The Blue Site

An Open Letter to the F.O.J.

Dear F.O.J.

You left abruptly...as you said you might. Hope that it was actually the phone dying and not you guys running into a bridge abutment or something else that's kinda bad like that.

Hopefully we will talk again...about Jesus and the good Jewish people.

Love

Josh

The Aqua Teen Hungerforce Site

I started the Aqua Teen Hungerforce site/page. It can be found here. I lost my copy of dreamweaver when I reinstalled windows, so I had to do it in Front Page Express- so, it's not that pretty right now...hopefully, I can fix that. Not to mention, the stuff on the front page was hard to write, and I don't like the way it sounds- but, it's difficult trying to explain the show to begin with, let alone explaining it on a site someone pops into...if they're visiting at all, I'm sure they know about the show as it is...but, who knows.

Anyhow, I wanted to share that. I just finished watching the movie OUR SONG on Black Starz (such an odd name for a network), and it's pretty good. It's an indie film, and the girl who plays Lanisha has gorgeous lips. That's all you need to know.

Michael Moore's Lies on C-SPAN

I was watching Book TV on C-Span 2 for a while, and Micheal Moore, the proven liar, was on there, talking about his newest book. I hate programs like this- the guy just sits there and lets Moore go on and on about how republicans are racists, hate women, want to destroy the enviroment, only care about the rich, are dumb, etc...and nothing happens. The guy doesn't confront or anything. That's because this is the format- ask the fat idiot about his book, let him answer. It's not fair tho, even if the show isn't made to be confrontational.

How can anyone listen to this liar say the nonsense he does? He goes on and on, telling as many lies as he can get in for each question asked- mentioning that only Americans say God Bless America (or whatever country you might live in), but I highly doubt that that's actually true. Even if mostly only Americans invoke the name of God and his blessings- it makes sense, this is a Christian nation founded on Christian beliefs and principles...there's a song called God Bless America! Of course we say, "god bless america." Moore says this is wrong, because we're arrogant to think god would bless us and not others. Nonsense. It's called pride, love for your country. It's only natural.

He also takes quotes from President Bush, twists them, and then claims that Bush is happy about 9/11 (he says so in his book- yet when asked about it on this show, he says that he doesn't think Bush is happy about 9/11.) See? He even changes his story, and admits it. He claims that Bush is basically a bad guy in general, and that he shouldn't invoke the name of God, or use religion in any manner, because it's basically a fallacy. He said something about finding it silly that Bush asks God to bless the USA while he's bombing Iraq. Get over it, Moore, the American public agreed with the President- Hussein needed to be dealt with. In truth, the UN itself agreed with that stance, but refused to carry thru with their warnings (remember 1441?)

I just think this guy is ridiculous. He keeps the bad haircut and the hat to make himself look like the common man, all the while talking about his apartment in Manhattan and his house in the woods in Michigan...about his trips to the NYC pad while working on one of his fallacious movies, or retreating to Michigan to write his books that are packed full of lies. He's a joke, and the sad fact is- he's the only one that doesn't realize it. I mean, he has his fans, who refuse to think for themselves, but, I think that, deep down, they realize he's full of crap too.

Family Guy Lessons

Watching Family Guy just now on Cartoon Network...and, it makes me wonder, how DO deaf people wake themselves up?

Also, Bill's newest article...

Schooling Around
By: Bill O'Reilly for BillOReilly.com
Wednesday, Nov 26, 2003

After a decade of pouring billions into the public school system, the final exams are in: American kids are not reading much better than they did ten years ago and there's no way to spin it otherwise.
The National Assessment of Educational Progress says that only 31% of fourth graders read at a "proficient" level; for eighth graders, the percentage rises to 32%.

This, of course, is a disaster and one that will lead to economic deprivation for millions of Americans in the coming decades.

Presidents Bush and Clinton both promised that more money would solve the educational problem, but that has turned out to be false. The reason so many American students can't read very well is two-fold: first, many parents do not encourage reading, allowing their kids unfettered access to TV, computers and crude music.

And second, discipline in many public schools is woeful. Students simply are not held accountable for behavior and academic performance.

Consider the following as a microcosm of what's going on. In the small town of Mt. Pleasant, Michigan, a 16-year-old high school junior named Alexander Smith stood up in the cafeteria of his public school and called the Principal, Betty Kirby, a "skank" and a "tramp."

Smith was suspended for ten days. Enter the American Civil Liberties Union which sued on Smith's behalf. The ACLU said his speech was a "parody," and therefore protected.

A federal judge agreed and struck down Michigan's verbal assault law. While the judge did rule that the school had a right to discipline Smith, it could not do so simply on his abusive statements alone.

This kind of nonsense is happening all over the USA. The ACLU, which I believe is the most dangerous organization in America, is on the prowl. It will bring litigation against anything it sees as limiting "freedom of expression," even if that expression demeans and humiliates school teachers and administrators.

Think about it. How can teachers possibly keep order in large schools when students know there are few consequences to outrageous behavior? Anything said can be described as "satire" or a "parody." In Houston, a survey of public school teachers finds 70% of them have been the targets of profane language by students. That's an awful lot of parody.

We are living in a hypercompetitive society where the kids who can read, think, and are respectful will prosper, while the children who do not learn those things will, most likely, find it difficult to earn a good living as adults.

The ACLU and its acolytes are succeeding in undermining almost every traditional institution in the country. Patriotism, spirituality, respect for authority, and basic moral values are all under siege from a well-funded, secular lobby that envisions a society free of judgments about personal behavior. And if that society falls apart in the process, so be it.

It is certainly true that you have a "right" to be an illiterate, unskilled person under our Constitution. You have a "right" to be irresponsible and to be lazy. Those attributes are strongly defended by the ACLU and some federal judges who believe responsible Americans should support irresponsible ones with their tax dollars. And anyone who disagrees with that thesis is immediately labeled a dreaded "conservative."

I feel badly for Alexander Smith and for the Principal he verbally assaulted. Both have been poorly served by our rapidly degenerating social system. Many Michigan kids now know they can call just about anybody a "skank" and a "tramp." But the question is, can they even spell those words?

No Es Lo Mismo

I was watching MTV Espanol (I so forget how to do that n with the tilde) earlier, and they played the same video two times in a row. It was some song called "No Es Lo Mismo" by Alenjandro Sanz...thank God they played it twice, do you know how hard it is to write down the song name and artist when it's all in Spanish? It's much harder than it seems...at least it is for me. Anyhow, it's a really good song. I got the lyrics (I do that with most songs), and I can't make ANY sense of it...not even the title itself, which translates out to:

Well, that's the title, plus a couple of words- and the translation using freetranslation.com

The full lyrics are below (read more), but I can't make sense of 99% of it.

I watched most of the awful horror movie, MIRROR MIRROR last night. It's the one I got on DVD from the library a few days ago. The chick who gets all scalded to death (at least I think she's dead...I still need to watch the end of it) is way hot.

I scanned an article from the newspaper about the Fox series, Arrested Development...it's all big, so I need to make it smaller (not too small, since you won't be able to even see what it says) and post it.

I mentioned At Home with the Braithwaites...and Sara Churm, who plays one of the daughters on the series is really cute. I had to find as many pictures of her as I could this afternoon.

You are so much people, that dime with whom I speak now ¿they do not see that they are not equals? You are that of: "remain you with me, I
promise to give you torment, to give you bad while. .."? I promise you, if you listen me girl, to give you art that is not the same thing
that: remain you and already we will see remain you and already we will see

Is not the same thing to be that to be the same thing is us to be that to be remained, ¡that goes! neither to be remained
is the same as stopping is not the same thing it will be that neither we are, neither we are neither we think to remain
but it is different to be conformed or to fight is not the same thing. ..es different

it is not the same thing art that to satiate is not the same thing to be just that ¡what just goes! ...(verás)
is not the same thing you that another, you inform you is not the same thing that know that there is people
that tries to confuse us but we have heart that is not the same as it we feel. ..es different

It is worth. ..que maybe I deserve it me good. ..pero my voice, you not it seeing door. ..y what they think of us..
léeme it lips, I do not be for sale

It is worth. ..que maybe we deserve it good. ..pero the voice, it do not we sell door. ..y what they think of us..
léeme it lips, to my mother is worth me

door and air that suffocate, that does not be a matter of the side that want to be that to be of a side or to
throw you to a side. ..(verás) do not know as telling you, is not the same thing, to live is it more dangerous
than has the life that say by television that there is loose a heart that is not the same as is dangerous.
..que is different

Vast the same thing is us or to suffice neither is the same thing, to say, to think, to impose or to send the black lists, the white
hands. ..(verás) is not the same thing does not it earn the one that has more desires.. I do not know if I explain myself? that
today does nobody it want to be the same as but gives you, is not like a "ismo"...es instinct

it is worth, that maybe I deserve it me good, but my voice you not it seeing door, and what they think of us
léeme the lips, I do not be for sale

it is worth, that maybe we deserve it good, but the voice it do not we sell door, and what they think of us
léeme the lips, to my mother is worth me

I have pomada pá tó the pains remedies for all types of errors also prescriptions pá the disillusionment (x2)

is not equal

it is worth. ... that maybe we deserve it good... but the voice it do not we sell door... and what they think
of us léeme the lips, I do not be for sale

it is worth... that maybe we deserve it good... but the voice it do not we sell door... and what they think of
us léeme the lips, to my mother is worth me

I have pomada pá tó the pains remedies for all types of errors also prescriptions pá the disillusionment

Taking Off

I think I mentioned watching part of this documentary, Taking Off, about some young girls who spend summers together at "fat" camp, before on Sundance, and I had the vcr set up to tape it when it aired this morning at 5 AM...BUT- I accidentally had the wrong tape in there, so it was at the very end of the tape, and it didn't tape but a half hour or less of it...

I just checked sundancechannel.com, and it says there are no airings of it listed...and it's not available on video or anything. Damn.

Don't ask me why, but I enjoyed watched the girls making these long lasting friendships at camp...all trying to keep the weight off. Call me weird, but it was endearing.

President Makes Suprise Visit to Iraq

I just got this breaking news e mail from CNN.

-- President Bush pays surprise visit to U.S.troops in Iraq.

I turned on Fox News, then went thru the other two cable news networks (MNBC, CNN) to get more information. That's a nice surprise for the troops in Iraq. It's fairly clear that Mr. Bush is a good man, and things like this do a lot for that image. It's nice to see someone who has strong convictions, morals, and is honest in The White House.

I just thought that was really nice, so I had to share...

I'm taping the first season of At Home with the Braithwaites...I watched the first episode, and I like it from what I have seen...

Thanksgiving Wishes from President Bush

A Thanksgiving Message from President George W. Bush

Each year on Thanksgiving, we gather with family and friends to thank God for the many blessings He has given us, and we ask God to continue to guide and watch over our country.

Almost 400 years ago, after surviving their first winter at Plymouth, the Pilgrims celebrated a harvest feast to give thanks. George Washington proclaimed the first National Day of Thanksgiving in 1789, and Abraham Lincoln revived the tradition during the Civil War. Since that time, our citizens have paused to express thanks for the bounty of blessings we enjoy and to spend time with family and friends. In want or in plenty, in times of challenge or times of calm, we always have reasons to be thankful.

America is a land of abundance, prosperity, and hope. We must never take for granted the things that make our country great: a firm foundation of freedom, justice, and quality; a belief in democracy and the rule of law; and our fundamental rights to gather, speak, and worship freely.

These liberties do not come without cost. Throughout history, many have sacrificed to preserve our freedoms and to defend peace around the world. Today, the brave men and women of our military continue this noble tradition. These heroes and their loved ones have the gratitude of our Nation.

On this day, we also remember those less fortunate among us. They are our neighbors and our fellow citizens, and we are committed to reaching out to them and to all of those in need in our communities.

This Thanksgiving, we again give thanks for all of our blessings and for the freedoms we enjoy every day. Our Founders thanked the Almighty and humbly sought His wisdom and blessing. May we always live by that same trust, and may God continue to watch over and bless the United States of America.

NOW, THEREFORE, I, GEORGE W. BUSH, President of the United States of America, by virtue of the authority vested in me by the Constitution and laws of the United States, do hereby proclaim Thursday, November 27, 2003, as a National Day of Thanksgiving. I encourage Americans to gather in their homes, places of worship, and community centers to share the spirit of understanding and prayer and to reinforce ties of family and community.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this twenty-first day of November, in the year of our Lord two thousand three, and of the Independence of the United States of America the two hundred and twenty-eighth.

- GEORGE W. BUSH

Kitchen Pics

I posted a few pics of the kitchen (from Wed afternoon) on my livejournal here. That's not even that much stuff out, as you can tell...but, I wanted to get some pics. Don't ask me why...

I went by the library and got the book SCAM, that I had on hold...and the Robert Crais book- the Last Detective (the latest Elvis Cole novel) on CD...plus, I have Glen Beck's book, The Real America. I bought 6 books for $1 each at the dollar general store in the past few days. I went once and got 2 books, then two other times I got one book each time...and, actually the other ones I got like last week- so maybe not all in the past few days. I have so many books I haven't read.

Alright, I'm off to listen to this some more.

Invader Zim on DVD

Great news- every episode of Invader Zim will be released on DVD. Saw this in the cooltoons newsletter- which is the newsletter from Klasky Csupo.

Two Faced Clark

Nice story on the two faces of Wesley Clark.

A second article on "alternative lifestyles."

Full Season for Arrested Development

Arrested Development- tho, it seems to have low ratings (don't ask me why, it's brilliant!) has been given a full season order.

Also- fans of the Disney series, Even Stevens can see an all day marathon tomorrow for Thanksgiving.

Plus, the British series, At Home with the Braithwaites, will be on all day tomorrow- all of season one, tho it doesn't list it at tvguide.com or any other website as far as I can tell.

I was hoping Showtime Women would air a Bob and Margaret marathon. They had a marathon last Thanksgiving, and thanks to that, I have a full tape of episodes...I'm missing a bunch of the episodes tho- I don't have any of them when they still live in the UK.

Michael Moore- Always the Liar

I don't know if I posted this one before, but here is a nice article on the many lies in Michael Moore's "documentary" Bowling for Columbine. I'd really love to see how Moore supporters, who seem to have been brain washed by the man, answer to all this evidence of their hero being a fanatical liar.

Polls Show Palestinans Barbarity

The Palestinians as a whole are a barbaric people if you ask me. The great majority of the public, if you are to believe polls like this and others that have been taken in more recent months show that these people do not, in general, have respect for the law, they support terrorism against innocent people in large numbers, and they refuse to live peacefully along side the Israelis, no matter what concessions Israel makes. Those few things together show the true colors of the Palestinian people...a people that think they deserve their own state with their own capital, refusing to accept the state of Israel no matter what. A people that constantly support terrorism and constantly carry it out against innocent men, women, and children.

The results of the poll I linked above are not at all surprising to me. It's an attitude that seems to prevail with the Palestinian people, and it seems to be getting even worse. Despite what many might have you believe, there can be no peace in the middle east with a "peace" partner that has no respect for life itself.

The Palestinian leadership (headed by an international terrorist) and the Palestinian people themselves have proven that they do not want peace...they have been given ample opportunity to live in peace, and Israel has been ready, numerous times, to make ridiculous concessions that they shouldn't be forced into making...yet, these people refuse to stop the terrorism- they refuse to accept peace, they refuse to accept the state of Israel.

The polls show the truth of the entire situation- even if they were given all they wanted, it wouldn't be enough- what they really want is a complete end to the Israeli people and the state of Israel itself. No peace plan can work with people that refuse peace at all costs.

The people in this region have said for years that they will only ALLOW Israel to live in peace if they are given ALL their demands (truth be told- their true demands are the total destruction of Israel)...and, until they succeed in the total destruction of Israel, there can be no peace. Now, you try to tell me you have faith in ANY peace plan offered to these people...then, I'll watch as the suicide bombings continue, and the situation only gets worse.

Creeeeepppppyyy

One word. Creeeeepppppy. Wait- 2 words. Very creeeeeeppppy.

1:51 AM: So...I was sitting here tonight, listening to christmas music (David Benoit on the piano to be exact), and I get a phone call. No idea who would be calling me...and when I got on the phone, hell if I could tell who it was by the voice. I thought it might have been someone I know and have talked to before...weird southern accent- well, not too weird, but whatever. So, the person never said who they are, and I soon asked who on earth they were, since I didn't know. Anyhow, the girl said her name was Cindy and her friend, in the car with her, was Beverly- who I talked to a couple times (I guess- the voice sure changed, heck if I know)...but, then she dropped the accent, and I surely didn't recognize the voice, and she said her real name was Ann (or maybe Anne?), and her friend was Britney...she finally said she was going to hang up (after insulting me for a while!) and she did just that. Before she went, she said she was going to give me her number...actually, her brother's number- she was going to visit him. She gave me some number, and I looked up the area code- it was from Texas...and I mentioned that, she said her brother lived in Texas, and that's where she would be. Anyhow, I put in the entire number right after she hung up. and it popped up a name and address- and it was the same name she gave me as her brother's name. So, I have no idea who it was...you can easily get all my information and call me up if you wanted to, so that's not too shocking that someone could do so. But, I still have no idea who it was...call me an idiot, but I swear I didn't recognize the voice, and I don't ever talk to anyone on the phone. I don't even remember the last time I got a phone call.

Maybe mystery person will call me back and I can figure out who it is, because I swear that drives me nuts not knowing what's going on...I surely ain't calling up this number and asking for Ann! No telling who will answer or what on earth they'll say when Ann turns out to be a fake name or something...soooo, I guess I'll just wait for another call to see who it was or whatever.

I'm off to watch FX2. Great movie. I noticed today that they have a collector's edition of SNEAKERS- another great movie with Robert Redford and Dan Ackroyd (I might have spelled that wrong?), and that DVD actually had a commentary track by the director and the making of snakers documentary on the disc. That's pretty cool- I need to get it.

The end.

Eyada

I was just thinking...I miss eyada. The best talk radio network ever. It folded about 2 years ago, I guess. To any of you who never listened or never heard of the network- it was an internet-only talk radio station that wasn't bound by any rules that normal stations have to follow. They could talk about anything, say anything they wanted, it was great. My favorite show was Dan and Scott- two crazy guys who did a little talk, a little prank phone calling, and a little phone sex...well, faux phone sex sorta. They did this thing called, 'This isn't phone sex, you dumbfuck' where they got one of their listeners (they usually used the same girl every week) who would call into the show and they would get listeners to post a NYC number throughout the net when the show aired- in chat rooms and such...trying to get lame idiots to call this fake girl up and have phone sex. The girl would answer calls from people who got the number, and then she would start to have phone sex with them- it got pretty nasty most of the time...Dan would break in on the line and pretend to be the girl's dad and start dialing...then, he'd realize she was on the phone and act like a weird dad, stuff like that. Then, at some point, they'd get on and tell the person that it wasn't phone sex, but that they were on a radio show making an ass of themselves. Most people hung up right away, but some of them stayed on the line and chatted about how they were duped into falling for the whole thing and why they called, etc. They always had a running total each day of the inches- they added up the size of the callers' penises...or, at least the size they claimed to be.

They also had other segments where Dan would just prank call people...he would call hardware stores and pretend to be a priest who wanted sex, so he tried to make love to a coke bottle and it got stuck in there, and he explained how it was bleeding and he needed help...but, that he was a priest and word of this couldn't get out- so he'd try to get people to come over (to a church he made up- since he called random people all over the country), and he'd tell the person that if they came over and helped him pull it out, he'd pay them or something. Or, he'd ask what sort of things he could use to get it unstuck...

There was the segment where Dan played the guy who heard online that you could have sex with a cow's heart, if you hooked it up to an electrical current to make it pulse. He'd call butcher shops and explain this to people, trying his best to find a whole cow's heart.

Then, there's the segment where he'd call old people and ask if they were getting enough vitamin c, so they wouldn't be in danger of getting scurvy.

Lots of different segments, and just general talk about current events, entertainment, etc.

They also had a sex show with Bob Berkowitz...and he actually had Tera Patrick as a guest one day (she called in from home, and she was sick with a cold)...he got some callers, and most of the callers were asking questions and trying to basically have phone sex with her. Anyhow, he had on a variety of guests and talked about sex and how to improve your sex life and stuff.

There were other shows- a psychology show hosted by some doctor, a sports show, a show all about wrestling, a gossip show, and more.

They went out of business, because they couldn't bring in enough ad revenue. I was sad to see it go away. The great thing was- it was all entirely free, and you could listen to any of the shows at anytime- they aired live, then they archived them, and you could listen to your favorite show whenever you wanted. Plus, the archived shows went back fairly far...you could listen to an entire month's worth of shows all day long. With a broadband connection- the audio was always great (they had both windows media and real player streams)...Hopefully, another online network will start up, and hopefully it'll be free too (they'll make their money from ads like eyada.)

Okay, I'm done with my fond memories of eyada now...

Jacoby on Marriage and Protecting It

DOWN THE SLIPPERY SLOPE
By Jeff Jacoby
The Boston Globe

Thursday, November 20, 2003

"Certainly our decision today marks a significant change in the definition of marriage as it has been inherited from the common law and understood by many societies for centuries," wrote Chief Justice Margaret Marshall in the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court opinion finding a constitutional right to same-sex marriage. "But it does not disturb the fundamental value of marriage in our society."

That is either the most dishonest assertion in Goodridge v. Department of Public Health or the most naive. Either way, it is false.

(click read more for rest of article)

*Of course* the most radical redefinition of marriage in centuries is going to have deeply disturbing consequences. It may be a decade or two before the full impact is evident, but some of the coming changes we can anticipate right now.

In the SJC's brave new world of gender-neutral marriage, the Commonwealth of Massachusetts will no longer communicate to its citizens that the central purpose of marriage is to bind men and women exclusively to each other and to the children that their sexual behavior is apt to produce. It will communicate instead that marriage was created to gratify grown-ups by reinforcing their committed romantic relationships. To be sure, a loving relationship is ideal in any marriage. But that isn't why every society in recorded history has defined marriage as an institution for linking the sexes.

Sooner than you think, it will become improper to speak of unique sex roles in family life. The meanings and status associated with words like "husband" and "wife" will be erased from the law; most likely, the words themselves will be replaced in statutes with the unisex "spouse," just as "father" and "mother" will give way to "parent." Two years ago, a private school in New York caused a stir when it banned celebrations of Mother's Day out of concern for the sensibilities of children being raised by gay parents. That was a tiny foretaste of what is now in store for Massachusetts -- and perhaps the rest of the country too, if the Constitution's Full Faith and Credit Clause means what many experts say it means.

The redefinition of marriage will not end with same-sex weddings. In explaining its decision, the court says: "Without the right to marry -- or more properly, the right to choose to marry -- one is excluded from the full range of human experience and denied full protection of the laws for one's avowed commitment to an intimate and lasting human relationship."

But if that is true for committed gay and lesbian unions, it is just as true for every other committed but nontraditional union. Why shouldn't a man and two women, deeply in love and yearning to live as one, be permitted to marry? Or two family members -- of the same sex or not -- whose romantic love for each other is deep and lasting? If the opposite-sex limitation must yield to "the right to choose to marry," by what rational argument can the only-two-spouses or no-close-relatives limitations be sustained?

The SJC soothingly tells us that the Goodridge "plaintiffs seek only to be married, not to undermine the institution of civil marriage. . . . They do not attack the binary nature of marriage, the consanguinity provisions, or any of the other gate-keeping provisions of the marriage licensing law." Maybe not. But it is only a matter of time until other plaintiffs who also "seek only to be married" *do* challenge those provisions. And there will be no easy way to refuse them. Not after Goodridge.

Do you doubt it? Supporters of same-sex marriage dismiss concerns about polygamy and incest as slippery-slope nonsense. But as Justice Robert Cordy points out in his forceful dissent, the same was said of those who warned 25 years ago that if an equal rights amendment were added to the state constitution, it would eventually be used to mandate homosexual marriage.

Cordy writes that in the Boston newspapers, "claims that the ERA might be the basis for validating marriages between same-sex couples were labelled 'exaggerated' and 'unfounded.' " On Nov. 1, 1976, the Boston Globe editorialized in favor of the amendment. "Those urging a no vote," it declared, "argue that the amendment would . . . legitimize marriage between people of the same sex . . . In reality, the proposed amendment would require none of these things."

The Globe offered similar assurances during the legislative battle over a gay-rights law. "The bill does not legalize 'gay marriage' or confer any right on homosexual, lesbian, or unmarried heterosexual couples to 'domestic benefits," insisted a Globe editorial in 1989. "Nor does it put Massachusetts on a 'slippery slope' toward such rights."

But the critics were right. The court's opinion in Goodridge relies in part on that very gay-rights law, while Justice John Greaney's concurring opinion -- which provided the fourth and decisive vote in the case -- begins by citing the Massachusetts ERA and argues that a ban on same-sex marriage is "self-evident" sex discrimination.

Goodridge "is a reminder not to pooh-pooh slippery slope arguments," says UCLA law professor Eugene Volokh, who supports same-sex marriage. "In a legal system built on analogy and precedent . . . the slippery slope can be a very real phenomenon -- which is to say that a proposed new legal rule may end up having indirect effects far beyond its own narrow scope."

Slippery slopes can be slippery indeed. If that was true of the ERA and gay-rights law, it is manifestly true of Goodridge. Four Massachusetts justices set off a cataclysm this week. We will be feeling the aftershocks for a long time to come.

(Jeff Jacoby is a columnist for The Boston Globe.)

More Terrorism in Turkey

There were 2 more terrorist bombings in Turkey...Another day, more Muslims murdering innocent people. It's becoming very clear that the mentality at the root of people of the Islamic faith is some of the most dangerous stuff on earth.

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There was a girl who was raped by her two brothers- she was actually impregnated by the rape...her mother was digusted at what had happened, and vowed to do something about it. Tho, the father tried to stop the mother, the woman got a plastic bag and two razor blades together and went into the bedroom one night.

She sat down on the end of the bed and said, "for what you have done, today you die." She then took out the plastic bag and placed it over her daughter's head. As her daughter screamed for mercy, her eyes locked on her mother in shock- the mother took out the two razor blades and sliced her daughter's wrists. She had tried to talk the girl into killing herself days before, but the daughter refused.

This thing happens all the time in Muslim countries...they're called mercy killings, and sometimes they take place in the public square. A woman shamed, by no fault of her own, is often murdered in Muslim countries- as one local shopkeeper said about the issue, "when a part of the body becomes tainted- the rest of the body starts to rot." The woman who was raped was a shame to her family. This is the mentality of Muslim societies. Try to tell me Islamic countries aren't the biggest threat to world peace, and I'll tell you a hundred more barbaric stories like this.

That was a story I heard on the Glen Beck show yesterday...I was shocked when he mentioned the mother was killing the daughter- and I was wondering what kind of sick people in the US would do such a thing...then, he mentioned that this is common in Muslim countries, and I honestly wasn't so shocked. It's sad, but it's true- many of these people are completely backwards in their morality- due to Islam- which basically sees women as nothing, and men are charged with spreading the religion to everyone on earth at any cost. Say what you will about Christianity- but, no one can claim that there is any sort of danger like this coming from the followers of Christ.

More Magazines

I just got my first issue of Latina magazine yesterday, and I just subscribed to Government Video magazine. Earlier today, I subscribed to two other video magazines- video production stuff, that is...and one other magazine yesterday. I seriously need to get some real magazine storage units, as opposed to the shelf unit I have now. Then, I could make a spot for each stack of issues from one particular magazine here, and the next magazine here, and so on...

I want an X BOX. The best system available graphics wise, as well as overall hardware- the processor kills the PS2's unit, and it has a much larger memory and room on the console itself for storing games/files, etc. I think it'd be cool to get the online gaming subscription as well...find some really cool games you like and play with others- I keep seeing the commercials with the driving games or the shooting games where the people all over the country are playing together, wearing the headsets...tho, I doubt the headsets work very well over the connection...no telling. Could be cool.

I was just thinking, I'm going to start an Aqua Teen Hungerforce site...I already have a few episodes on my computer, and I can get a bunch of screenshots from those episodes...plus, I can add my summaries and reviews to each episode I have seen (most of them), and add other cool content. Just thought I'd share...I'll post the link when I get the site up.

Protesting Jackals in London

Can someone please explain to me the thought process of protesters? These people drive me insane. NO ONE really listens to protesters, and in the year 2003, protesters really don't change anything. Well, I won't put all protesters into the same category...let's just talk about the dirty hippies walking around banging the drums, looking like they desperately need a bath. These anti-war protesters, who clearly know little about the real world are examples of the fools that are wasting their time. War is sometimes necessary, and these hippies wouldn't approve military action against Hitler, even if he were sitting in their backyard, ready to attack. They would probably invite him in for tea and chant some foolish statements about love and peace and happiness.

I'm rather confused as to why anti-war protesters would be gearing up in London...what are they chanting for now? Removing the military in Iraq and letting the madmen in hiding take over once again? I'd really really really like to hear their solution to world problems...you'll notice, they rarely have any answers- only that what the evil U.S. is doing is bad and won't work. Sure, it might help if they had their own ideas of how to fix the problems of the world- but that's not really that important is it? Nah...

I love how the mayor of London, clearly a man with 2 brain cells left in his tiny head, said that President Bush is the biggest threat to world peace. Funny he would put Bush, the leader of a free nation, up in that position. I guess he might not have heard of any number of madmen across the globe. Or maybe he's just another peace hippie with no clue as to how the world really works. Oh, by the way, how can these people march in protest to stop a war that has ended? Maybe they'll share their own ideas as to how we should take care of Iraq- I guess we'll just leave the people of that nation without a government, cut off all the services we have restored for them, and let them become prisoners to another evil regime. Great idea...

Arrested Development- Nov. 16, 2003

Another genius episode of Arrested Development on Fox. How on earth was Jason Bateman gone so long? He's a great actor, and he's really funny in this series.

The joke with George Jr. and Maeby continued this episode...this time, he found out she was trying out for the school play, so he tried out as well. He got the part of a stand in for the character who was to kiss Maeby's character...and they nearly kissed, but Maeby's dad (still not a real actor) took the role as director, and George (Bateman) came in with a new bike for George Jr.

I just think the whole cousins kissing joke is hilarious...that kid is just wonderful, playing the innocent kid who wants more than anything to kiss hiss cousin- very weird character, but also very funny.

David Cross is, as usual, a total freak in this show...he gets more freaky with each new episode. At one point, he thought George Jr. was in the play, because he was gay and wanted to kiss the male lead- stupid to the fact that he really wanted to kiss his daughter.

I noticed one thing from last week- they show a "scene" from the next episode, but in reality nothing in the preview from last week happened this week. They didn't start to rebuild the frozen banana stand, and Job never threw a rabbit he bought into the ocean after it died. Kind of neat idea to continue the story at the end of each episode, even if it really isn't from the next episode. Fills out small gaps in the narrative.

Indian Celebs

Nice site...if only for the pictures of gorgeous Indian actresses.

Funny Stuff on Hack

I couldn't use my computer yesterday forever, since my mouse wouldn't work! So, I had to go to wal mart this morning at 5am to get a new mouse. They still didn't have the trackman, so I had to get a logitech optical mouse. Better than nothing...tho, the cord is all short, so it's a bit annoying trying to use it where I usually do.

Anyhow...

Great quote from Olshansky last night on the episode of Hack. He was talking to Marcellus- giving him advice on how to solve some of his marital problems, and this is part of the conversation.

Marcellus: "It's hard to fix it when you don't know what IT is."
Olshanksy: "Thanks, President Clinton."

I just had to laugh at that jab at Clinton.

I love the shots of Philadelphia in that show...just the random shots in between scenes that act as transition pieces. Very nice, especially when they show the city all lit up at night, and then they fade to a scene during the day, and you hear the conversation or whatever from the next scene, overlapping the transitional shots of the skyline. Very cool. I think the fact that the entire series is shot in Philly is great...you really know this is Philly and not some city near Los Angeles 'posing' as Philly. That's something you rarely see in tv.

Hussein- Bin Laden Tie?

According to The Weekly Standard (which is a great magazine), there is detailed evidence of ties between Saddam and Usama- numerous ties that go back more than 10 years. According to Fox News, it is backed up by the FBI, CIA, and NSA (I didn't hear any statements from any of the 3 agencies, but it was said that all 3 backed the information up.)

If this turns out to be completely true, then I guess we can apologize to anyone who ever claimed 9/11 was related to Iraq in some way. I never claimed that myself, but who knows with this new intel.

I think they said the death toll from the bombings in Istanbul is 23 . Shocking to see Muslims killing Jews and Americans. Wait, I take that back- it's not at all shocking.

Speaking of Jews, what was so offensive about that banned from Fox episode of Family Guy? They aired it on Cartoon Network, and I taped it...but, I didn't think anyone would find it all offensive or anything. Who can't help but laugh when fat, lovable Peter is singing for someone to "send" him a "jew" to help him with his financial problems, and going to Vegas to help his son become a jew- so he'll grow up smart and be good with money? I don't know any jews myself, tho I did know a girl who went to school with jewish girls who were way hot...but that's a totally different story.

I watched the middle and end of some movie called Double Whammy with Denis Leary. Pretty good, what I saw of it. The guy from Clueless, the series- and he's also in Scrubs (I think?) was in it, and he's funny...especially when he's working on a screenplay with his buddy (who happens to be wearing the same red suit he's wearing), and he screams out the window- "I see you, you spics!" It just so happens, to hispanic guys were about to murder the landlord of this building (the landlord has a hot daughter if you ask me!), and they thought he was screaming at them...but he was really screaming what he thought the cop would scream in the movie they were writing. Did I mention the landlord's hot daughter? Tho, she did look sorta weird at times...

Hack comes on tonight...I think it's a new episode. They haven't ran a repeat yet. That's always good. I don't know if Hack got the back 9 yet or not. They got the regular 13 order, but I haven't seen any new episode names anywhere online. Then again, I haven't heard that it was cancelled, so that's a good sign too, because if CBS is picking up the back 9, they would have done it by now...watch it. I command you.

I so need to get some videotapes tomorrow, so I can tape the Showtime series, Chris Cross- from the mid 90's...maybe it was early 90's, I forget. Anyhow, that is a show you will never see on tape, and no one has it on tape...it airs every weekday at 2 PM CT on Showtime Family Zone, so...watch that too. Or get the tapes from me.

Alright, I'm off to read more of Barbara Olson's book on the corrupt Clintons.

It's Only a Word!

I usually support this organization, and I have written a number of letters to my Congressman on various issues, and sent E-Mails to different officials thru their site for these guys, but I cannot support them on this issue. They're being prudes with this one (if you ask me), because the network censors won't allow the F word to be used...this all stems from an awards show where Bono said "fuck," and the FCC had to make a ruling on the issue, due to so many complaints and questions. This is a pointless battle, since no kid will ever be harmed by a word- especially a four letter word that has no racial or ethnic connotation to it. If we hear "fuck" on tv or radio- no one's going to die, no one is going to turn mental, no one if going to be scarred for life. And I surely wouldn't call the F word "verbal pornography." Not to mention- censorship is always a bad idea if you ask me-because you infringe on the freedoms of adults to supposedly "protect" the children...tho there is no real protection from words. I am against censorship in most forms, because- as I said, when you censor something to protect kids, you are censoring from consenting adults who shouldn't have to be "protected" from 4 letter words. This is the parents' jobs to keep kids away from programs where foul language is used, not the government. This is ironic coming from a conservative organization, which should be working for limited government.

You'll notice they mention songs on the radio, tv shows, news, etc. Remember, each network has censors that make decisions based on their own standards- not FCC rules. This ruling does NOT mean you'll hear this on the radio, that's highly unlikely- plus, should your kids be listening to howard stern or any other "shock jocks?" There is no way this will be heard on the news, that's ludicrous. And, the networks won't be allowing this language either...especially on shows that are targeted to kids. Third- the FCC rules on language only apply to network TV anyhow- a mere 4 channels (abc, nbc, cbs, fox), and they might apply to WB and UPN as well. Most of us have cable, and cable isn't bound by FCC rules on language and content...the movies on cable are edited due to each network's own rules- written by their own standards and practices departments.

So, their panic over this issue is fairly unfounded, being that FCC rules cover so little of what's actually on tv, and kids shouldn't be watching shows that would ever use this language to begin with. So, I suggest the AFA not be uptight on this issue, and for people who support them to NOT support them with this issue. When censorship starts anywhere, it's bound to keep going and cover more and more speech that should be protected. The F word isn't going to lead our country into the gutter anymore than it already is...remember, the airwaves that tv and radio are broadcast on belong to the American people...

I Hear Naked People

First off, my mouse stopped working, so I had to get my trackball out...even tho the left button on that one is messed up. I went to two wal marts, and only one had trackballs- one model only, but they were all out of it. Annoying.

Anyhow, check this out. Playboy Radio on XM Satellite Radio (which I want- the XM Radio, not Playboy Radio.) I'm wondering who wants to listen to Playboy RADIO. Key word there...radio, as in- you can't see anything...which, to me, defeats the purpose. It's only $2.99 a month, but I'm not sure why you'd want to HEAR naked people. Then again, most displays that the driver can see are illegal, and porno is illegal in many states, even if it's being played in the back where no one in the front can see it. I wouldn't mind have a dash display with a DVD player and all of that.

More Terrorist Attacks

More terrorist attacks-this time in Istanbul, Turkey...no surprise, as you will see- they were carried out by islamic terrorists. Think of what the world would be like without maniacs carrying out their evil acts in the name of allah- the imaginary god.

Gobstoppers, White Video Tapes, and More

I opened all the packs of gobstoppers I had, and put them in a container...there are over 200 in this container.

Also, I was at the dollar general store the other day, and I bought a pack of 2 videotapes, like I always do...when I got home and opened the package up, I was suprised to see white tapes. Totally weird...you don't see a lot of white videotapes, but I think they're cool.

We went to the store yesterday, and I got some of that Nescafe french vanilla ice java stuff. It's pretty good...you just mix it with milk, or you can blend it with milk and ice. The deli at this store (Buy Low) has these chicken strips with bbq sauce on them...they're great. I always get them and eat them in the store. Call me a pig. It's a chain of stores, and sometimes they're sorta hard and chewy, but the store we went to last night had them all moist and umm whatever you wanna call chicken that's good. Not tough or anything, not chewy.

The Senate is still debating...most of these guys cannot stop playing partisan politics, and it's getting annoying. They can't keep their facts straight either, it seems.

Senate Debate-'athon'

The Senate debate is going on 37 hours as of 5 AM CT/ Nov. 14, 2003.

I haven't been watching much of the news about this, but I think it's mainly due to the blocking of judicial nominees. What I don't get is why, if that's the reason for the prolonged debate- why are they talking about upping the minimum wage and stuff like that. I was watching Teddy Kennedy (who is insane!) screaming about minimum wage.

Anyhow, it's interesting to watch CSPAN 2 every now and then and see what they're talking about. I was watching Headline News, and they discussed how in the 60's, there was a debate that lasted 57 working days...whatever that means. If they had breaks and such, how can that be considered 57 days? I don't have a clue.

I'm watching Rick Santorum now, and he's a good speaker. Not really sure exactly how Congress works- with objections, yielding time, a parlimentary 'something,' all of the terms they use. Not really positive what half of it means, since I'm not familiar with the terms, but it's entertaining sometimes...especially when the democrat stands up, when they're talking about judicial nominees, and he suddenly brings up unemployment. Someone just stood up and said that 3 million jobs were lost under Bush- which is tricky, since the president really has very little to do with the economy and jobs. From what I have heard, the Bush taxcuts help- but overall, how can a president control the internet boom in the mid to late 90's...or the terrorist attacks, or Iraq, etc. Most of those economic factors are completely out of the President's control, so it's really rather pointless to blame a president for jobs or the economy in general.

Anyhow, it's all fairly odd in Congress.

UPDATE (6:01 AM): Look! I'm a democrat. "This is a made for tv fillibuster, this is phony. This is all made for tv. This is a made for tv fillibuster. This is a made for fox news debate, fox news and the right wing. This is a made for tv fillibuster."

If I hear him say "made for tv" or claiming that "fox news- right wing" nonsense, I'm gonna scream!!

It's almost as annoying as Gephardt and-

"miserable failure, miserable failure, miserable failure, miserable failure, miserable failure, miserable failure, miserable failure, miserable failure, miserable failure, miserable failure, miserable failure, miserable failure."

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IN REAGAN'S FOOTSTEPS
By Jeff Jacoby
The Boston Globe

Thursday, November 13, 2003

The 43d president of the United States is the son of the 41st, and no one doubts that he loves and respects his father. But it grows increasingly clear that the president who has most influenced George W. Bush's world view is not No. 41 but No. 40 -- his father's predecessor, Ronald Reagan.

In an important address at the National Endowment for Democracy last week, Bush explicitly linked his goal of bringing democracy and freedom to the Middle East to the Reagan strategy that won the Cold War. That strategy was premised on the superiority and ultimate triumph of liberty over dictatorship. It was a conviction that Reagan voiced often -- most memorably in his speech to the British House of Commons on June 8, 1982.

"It is time that we committed ourselves as a nation to assisting democratic development," Reagan said that day. "What I am describing now is a plan and a hope for the long term -- the march of freedom and democracy which will leave Marxism-Leninism on the ash-heap of history as it has left other tyrannies which stifle the freedom and muzzle the self-expression of the people."

As Bush recalled last week, critics dismissed Reagan's words. "Some observers on both sides of the Atlantic pronounced the speech simplistic and naive and even dangerous. In fact, Ronald Reagan's words were courageous and optimistic and entirely correct." Now, Bush said, America is at "another great turning point" in the march of liberty: It is embarking upon the spread of democracy and decent governance to the Arab world, beginning with the reconstruction of Iraq. "This is a massive and difficult undertaking," he acknowledged, but "it is worth our effort, it is worth our sacrifice, because we know the stakes. . . . Iraqi democracy will succeed -- and that success will send forth the news, from Damascus to Teheran, that freedom can be the future of every nation."

The wisdom of Reagan's freedom strategy is obvious in retrospect. But it wasn't obvious during the 1980s, when Reagan's foes condemned his strategy and worked tirelessly to defeat it.

There was a timely reminder of that era in the days leading up to Bush's speech. On Nov. 3 and 4, Secretary of State Colin Powell visited Nicaragua, a country on the front lines of the Cold War when Powell served as Reagan's national security adviser. As he stepped off the plane in Managua, he was greeted by a Nicaraguan honor guard and a military band playing the American national anthem. It was a deeply moving moment -- one that called to Powell's mind the fierce struggle two decades ago to support the Nicaraguan freedom fighters, who had taken up arms against the country's pro-Soviet Sandinista dictatorship.

"To stand there at attention . . . hearing the Star Spangled Banner," said Powell, triggered a flashback to 1987, "when I was . . . going up to Capitol Hill every three months . . . and fighting all night long with opponents of Contra aid, to keep these guys alive and going with food and ammunition." Reagan had called the Contras "the moral equivalent of our founding fathers and the brave men and women of the French resistance" in World War II -- analogies that infuriated liberal Democrats, many of whom worked openly with the Sandinistas to undermine Reagan's policy.

But Reagan's comparisons were apt. After seizing power in 1979, the Sandinistas had quickly moved to take over Nicaragua's radio and TV stations, and to impose strict censorship on La Prensa, the leading newspaper. It arrested and tortured independent labor leaders. It vilified the Catholic church, persecuted the small Jewish community, and treated evangelical Protestants with particular viciousness. It expelled thousands of Miskito Indians from their homes, forcibly relocating them to government camps. With Cuban and Soviet aid, it launched a massive military buildup.

Like all communists, the Sandinistas were ruthless toward dissenters; by 1983, their prisons held more political prisoners than those of any Western Hemisphere nation except Cuba. The Sandinistas also produced what every communist regime produces: a flood of refugees. It was estimated in 1986 that one-10th of Nicaragua's population had fled from Sandinista repression.

Reagan's explicit support for the Contras was bitterly opposed by the left. Then-Congressman Charles Schumer of New York snorted that Reagan offered "the same exact arguments that we were hearing in the mid-60s about Vietnam"; Senator Christopher Dodd of Connecticut warned that Americans would be fighting "the tide of history" if it backed the Contras -- "we will . . . find ourselves once again on the losing side."

But in the end, it was the Sandinistas and their totalitarian dreams that went down to defeat. When the junta finally agreed, under pressure from the Contras and from Washington, to hold elections in 1990, American liberals were sure the Reagan Doctrine would be discredited once and for all. Instead, the candidate of the democratic opposition, Violeta Chamorro, won in a landslide -- and another outpost of the Evil Empire gave way to freedom.

The following year, Chamorro was honored by the National Endowment for Democracy, which believed then as it does now that self-government is a universal human aspiration -- and that the world's greatest democracy has a role to play in the nurturing of democratic institutions. Reagan's vision lives on in the endowment's work, and Bush couldn't have chosen a better venue to lay out his own vision for freedom in the Middle East -- or to acknowledge his debt to the president in whose footsteps he is clearly proud to follow.

(Jeff Jacoby is a columnist for The Boston Globe.)

A Sad Day for Freedom in America

It's a sad day for freedon in the United States. Our forefathers would be turning over in their graves...

This is a news alert I just got in my e mail.

Ethics panel orders Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore removed from office for
refusing to move Ten Commandments monument.

The imaginary separation of church and state- which doesn't, and never has existed, an idea born from the secular ACLU and groups like it- today, as Americans, we all lost a bit of our freedom.

Moore never broke a single law, he never violated the Constitution, and honest people know that. Once again, the courts, have overridden the freedom of the citizens...and they have broken away from the majority who support Justice Moore. If this trend continues, we are doomed as a nation.

Hopefully, the US Supreme Court will stop ignoring their duty, and they will hear these cases. They have so far refused to hear these Ten Commandment cases, clearly not following their duties according to the Constitution. It's time we demand the US Supreme Court rule on these matters, and allow Americans the freedoms we are guaranteed by our founding fathers. If not, it's time that we, as citizens, demand impeachment procedings for those Justices who refuse to hear these cases.

Like I said...this is a sad day for all of us. This is how it starts, but this is surely not where it end...think Nazi Germany.

President Bush on Veteran's Day

A Veterans Day Proclamation by the
President of the United States of America

The willingness of America's veterans to sacrifice for our country has earned them our lasting gratitude. On this, our Nation's 50th annual Veterans Day observance, we celebrate and honor the patriots who have fought to protect the democratic ideals that are the foundation of our country.

When the armistice ending World War I was signed on November 11, 1918, more than 4.7 million Americans put down their arms and turned to the work of strengthening our Nation. The end of that first global conflict was initially commemorated as Armistice Day. In 1954, the Congress renamed the day as Veterans Day to recognize all those who have served in our Armed Forces.

Throughout our history, loyal citizens from every corner of America have willingly assumed the duty of military life. And time after time, in conflicts across the globe, they have proven that democracy is mightier than tyranny. From World War I and World War II, to the conflicts in Korea, Vietnam, and the Persian Gulf, to the recent battles in the war on terror, our military has built a great tradition of courageous and faithful service. Our veterans
have helped bring freedom to countries around the world. Free nations and peoples liberated by American troops are grateful for the long, distinguished line of American veterans who have come to their aid.

Today, our veterans inspire new generations of Americans as we work to defeat terrorism and advance peace. In respect for and recognition of the contributions our service men
and women have made to the cause of peace and freedom around the world, the Congress has provided (5 U.S.C. 6103(a)) that November 11 of each year shall be set aside as a legal public holiday to honor veterans.

NOW, THEREFORE, I, GEORGE W. BUSH, President of the United States of America, do hereby proclaim November 11, 2003, as Veterans Day and urge all Americans to observe November 9 through November 15, 2003, as National Veterans Awareness Week. I encourage all Americans to recognize the valor and sacrifice of our veterans through
appropriate ceremonies and prayers. I call upon Federal, State, and local officials to display the flag of the United States and to participate in patriotic activities in their communities. I invite civic and fraternal organizations, places of worship, schools, businesses, unions, and the media to support this national observance with suitable commemorative expressions and programs.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this tenth day of November, in the year of our Lord two thousand three, and of the Independence of the United States of America the two hundred and twenty-eighth.

GEORGE W. BUSH

Punch Drunk Love

I just finished watching Punch Drunk Love on DVD. It's an odd movie...Adam Sandler's character is just plain insane, tho you can't help but like him...very very odd to have that feeling for a charaacter.

I liked it, I guess...didn't love it, and it's no masterpiece- and it's way overrated, since people were talking about it like it was worthy of all these oscars and it's genius and stuff. It's just a movie...the director- the guy who wrote and directed the over-long, totally annoying Magnolia (a movie I saw at the theatre, and left wanting to kill myself!) does some weird stuff with the camera, and there are shots that drag on way too long. I think the 'artsy' aspect to it is why so many people praised it as such a brilliant film. Anyhow, like I said- I enjoyed it. I'll write a review later on and add it to the movies page.

Sitting Around

I slept an hour or so a bit ago, but I got up. I wasn't going to. My stomach was hurting, so I got up and peed (nice visual, I know)...and I came back in here to lie down and sleep again, and I was on my way to doing so, but I suddenly picked up the remote and hit the cable power button and the tv power button, seeing what I had left it on- Cartoon Network when Brak Show was on...so, I turned it to Nicktoons TV, and Rugrats was on (tho it said something else was supposed to be on.) I went to 4AM on the guide to see if Pelswick came on...maybe it's a new episode I don't have on tape, and I'll tape it. Or maybe two new episodes, since it was two in a row. So, I got up and finished reading Ann Coulter's High Crimes and Misdemeanors- a very telling book about the corruption that was rampant in the Clinton White House, not to mention during his time in Arkansas.

I read the end of that and put it on my stack of things to return to the library tomorrow morning. I have a meeting at 9:30, so I probably won't be going back to sleep, since it's 4:51 now.

I really want to go to Village Fireside Pizza- a restaurant in Boonville that is open 24 hours a day now (or so the sign says), and they have breakfast and stuff. It would be a 45 minute drive or so, and I'd need some money to do that...money I don't have right now.

Anyhow, I just left for a second to take the doggy out...the psycho one who growls if you get near his area or certain people.

A few things I need to look into:

1) hypnotherapy
2) self esteem therapy
3) reality testing
4) interpersonal-skills training
5) focusing skills
6) public speaking courses
7) perception/assertion training
8) relaxation techniques

I'd also like to look into those weekend 'camps' where you can go with tons of others who have the same or similar anxieties, and they have courses during the day, group therapy, different stuff...I'm actually not sure what all they do or how it all works, but many people have talked about going thru it online, and it sounds like it might be beneficial. Who knows...anything that works would be a godsend.

Donna, who runs my group therapy meeting, called me yesterday with the numbers of two local hypnotherapists, and I need to call them to get some information, see how much it costs, and all of that stuff. Last Thursday was this month's anxiety group with Donna, and I was the only one that showed up. The most that has ever been is like 3 people and Donna...so, 4 people. But, we were there all alone, talking for an hour about me and my current situation. It was actually nice.

A few things I have going for me, as Donna mentioned, and I noticed myself:

1) I always look people in their eyes when I talk to them, and I don't have much of an issue with that.
2) I'm very personable (have been told that by a number of people throughout my life, and even lately people have said this.)
3) No one can tell that I'm nervous, I always hide it very well...it doesn't feel like I hide it to me, but everyone has always told me I don't seem nervous at all, that I seem fine. Many people have actually asked if I was lying about anxiety, because they have said I don't seem very shy at all, and if I was shy- it surely doesn't rise to the level of social anxiety. Well, I have it, but, as I said, I hide it well.

Those are some positive things. Well, people usually tell me I have a good sense of humor and that I seem very intelligent as well, so those are definitely pluses. I've just got to work on the things listed above. Well, the things listed above sorta tell some of the things I need to work on.

Tonight's 10-8 and Arrested Development

Two more great episodes of tv tonight- 10-8 on ABC and Arrested Development on FOX (it's a shame this show is only a half hour long.) On 10-8, Barnes has a dizzy spell (a head rush, I think he called it) after running to catch a criminal they were chasing. He gets put on a desk job until the tests come back, to make sure he's in good shape physically. Rico gets a new T.O. (training officer) who just so happens to be the new arrival at the station, a semi-verteran from Hollywood...and the same woman he was hitting on in the gym.

He has to ride in a car with her...getting to know her a little more each day. He, of course, starts liking her a lot, and they kiss- which could cause problems, or even worse- cost them their jobs.

Christina Vidal was, as always, an angel...and the guy who plays her partner is pretty funny. Danny Nucci, who plays Rico, is just amazingly charismatic- I won't even attempt to deny that much, all of them together- the characters- they're what make this show really great. That's something that's unusal in my eyes for a cop show...most of these shows aren't riding on the back's of the characters like 10-8. I like that this show does that. I like it a lot.

On Arrested Development- like last week, the funniest scenes are between the oh-so-cute Alia Shawkat, who plays Maeby and her cousin, George Michael Jr. (I laugh everytime I hear someone say his name.) The actor who plays George Jr. (son of Jason Bateman's character) is great- he plays the lines so well. He's constantly having to worry about his hot cousin who kissed him, and now she's living in the same room, and they show a scene where she has to get on his lap in the car to make room- he's always got this look in his eyes- like a deer in a car's headlights. Scared to death that his father is going to push his cousin on him more than he already does.

Maeby starts to work with George at the frozen banana stand...but, she's lazy, so that leads to her taking money from the cash register. George is so scared his dad will catch him screwing up, that he tells her that the bananas have to match the cash at the end of the week...so, what does she do to get money to play skeeball? She throws a banana away for each dollar she takes- later figuring out that they buy the banana then sell it- so they're actually losing 2 bucks for each banana thrown away. This all leads to George Bluth Sr (Bateman's father- played by Jeffrey Tambor) to take control (from prison!) of the stand, sending a just-released 'T-Bone' (a huge black guy he met in prison, and he kept telling his son that T-Bone was a "flamer") to work with the kids at the stand.

Maeby tells T-Bone how they throw a banana away for each dollar they take, and he tries to tell her they need to rethink their math. Maeby tells George Jr.- 'it's okay, he's an arsonist, not an embezzeler.'

David Cross plays the husband of Bateman's sister- who is played by (the oh-so-fine) Portia de Rossi. I forget what was said last week- but he used to be a doctor I think? Now, he has decided to become an actor, walking around the boardwalk, he picks up a magazine called "actor pull" and finds a section listing "parts." We see the FULL cover of the magazine, and it reads "tractor pull." He spends most of the episode in the shower, crying loudly about losing the commercial gig he auditioned for-- to his wife. Cross is usually very funny, and he's definitely funny here- tho he's not given tons to work with. His overdoing it in the audition wasn't very funny, but it worked well enough.

Nice episode overall, and next week- the older brother, whom I have never even mentioned, named Job is angry that the pet store won't refund him for his dead (and now frozen) dove he bought to use in his magic tricks (he's a magician.)

Confused yet? So am I. Watch the show, and you won't be. It airs on Fox at 8:30 CT. Sunday nights.

Irrationality

I found this entry on this ridiculous group called anti-righty (by very definition, a group that clearly refuses to see any situation from the 'right/')

As you can see for yourself, this person claimed that President Bush lied to the entire world...and that he "killed thousands for oil." Pretty strong words without anything to back it up...he, of course, never came up with any evidence that Bush killed thousands for oil, let alone any evidence to even imply Bush got anywhere near doing such a thing.

I asked him if he hated Bush because of his alternative lifestyle. Look at his picture, it's all too clear that he's homosexual (which he basically confirmed in the comments section)...so I assume that might lend to his hatred of Bush and calling him a murderer without cause.

In response to that, he- like many other homosexuals, purposely distored the meaning of the word "homophobe," and said I was just that because I brought the subject up. He is well aware that a phobia is an irrational fear...and never once did I say anything about fear of homosexuals...just questioning his motives and his clear hate for the President.

I guess I'm too surprised from a community called 'anti-righty.'

I wrote another entry about this group where some girl posted that she hated when people weren't open minded...a comment I found hilarious in a group dedicated to refusing to hear the view from 'the right.' I think I must have deleted it tho.

Very Scary Spam

This is spam I got a bit ago...I took out the website name, because I think someone NOT associated with the site sent it out.

It's rather funny either way...since, this would be the world's scariest website if it were true!
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Here is a list:
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4. New shipment of cocaine has arrived, buy 9 grams and get 10th for free.
5. We also offer gay-slaves for sale, we offer only suc h service on the NET, you can choose the one you like, then get straight to business.
6. Fake currencies, such as Euros and US dollars, prices would match competition.
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Everyone is welcome, be it in States or any other place worldwide.

ATTENTION. Clearance offer. Buy 30 grams of heroin, get 5 free. Prepay your batch of rockets (air-to-air) and receive a portable rocket-launcher for free.

Magazine

I have mentioned before that I collect magazines...I never throw old issues away. I have a big shelf thing in the smaller of my two rooms here, and I keep most of them there. Most of them I still get, but some I only have a few issues of.

Here is a listing of 49 of the magazines I get in the mail.
I'm working on a page with links to each magazine's website.

Magazines
Plane and Pilot Magazine
Video Store News
FHM
Wine Enthusiast
Charisma
Smart TV & Sound
Electronic Publishing
PC Photo Magazine
Promo
Stuff
Maxim
Videography
Digital Video
Baseline
Creativity
Film and Video
Audio Video Interiors
Gear
Car and Driver
Interview
Biography
Electronic House
Western Interiors
This Old House
The Week
Foreign Policy Magazine
Computer Shopper
Cinescape
Wall Street Journal
Los Angeles Magazine
New York Magazine
Unlimited
Saveur
National Geographic Adventure
Outside
O.Y.E.
Pleasure Scene
Electronic Publishing
On Magazine
One World
Wine Spectator
PC World
Mac Addict
Popular Photography
Travel America
TV Guide
Cable Guide
Details
Computer Videomaker

Jacoby on Iraq

'BOTCHED' OCCUPATION?
By Jeff Jacoby
The Boston Globe

November 6, 2003

"Everywhere I've traveled recently in Germany I've run into Americans, ranging from generals down to privates, who ask perplexedly, 'What are we Americans supposed to be doing here? Are we going to take over this place and stay here forever?' "

So opened journalist Demaree Bess's article -- "How We Botched The German Occupation" -- in the Saturday Evening Post of Jan. 26, 1946. It appeared eight months after V-E Day, and Bess was sure that the Allies' military victory over Hitler was being squandered in the postwar.

"We have got into this German job without understanding what we were tackling or why," he wrote. "Not one American political leader fully realized at the outset how formidable our German commitments would prove to be. There was no idea, at the beginning, that Americans would become involved in a project to take Germany completely apart and put it together again in wholly new patterns."

In Life magazine a couple weeks earlier, the novelist John Dos Passos had penned an even bleaker assessment. The postwar administration set up by the Americans was "a tangle of snarling misery" he observed. "Never has American prestige in Europe been lower. . . . All we have brought to Europe so far is confusion backed up by a drumhead regime of military courts. We have swept away Hitlerism, but a great many Europeans feel that the cure has been worse than the disease." The title of his piece: "Americans are Losing the Victory in Europe."

Today, of course, few would argue that the United States "botched" the occupation of West Germany or that the US-secured liberty that replaced Hitler's tyranny was a "cure . . . worse than the disease." Looking back from the early 21st century, it is clear that the transformation of the shattered Nazi Reich into a bulwark of democracy was one of the signal achievements of 20th-century statecraft. But on the ground in 1946, that happy outcome was nowhere in view. What *was* in view was an occupation beset by troubles -- chaotic, dangerous, and frequently vicious.

Just like the one in Iraq today.

There is no denying that the news out of Iraq has been brutal lately. US soldiers die in roadside bombings and in brazen attacks like the helicopter downing that killed 16 on Sunday. Terrorists target civilian venues -- Red Cross offices, Muslim shrines, embassies -- for the bloodiest possible carnage. Iraqis are grateful to be free of Saddam Hussein, but many nonetheless inveigh against the American occupiers who toppled him. At the moment, Iraq seems a long, long way from anything resembling the stable and tolerant democracy President Bush says he is determined to see it become.

Not surprisingly, public support for the war is eroding. Only 54 percent of Americans -- down from 70 percent in late April -- still say it was worth fighting, according to the most recent ABC/Washington Post poll. Just 47 percent of the public approves of President Bush's handling of Iraq; a thin majority, 51 percent, actually disapproves. Quagmire fears are deepening: 53 percent are "very" concerned that the United States will get bogged down. A few more horrific attacks, another bloody couple of months in Baghdad and Fallujah, and it isn't hard to imagine even more Americans giving up on Iraq and deciding we should never have gone in to begin with.

Which is exactly what Saddam and his murderer-loyalists and the terror cadres that have joined them are counting on. They expect us to walk away. They are certain that we will do again what we did in Beirut and Mogadishu: lose heart, pull out, and leave the Middle East to them.

Will we?

Make no mistake. We are now in the battle that will decide the course of this war. Either Iraq will be cleansed and democratized, or the war on terror will be lost. There is no middle ground. The Baathist diehards and Islamist car-bombers understand that everything is on the line. They know that if America succeeds in planting freedom and decency in the Arab world, they are finished. That is why they are determined at all costs to drive us out.

To his great credit, Bush has never wavered in his resolve to stay in Iraq until it is governed by a stable constitutional democracy. "The terrorists and the Baathists hope to weaken our will," he said on Nov. 1. "Our will canot be shaken." He and his administration have learned the core lesson of Sept. 11: The terrorist threat to civilization will never be rolled back until the Middle East is torn away from its nightmare of tyranny, cruelty, and religious fanaticism.

If only the Democrats running to replace Bush understood that lesson as well. Except for Senator Joseph Lieberman, none of them seems to grasp the magnitude of the stakes in Iraq. When they spoke of Iraq during their televised debate at Faneuil Hall Tuesday night, for example, all they appeared to care about was genuflecting to the UN and denouncing "sweetheart deals for Halliburton."

On what is by far the most consequential issue of the day, the Democrats repeatedly come across as petty and unserious. The proper goal of the US occupation, the link between Iraq and American national security, the US role in reshaping the Middle East -- if the candidates have thought meaningfully about any of these, it is impossible to tell. Incredibly, the first post-9/11 presidential campaign is being contested by a Democratic lineup that has apparently learned nothing from 9/11.

Like the occupation of Germany in January 1946, America's work in Iraq is only getting underway. A huge amount of effort -- and danger -- still lies ahead. What Americans need now are leaders who can focus on the great work before them -- not sideline snipers carping prematurely that the occupation has been "botched."

(Jeff Jacoby is a columnist for The Boston Globe.)

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Babs cracks me up...she is so out of touch, it's scary.

Streisand Lashes Out at 'Reagans' Cancellation

Barbra Streisand has slammed the decision to axe her actor husband James Brolin's new TV movie about Ronald Reagan - calling it "a sad day for artistic freedom". Streisand, a Democratic activist, was horrified when she learned TV bosses at CBS had bowed to pressure from right wingers and cancelled The Reagans, which was due to air later this month featuring Brolin as the former president of America. Posting a fiery note on her website yesterday, Streisand lashed out, "(Artistic freedom is) one of the most important elements of an open and democratic society." Streisand is being backed by actress Meryl Streep, who says, "Any time that something is banned it makes you uncomfortable as an American."

MC Pee Pants

There is a characyer named MC Pee Pants from Aqua Teen Hungerforce...he's in two different episodes. Very hard to explain his character and what on earth he's doing, since the show itself makes little sense half the time. Anyhow, Pee Pants is a rapper with subliminal messages in his music (see the lyrics below), and Meatwad won't stop listening to the the I Want Candy song over and over...so, he goes down to this warehouse, and it turns out that MC Pee Pants is a big spider...he turns out to be semi-evil, needing the brain power of saps like Meatwad to power his drill that is drilling into hell to release demons. So, Frylock and Meatwad pretend to get MC Pee Pants a job, and when he goes into the building, it blows up. He comes back in another episode as a big cow with a diaper and sings a song about bringing doo doo and poo poo down to the warehouse in an attempt to feed himself. Very weird, but very funny...

I Want Candy

I want candy, bubblegum and taffy
skip to the sweet shop with my sweetheart Sandy
got my penny saved, so I'm her sugar Daddy
I'm her Hume Cronyn, she's my Jessica Tandy
I want candy

Mess up the mix, mix up the mess
come on down, yo, heres the address
it's 6-1-2 Wharf Avenue, hey
6-1-2 Wharf Avenue

Gonna get your ass beat, nasty
do it to your daddy
embarrass your whole family
just cuz ya came between a kid and his candy
i want candy
any kind will do
don't care if its nutritious or FDA Approved
its gonna make me spaz like 5 cats on booze
a hyperactive juice that only I can produce
and build a giant drill, and bore it straight into hell
releasing ancient demons from their sleep-forever spell
so they can walk up on the Earth, and get resituated
and hawk the diet pills MC Pee Pants have created

You can find the entire transcript to this episode and others here.

Adopt and Abuse

This story makes you sick.

A few points.

1. How on earth did no one notice that the teens all weighed less than 50 POUNDS each? Wouldn't it enter someone's mind that- wow, maybe there's something going on here?

2. Did caseworkers not realize this?! Do they even check up on the children that are thrown into foster care with maniacs like this?

3. Why didn't the other kids, who watched their foster siblings being abused, say or do anything? In the picture, it's clear that they're in their late teens, some of them, so why couldn't they have said something?

4. How do any families get so many foster kids in one home?

Let's just keep throwing more and more money at the problem, yet never solving the problem...it's never worked, and it never will, but so many think that throwing money at an issue and walking away will fix it. If I were the governor of NJ, it would be time to start a complete overhaul of service agencies in that state, and it would be time for some big prosecutions of welfare workers.

Stupid Lawsuits

I couldn't help but laugh when I read this story on imdb.com

Arrested Development Sue Fox

Hip-hop group Arrested Development are suing over the use of their name as the title of the new Fox TV series Arrested Development. The band have filed a trademark infringement suit against Fox, Imagine Films Entertainment Inc. and New World Communications Of Atlanta Inc. They allege that Fox's usage of the phrase will "dilute the meaning" of their name with fans. Frontman Todd Thomas says in a statement, "Fox has no more right to use 'Arrested Development' for its show than a band would have to name itself after one of Fox's sitcoms." The series airs this Sunday and stars Ally McBeal actress Portia De Rossi, Jeffrey Tambor and Jason Bateman.

This show clearly is not trying to gain profit by associating themselves with a hip-hop group. I'm not expert in copyright law, but common sense tells us that there are only SO MANY names out there, and sometimes names are used more than once for different things. A tv show shouldn't be limited in its name because of a band name! If the tv show was called Aerosmith, they might have a point, but 'arrested development' is a phrase first and foremost- not a band name.

What's even funnier is- I've heard of this group, but I couldn't even begin to tell you what it is, who is in it, how many people are in it...nor could I get close to naming one song they have or if they've even had any songs in the last decade. I'm thinking they're some shitty group that is desperate for some press, and they're using this lowball tactic to get some...

John Kerry's Shaky Relationship with the Truth

Seems like John Kerry is taking after Howard Dean...he's not sure how to be honest. In the last debate. he claimed that he read a poll that has him ahead of Hillary Clinton by 15 points, yet, many have mentioned there are no polls to be found that show this. Hardball's Chris Matthews (MSNBC) mentioned the comment on his show last night, and said that his producers called the Kerry camp, but they wouldn't say what supposed poll has Kerry leading Clinton at all.

Here is the only story I could find on the issue.

I wrote a note to write about this tonight, right after I heard Matthews mention it on Hardball. He also mentioned the news that Kerry's wife thinks that all of these debates are useless, and that he agrees. I agree myself. Having 9 monkeys on stage, saying the exact opposite of the current administration, unable to do anything but attack Bush at every turn- calling him everything from a liar to a thug...of course it's useless. Americans are turned off by politics and attacks during campaigns...something the democrats have yet to realize. Americans are growing tired of the incessant, Bush is bad, Bush is bad nonsense...It only tarnises the democratic party as a whole. I take it back- maybe the silly debates aren't so pointless afterall.

On the Subject...

On the subject of lies...

And another person's cold and cruel comments- exposing her as heartless not witty like she thinks.

Thanks to my Lisa for being such a good friend. I'd be lost without you to listen, advise, and make me laugh. You're a true gem. <3

As I get older, I recognize more and more that most people are indeed bad people and that there are very few people that care about anyone but themselves. That's really sad if you ask me.

Aqua Teen Hungerforce Links

I found two nice Aqua Teen Hungerforce sites.
Site 1
Site 2

Eliza

I mentioned before that I saw a picture of beautiful Eliza Dushku on the cover of the tv listings guide from the newspaper...here is the picture I was referring to.

Dumping the Reagan Mini-series, the Truth

Funny. CBS hasn't learned anything. They film this horribly offensive movie to air in November...then, they claim they dropped the movie because of the final product and their unhappiness with it...and that it had nothing to do with the pressure from the American people.

Too bad The American Family Association pointed out this little bit of information from CBS themselves! CBS News itself says that they dropped the movie due to "Mounting pressure and criticism from conservatives," tho the pressure wasn't just from conservatives alone. So, it seems from reading CBS' statement on why they dropped the movie, and now reading this- not only can CBS not be honest in their portrayal of Reagan, but they also can't be honest on the real reason they dropped the movie from their network. As I said, CBS has learned NOTHING, and if this dishonesty continues, I urge everyone to go ahead with the planned boycott of the network.

Evansville on Daily Show with Jon Stewart

Evansville and some sewage problem I've never even heard of..along with an interview with the mayor was featured on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart in September. I just got this link of the video from courierpress.com when looking for election results/news.

Not a particularly funny segment...and I don't like most of the new 'reporters' as much as the old guys, but I thought I'd post it anyhow...

Too bad most people in Evansville didn't find this a laughing matter in now Lloyd, interviewed in the segment, is losing to the democratic candidate.

More on this story here

A Note

A note on two things...mainly concerning the post on MTV and it's behavior.

Someone e mailed me earlier and said that they thought it hypocritical to post the thing about MTV and then have some pics of women in the beautiful women page with the mtv logo on it...well, not that the logo was on it, but you get the picture. A second person e mailed me and said that they thought it hypocritical to post the MTV thing and right below it pictures of the one juggy dancer from the Man Show.

Let me clarify a bit. My main concern with MTV is that they promote this music filled with obscenity and violence, and they are a network targeted mainly to young people...on top of that, they air this garbage, then they air hour long "news" specials lead by a racist who calls Jews 'blue eyed devils' and a thug rapper who belongs to a group called 'murder inc,' and they skew the facts. They never mentioned the anti-semitic remarks by the "honorable" reverend...and they never commented on the fact that he is a life long racist. This is dangerous, because their target audience of teenagers and 20 somethings are usually not willing to research more, and many of them take MTV's word for it. MTV is constantly irresponsible with their messages on sex- they condone homosexuality, never mentioning that in the U.S. most HIV cases are within the homosexual community...they skew their "facts" to fit their highly reckless agenda that fits well with the thuggish music videos they air.

Adults can do what they want in their private lives...but, garbage like this shouldn't be thrown at kids like it is by MTV, and they definitely should get completely out of the business of calling their propaganda "news."

So, if you ask me, you can look at naked women all day long if you're an adult...you can watch scantily clad women dance like fools on comedy central, but keep it away from children, and don't target adult programs specifically to children. That was my beef with MTV.

The Always Clueless Europeans

A new survey of Europeans has Israel outraged...and rightfully so. 59% of the people (read idiots) surveyed said that Israel is the world's biggest threat to world peace...beating out Iran, North Korea, and other rabidly insane countries run by madmen. This isn't too shocking, seeing as how Europeans are, for the most part, clueless when it comes to their opinion of anything but themselves. They always seem to have absurd views of the world, and I wouldn't take much of this too seriously. You know that the people involved in this survey are insane when they rank democratic nations as being more dangerous than Iran and North Korea!!!

By the way...another country that is deemed more dangerous to world peace than North Korea and Iran? The United States. Yes, folks, the people who answered this survey are indeed nuts.

The people surveyed said they believe that Israel is the biggest obstacle to peace in the middle east. Funny. Clearly people who are very ignorant on the subject of history. Remember when Clinton tried to broke a peace deal and Israel was willing to give up land that they won in a war (a war they did NOT start...a war in which they were on the defensive)...they were willing to give in to all of Arafat's (Arafat- a known international terrorist) demands? Remember when Israel was willing to sacrifice what no other nation on earth would be asked to sacrifice to simply live in peace? If so, do you also remember that that deal was rejected by the Palestinians, because they wrote all the rules, then changed them at the end, and demande even more? How any European can know this and think that Israel is the obstacle to peace, I have no idea...it boggles my mind. You think it might be the Palestinians who can't stop blowing up innocent men, women, and children who are simply trying to get a slice of pizza, or attend a wedding, or ride the bus home? You think it MIGHT be the palestinian leadership who have said they will never let Israel exist in peace, and that they will never accept Israel's right to exist? Nah...it couldn't be them! It must be those awful awful Israelis. Come on, the Europeans think so, they must be right!

Story 1
Story 2

Poker

I'm like a goddamned detective.

Racists, Whiners, and the Horrible "G" Word (Gasp!!)

These stories truly make me ashamed to be an American...where whiny ass people are trying their best to control everything. No more Christmas holiday- it might offend the godless minority- it's not winter vacation! Newdow- the father who lied about his daughter, then used her as a pawn in his sick, needs-to-get-a-life or a hobby game, has promised he will rid the U.S. of every mention of the awful G word (God, that is...oh dear, I said it!! So sorry to you poor poor athe*sts! Please don't sue the government or the local school board or an organization or a person...)

All of these stories and the thousands you could find just like them- they're a warning to people with sense...people with working brain cells. It's a message to all of you whiners out there- who are such pussies, you get offended by every little thing that is said or done, and then your only course of action is to take it to court or to the media, so everyone will know your feelings are hurt, and that you know how to whine like the best of them- the message to all of you PC pinheads- SHUT THE HELL UP. Stop your whining, stop your blathering, grow some balls, and suck it up! You are ruining the lives of the rest of us, and I'm sorry but misery does NOT love company, and soon you'll be alone in the world. So, keep your whining to yourself, grow some thicker skin, and quit being so hypocritical- most of you fools claim you're "open minded," yet you refuse to let anyone believe anything unless you believe it too, because- if you don't believe it, and they do...their very beliefs are offensive and make you feel 'left out.' Get over it!

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MTV "News"

MTV "news" (so they call it) cracks me up...you have this fool who calls himself Sway, wearing a tourbon looking thing on his head all the time..."reporting" on how the "Honorable" minister Louis Farrakhan has helped Ja Rule (a thug who belongs to a group called Murder Inc) and 50 Cent (a former drug dealer turned rapper) to stop feuding. He went on to say that some find Farrakhan to be a "controversial" figure because of his views, but that he's always worked for positive change in the black community. Oh yeah? Is that accurate "reporting" by MTV "news?" Nope.

Just a few things the "honorable" ('Sway' must have used the word honorable 10 times in 2 minutes) said:

1) Louis Farrakhan, speaking in Baghdad this past July, reportedly said, "the Muslim American people are praying to the almighty God to grant victory to Iraq [in the war]."

2) he has referred to Judaism as a "gutter religion"

3) he once called Hitler a "great man"

4) he refers to Jews as "blue-eyed devils"

This so called "honorable" man is anything but honorable. He organized the highly racist Million Man March (which he still, to this day, claims the million was accurate, tho it was nowhere close to that number of people in attendance.) He is an anti-Semite of the highest order, and it's not shocking that irresponsible MTV is praising the supposed positive things this man has done- and it's even worse that MTV's target audience is young people who aren't being told the real truth about this "minister."

This shouldn't be shocking tho. MTV constantly praises heavy metal artists who glorify violence in their music, rap artists whose lyrics are so profane, some Hell's Angels would be offended- "music" that glorifies violence, drug use, and the objectification of women- spawning an entire dangerous subculture that is out of control in many inner cities. This network pushes the homosexual agenda more than any other network on television- making sure they include at least one homosexual person in every program they air...repeatedly airing programs on sex and how anything is okay as long as you think you're doing the right thing, and you're not harming others- a dangerous message for heterosexuals and homosexuals alike. MTV is rampant with ignorance, irresponsibility, and dangerous messages, and this is just a continuation of that frightening trend to brainwash America's youth.

My Favorite Juggy

More pics (I don't think I ever posted these two) of my favorite Juggy Dancer from The Man Show. She's so hot in all her brownness.

%&*#$$#@!!@#

The kindness of other humans...it just touches your soul. lol.

you little coc* sucking a$$hole.
Grow a di*k and some b*lls. no cookie for you,
di*kwad.

That is the sweetest thing anyone has said to me all day! I nearly wept from joy. :)

Elections

Okay. This is scary. I never thought about this before, but the person who oversees elections on a local level...the county clerk, I guess is the title? That person is an elected official and she (it's a woman in Evansville/Vanderburgh County) is a republican. That's insane. It seems to me that it would be common sense for the person who oversees elections, absentee ballots, etc should be someone who is NOT an elected official, and someone who can be impartial. The election cannot be totally fair, because the person looking over it all is rooting for one of the candidates! Just one thing in politics that makes no sense and completely goes against all common sense.

This is the same deal with judges who have lifetime seats on the courts. They are not elected by the people, they are appointed by politically motivated officials like the president. They hold their positions on the court for their entire life, and the only way to get rid of them is to impeach them, which is an almost impossible task to get thru, and even if impeached, they would have to face the trial, and getting 2/3 of anyone to agree on anything is hard, let alone agreeing on the removal of a judge who is sitting on the court championing your political ideology.

Those are two things that need to totally be changed to assure fairness in this country...two things that it seems scary that anyone ever came up with in the first place.

On a lighter note...I saw tonight's episode of 10-8, and it was great as usual...and I also caught the premiere of the new Fox comedy, "Arrested Development," and the cutest actress ever- Alia Shawkat, is on the show. She was in the Fox Family series (short lived as it may have been) "State of Grace," and was also in the film THREE KINGS...she guest starred in an episode of "Boomtown" on NBC, and an episode of the CBS series, "Without A Trace."

She was funny too, telling her cousin that they should totally kiss and make out to freak their parents out, saying they didn't recognize each other- forcing their parents to let them see each other more often. That started a long running joke...later on the boy was sitting at the table playing card with her, and he said they should kiss to freak them out, which she thought made no sense...he grabs his glass and drinks real fast, saying he needs a drink- then, he's all stumbling with his words, saying "goldfish...ummm...uno." A bit after that, his father, played by Jason Bateman, mentions that the family is moving in with them, and he'll have to share a room with his cousin, which causes the kid to stress again. They showed a scene from the next episode, and he's sitting in the, now, shared room, and you can hear the cousin singing in the shower...funny stuff. I'll be sure to catch the next episode.

Rev. Jesse Lee Peterson

Rev. Jesse Lee Peterson is the author of the new book, SCAM, exposing the black "leaders" in America for the liars and cheats they really are. Jesse Jackson- the king of the shakedown, Al Sharpton- who loves the whole mob mentality, and the NAACP- an organization that is more political than anything else, catering to the utlra- liberal in our society...they are all targets of Peterson's wrath...

Peterson runs an organization called BOND, and is the host of his own talk radio program.

I have this book on hold at the library...heard about it on another talk radio program (I think it might have been The Sean Hannity Show that Peterson was on the other day)...sounds pretty good. I enjoyed Shakedown by Kenneth Timmerman- exposing the truth about Jesse Jackson, and this sounds just as good. The guy has been on Fox News a number of times, and he always makes his liberal counterpart look downright silly- with their constant calls for special racial treatment, reparations, etc.

I also found this really good article linked from the BOND site- discussing the remarks about Islam made by the army general recrently.

Like the writer mentions- the general simply spoke the truth...and, like many, I am sick and tired of morons in this country attacking everything Christian. I guess they feel bad for not being Christian- knowing that they're not living the right way. What other explanation can you come up with? He said nothing wrong, and what he said wasn't controversial to anyone but those on the far far left...

Attack of the AOL CD's

I have 14 AOL CD's sitting here in this little tray thing. I don't have AOL anymore, since I pay $50 a month for cable modem...but, I wouldn't mind having AOL again to search the directory and find people in my area, plus the somewhat decent content AOL gives you. Anyhow...they send these CD's out like crazy, as we all know by now, but I thought I'd save all of the ones I get...don't ask me why. I have a big thing of shelves full of magazines...I need to list all the different magazines I get everyday- not a day goes by where there isn't at least 2 or 3 magazines in the mailbox. I have become obsessed with keeping them and collecting them. I have even more in the basement. Call me weird.