probably, and I have 200 more from my first blog that I'll add to either a second blog using MT, or I'll add them all just html pages in the archives somehow...not sure which. No matter what, it's gonna take some time to do all of them. Annoying!

I was looking into this stuff today. Might be cool...What's the difference between an arts degree and a science degree? Ummm, shouldn't film be an arts degree? I don't get it...

My computer won't stop freezing...I took out the tv tuner card that refuses to work, and I made sure the video card wasn't loose...I need to kick it up to 256MB of RAM. This machine has a mere 64MB. I cleaned the dust out of the fan vent, to see if it was overheating...nothing helped. Ran diskkeeper, antivirus, etc. It's working now (finally), but give it time...it'll start freeing every ten seconds soon enough. I need a new computer. 2Ghz, cd/dvd burner, tv tuner card, 80GB hard drive, flat screen monitor. Buy me one people...do it...

I have the movie THEY on DVD from the video store. It looks like a Darkness Falls ripoff, and many reviewers said the same thing...we'll see if it sucks or not tonight or tomorrow morning.

I need to call that place back Wednesday to see about the job. I called Friday and the lady said they were in the preliminary process and hadn't filled the position yet, which was odd, since she told me to call Friday, because that's when she would decide...it seemed weird, because she sorta acted like it was odd I called Friday. Who knows...

Well, I'm off.

Al Franken- the lies this lying liar tells.

I love it. Al Franken, who attacked Bill O'Reilly, calling Bill a liar, because Bill made a mistake, is a proven liar as we see here in the article from Michelle Malkin (what did she do to her hair? she looks ten years older with the new 'do!)

What's so funny about abstinence, Al Franken?
by Michelle Malkin

August 22, 2003

Left-wing "comedian" Al Franken got tripped up by some big fat lies this week. He's sorry he got caught, but smugly silent about making fun of countless American kids who have taken abstinence vows.

Thanks to Court TV's Smoking Gun Web site (www.thesmokinggun.com), we now know that the Saturday Night Live leftover abused his position as an "academic fellow" (now that's funny) at the Harvard University Kennedy School of Government's Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy in a puerile attempt to trick Attorney General John Ashcroft into publicly sharing his personal experience with abstinence.

Franken urged Ashcroft to share his abstinence story for "a book about abstinence programs in our public schools entitled, 'Savin' It!'" (lie). He assured Ashcroft that the book would document how the Bush administration is "setting the right example for America's youth" (lie). And he breezily informed Ashcroft that he had already "received wonderful testimonies from HHS Secretary Tommy Thompson, William J. Bennett, White House Press Secretary Ari Fleischer, Senator Rick Santorum, and National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice" (lie, lie, lie, lie, lie).

Franken sent the bogus solicitation to Ashcroft on Harvard's letterhead earlier this summer, without the Shorenstein Center's knowledge or approval. A few weeks later, Franken sent an apology to Ashcroft. In truth, Franken confessed, he deliberately deceived Ashcroft while trying to gather material for his "satirical" anti-conservative book being rushed to print this week, "Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them: A Fair and Balanced Look at the Right". Franken sheepishly informed Ashcroft that the book will contain "only one or two chapters dealing with abstinence-only education."

"My biggest regret is sending the letter on Shorenstein Center stationery," Franken sniveled. "I am very embarrassed to have put them in this awkward and difficult position, and I ask you not to hold it against the Center, the Kennedy School, or Harvard in general."

So Franken is remorseful about offending his high-minded liberal benefactors at Harvard, who supported his book "research" under the guise of "bridging the gap between journalists and scholars" and "helping the press improve its role in democracy." But he has nothing to say about thoughtlessly ridiculing a growing movement that promotes self-restraint, strong morals, fidelity and good health.

To the dismay of kiddie condom-pushers in Hollywood and the ivory tower, abstinence education programs such as Project Reality, True Love Waits and Virginity Rules are rapidly gaining popularity among American youth. Hundreds of thousands of young men and women have signed chastity pledges as part of both faith-based and secular programs. Celebrity role models include 2003 Miss America Erika Harold and basketball star A.C. Green.

Professor Franken will no doubt argue in his new book that abstinence programs have no scientific basis. As if the failed contraceptive-centric model of the past two decades does? A peer-reviewed Pediatrics journal showed that sex-ed programs "neither increased contraceptive use, nor reduced teenage pregnancy rates." A study of 23 school-based sex-education programs, published in the May/June 1994 issue of Public Health Reports, concluded much the same. More recently, a pro-sex education study found in 2001 that out of some 250 programs, only eight (a whopping 3 percent) purportedly reduced "sexual risk-taking, pregnancy, and childbearing among teens."

Another study published in the Journal of School Health noted that "while most adolescents know condoms provide one effective way to avoid HIV infection, less than half of sexually active adolescents ages 15-17 used condoms consistently." The annual failure rate for condoms used as birth control is about 10 percent for adults; the figure doubles for teenage users.

When all else fails, health officials celebrate the number of birth-control devices distributed to teens as the ultimate measure of efficacy. But this is like measuring the effectiveness of welfare programs by the number of checks passed out.

Ridiculing chaste young people and their abstinent role models as oddballs and prudes may score Franken a few points at Hollywood and Harvard cocktail parties. But if this intellectual poseur thinks he can improve democracy through nasty pranksterism and mockery, the only one he's kidding is himself.

Also, check out Jacoby's newest article. I cannot stop laughing at Davis and cronies who go on and on about how all of this is a Republican conspiracy...even tho, the democrats aren't supporting him either, and he's got the lowest ratings of any governor in state history. He lied to the people...he has a bad record of giving contracts to only those who helped him get elected...he's crooked, face it, folks.

CALIFORNIA'S REASONABLE RECALL
By Jeff Jacoby
The Boston Globe

August 24, 2003

http://www.boston.com/news/globe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2003/08/24/californias_reasonable_recall/


George Will and George Stephanopoulos, the ideological yin and yang of ABC's "This Week," normally don't agree on much. But they are as one in dismissing California's recall election as preposterous.

"A terrible idea," Will scoffs. "An army of disgruntled voters exercising their ridiculous right to utter a collective 'Oops!' " Stephanopoulos, echoing California Democrats, derides "the whole freak-show nature, joke nature" of the campaign.

They are hardly the only ones with nothing good to say about the upcoming vote on whether to replace Governor Gray Davis. Newsweek mocks the recall as a "California circus" and "madness," while Time describes it as "the most surreal spectacle since the 2000 Florida recount." In the Aug. 19 Los Angeles Times, Larry Sabato, an oft-quoted scholar from the University of Virginia, pronounced it "tyranny of the mob" -- "popular but destructive." Two days earlier, a different academic -- Bruce Cain of Berkeley -- weighed in with a piece calling it "an accident waiting to happen."

To Ted Koppel, who took up the subject on "Nightline," the recall campaign is "a train wreck" that Iraqis must be chortling over. The Economist sees in it "another step away from representative democracy." The editor of The American Prospect, a left-wing journal, slams the approaching vote as a "new-age coup d'etat," while California's state librarian writes it off as "some kind of collective nervous breakdown." Peter Schrag, a noted California journalist, characterizes it as "tragedy, farce, and a lot more . . . as portentous as it is bizarre."

Governor Davis is against the recall, of course; he fumes that it is "undemocratic." On the other hand, former congressman and White House chief of staff Leon Panetta fumes that it is "democracy run amok." And The Washington Post's David Broder, an adamant foe of direct democracy, denounces it as a "nearly unprecedented perversion of representative government" and "the byproduct of almost everything that has gone wrong in our political system."

Harsh words. But if the recall is really as dreadful as all that, why on earth did 1.6 million Californians sign petitions to put it on the ballot? And why is the turnout on Oct. 7 expected to be higher than the 45 percent that voted in the general election last November? Is it just possible that California's voters may actually know what they're doing?

You'd never know it from the media coverage, which has mostly painted the recall campaign as a wacky Left Coast carnival, but there is in fact a strong case to be made for Davis's recall. When he ran for re-election last year, he assured Californians that the state's budget problems were modest and manageable. Only afterward did he come clean: California was in a terrible fiscal predicament, the worst in its history. The state's budget gap soon climbed to $38 billion, more than the deficits of all the other states combined. So dire was California's condition that Standard & Poor's downgraded its bond rating to just above junk status.

Moreover, Californians remember Davis's disastrous supervision of electricity deregulation in his first term; many are also put off by his voracious fundraising, and his reputation for demanding contributions from anyone seeking to do business with the state. It is not for nothing that Davis is the most unpopular governor in California's history.

Whether all this adds up to a compelling case to recall him is a serious question for serious voters, and the campaign deserves more serious coverage than it has gotten. Yes, there are some ludicrous publicity hounds on the ballot, and yes, there is a decided only-in-California aura to the candidacy of Arnold Schwarzenegger. But that doesn't detract from the gravity of California's condition or the legitimacy of the recall as a vehicle for repairing it. One of the world's largest and most important political entities is in the midst of a leadership crisis. It is irresponsible and cynical for the press to be treating it as a circus.

The pundits' dyspeptic disapproval of California's recall procedure is meritless. Why should Californians be condemned for making use of a provision that has been in their constitution since 1911? They have not exactly been promiscuous with it: This will be the first statewide recall election in California history. If successful, it will mark only the second time a sitting governor anywhere has been recalled. (The first was North Dakota's Lynn Frazier, who was ousted in 1921.)

For all the talk of "democracy run amok," voters in states that have the recall use their power sparingly. Like the ability to pass or repeal laws via the ballot box -- initiative and referendum -- the recall is a restraint on the power of arrogant politicians and entrenched special interests. In a government based on checks and balances and the sovereignty of the people, it is prudent to have a constitutional tool for removing officeholders who are so abusive or incompetent that it would be unwise to leave them in power until the next election.

A train wreck? A coup? Far from it. California's recall campaign is simply an exercise in democratic accountability. Whatever the outcome on Oct. 7, the cause of self-government will advance
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(Jeff Jacoby is a columnist for The Boston Globe.)