3393 Americans will never become doctors and save lives, will never run businesses and feed families that build a nation. They’ll never teach subsequent generations, create and share unique art, and they’ll never add to American literature or culture again.

They died under a false pretense that they were fighting to free others and open the door to Democracy for those ‘oppressed’-I mean really, you canNOT force someone to vote, and if they really wanted Democracy they could have risen up and fought for it like Americans did in the Revolution

3393 Americans are dead because our President needed a war to pull this nation out of the economic toilet!

They fought for each other, they hoped to survive, and everything else…the mom, apple pie, and politics of Saturday night is just BS!

3393 Americans are dead because this nation was attacked by suicidal wackos who got the nation’s blood pressure up, and happened to have a ‘relationship’ with another ‘Axis of Evil’ power. COME ON! A relationship? There’s NO evidence at all of a “COOPERATIONAL RELATIONSHIP” BETWEEN THE TWO!!

We now know from British documents that intelligence before the war was being focused and manipulated to make the case for war almost a year before it started.

3393 Americans are dead! They died on June 6th 1944 Invading France to impose democracy on a people who should have risen up for it themselves, to fight a dictator who never attacked the US but considered himself at war with the US, and who had no cooperational ties to Japan-the nation that DID attack the US.

3393 Americans are dead now.
By Sam Pender

For those of you whose German is a bit rusty…The mullah on the right is labeled ‘Cliche’ and the one on the left, ‘Reality'

P.S. MSM is avoiding this photo like the plague!!

Remember that your answer needs to be honest, yet spontaneous.

Please scroll down slowly and give due consideration to each line.

THE SITUATION: You are in Florida, Miami to be specific. There is chaos all around you caused by a hurricane with severe flooding. This is a flood of biblical proportions. You are a photojournalist working for a major newspaper, and you’re caught in the middle of this epic disaster.

The situation is nearly hopeless. You’re trying to shoot career-making photos. There are houses and people swirling around you, some disappearing under the water. Nature is unleashing all of its destructive fury.
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THE TEST: Suddenly you see a woman in the water. She is fighting for her life, trying not to be taken down with the debris. You move closer. Somehow the woman looks familiar. You suddenly realize who it is. It’s Hillary Clinton!

At the same time you notice that the raging waters are about to take her under forever. You have two options–you can save the life of Hillary Clinton, or you can shoot a dramatic Pulitzer Prize winning photo, documenting the death of one of the world’s most powerful women.
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THE TEST QUESTION: Here’s the test question, and please give an honest answer……

Would you select high contrast color film, or would you go with the classic simplicity of a black and white photo?

The squared away Marine guard snaps to attention, Salutes, and says: “Nice pigs, sir.”

The President replies “These are not pigs. These are authentic Arkansas Razorback Hogs. I got one for Senator Hillary Clinton, and I got one for Speaker of The House Nancy Pelosi.”

The squared away Marine again snaps to attention, salutes, and says, “Excellent trade, sir.”

Catch and Release (1.5 of 5)

Chick Flick alert!! Deb was up for double feature, and this was number 2 (In more ways than one.) Ok Jenifer Garner is still cute in an alien kind of way, and she has the charm from ‘˜13 going on 30′™ but her excitement from Alias and Daredevil is nowhere to found. The story starts with wedding flowers being delivered to a funeral, you see her fiancée died during the bachelor party, funny’¦ I know, but not in this movie. By the end of the film, I am fairly sure he died during a fishing accident but seeing it would have helped this film tenfold. The rest is the banter between his two best friends (one of which is played like a hippy fuzzball by Kevin Smith) and a ‘˜Movie Director’™ friend from Hollywood. During the banter we find out that the fiancée was rich, no one knew and was paying $3000 a month to a woman in Los Angeles. It sounds like a lot of drama…but basically it was boring. Kevin wasn’t that funny, kind of sad mostly, Jennifer hooks up with the wrong guy in the end. And we find out the kid wasn’t really her fiancée’s. A chick flick’¦ directed by a chick’¦ for chicks, depressed ones.

The man thought a moment then replied? “A martini, please”.
The robot clicked a couple of times and mixed the best martini the man had ever had.

The robot then asked, “Sir, what is your IQ?”
The man answered “oh, about 164.”

The robot then proceeded to discuss the ‘theory of relativity”interstellar space travel’, ‘the latest medical breakthroughs’, etc… the man was most impressed. He left the bar but thought he would try a different tack. He returned and took a seat. Again the robot clicked and asked what he would have.

“A Martini please?”
Again it was superb. The robot again asked “What is your IQ sir?”
This time the man answered, “Oh, about 100″. So the robot started Discussing Nascar racing, the latest basketball scores, and what to expect the Dodgers to do this week end.

The guy had to try it one more time. So he left, returned and took a stool…. Again a martini, and the question, “What is your IQ?” This time the man drawled out ” Uh….. bout 50″..??

The robot clicked then leaned close and very slowly asked,
“A-R-E Y-O-U-R P-E-O-P-L-E G-O-I-N-G T-O N-O-M-I-N-A-T-E H-I-L-L-A-R-Y – ?-?-?-?”

-CLICK HERE TO SIGN THE PLEDGE-

It always amazes me when democrat defeatists (See Copperheads…etc) say we cant have another Vietnam…when it was bullshit like this defeatist resolution that caused the breakdown of Vietnam War.
-Don

I come before you tonight not to make amends, not to make it good, curry any favor or find any middle ground.

I am, more or less, a lame duck. You’™ve had your 100 hours of party time. I know. I won’t get any legislation passed without some major bottom-kissing. Maybe something on illegal aliens. That health insurance thing I’™ll be talking about later tonight is pretty much for show. I know it isn’t going anywhere. A proposal to raise middle-class taxes for a healthcare plan you don’t even want? What was I thinking?

None of that really matters. Not now. Those are peacetime issues we’™ve been bickering about for a long time, and I don’t expect we’™ll resolve them anytime soon.

So what is the best thing I can do tonight? I can tell you the truth. What none of you want to hear. What you’™ve been stopping your ears to. The ugly truth.

The State of the Union is a disaster. I did my best, but I made mistakes, and my best wasn’t good enough.

We went to war without building up our army, and now, I am trying to make up for that.

But that is not the disaster.

The disaster is that you, Congress and the American people, do not care to fight.

faced with a fundamental challenge to our own security, to everything we believe in, to the world order to peace and security for which we and our parents fought so hard for so many years, you now want to pretend like none of these threats are real. You want to surrender to the evil I have been telling you about. An evil that, unchecked, can consume large parts of the world and threatens to usher in a dark age.

You didn’t like it when I talked about evil. Sounded too simple, too uncompromising, too moralistic. Too ‘¦ biblical.

I don’t know what else you call people who fly passenger jets into office buildings; who rape women in front of their husbands and children, and execute their opponents in acid baths; who seek to spread tyrannical and archaic religious regimes that enslave women and stifle fundamental freedoms. Who want to dominate the world’s primary oil fields with nuclear weapons.

I call it evil. Works for me.

I’™ve heard all the comparisons between Iraq and Vietnam. George Bush’s Vietnam. The myopia is astonishing, even for me, George Bush, who you all think just isn’t that smart. But I learned something in school: People who don’t learn from history are doomed to repeat it.

Didn’t you learn anything from Vietnam? Didn’t you see what happened when your predecessors in Congress, disgruntled and responding to public opinion polls just like you are, voted repeatedly to undermine an ally that was fighting for its survival and making headway against evil? There, I’™ve said it again. Millions of people were murdered or imprisoned.

And then, those who wished us ill ‘¦ the evil-doers ‘¦ evil, evil evil ‘¦ took advantage of our weakness.

The Soviet Union, evil personified, invaded Afghanistan, knowing we’™d do nothing about it. Iran defied all international norms, took our sovereign embassy and held our people hostage for 444 days. They knew we’™d do nothing about it. It was a massive humiliation we have been paying for with our own precious blood ever since.

Where do you think this war we are now engaged in started, anyway? Just ask Osama bin Laden, veteran of the Afghan war against the Soviets, what lesson he learned from two decades of American appeasement and withdrawal in the face of provocation.

Now, you want to negotiate with two of the world’s primary sponsors of terrorism, who are directly involved in support of the terrorists who murder our soldiers. You want to make an arrangement by which we will exit Iraq, and leave it to them. To loot, to murder, to fight over, while the rest of the world’s evil regimes look on, see our weakness, and plot their own moves.

You can try that, with resolutions, by cutting spending for troops in the field, as you seek the short-term satisfaction of withdrawal. But I remain President of the United States, and as long as I am, I will be no lame duck in this fight.

I will engage evil directly where I find it, in Iraq and in Iran. With an aggressive and ruthless new strategy and a plan to build our army as we should have a long time ago, I will show the American people that we can fight and we can win. I expect that the American people, though misled by their press and many of their elected representatives, will see results and will get it. Because the American people are a people who in the end don’t give up, don’t stop fighting, refuse to lose, and will choose to win. I have faith in them.

Oh, there’s another one of those words you don’t like.

A nation that is not willing to fight for what it believes in, for its place in the world, is not worthy of its own ideals. But that is not America. I now intend to help America restore its faith in itself. By fighting this necessary fight that we cannot afford to lose.

So ‘¦ are you with me, or against us?

– Jules Crittenden

I speak peace when peace is spoken, But I speak war when your hate is provoking, The season is open 24-7-365, Man up yo time to ride, No need to hide behind slogans of deceit, Claiming that you’re a religion of peace, We just don’t believe you, We can clearly see through, The madness that you’re feeding your people, Jihad the cry of your unholy war, Using the willing, the weak and poor, From birth drowning in propaganda, rhetoric and slander, All we can say is damn ya

My forefathers fought and died for this here’¦
I’m stronger than your war of fear’¦
Are we clear?
If you step in my hood’¦
It’s understood’¦It’s open season

I don’t need a faith that’s blind, Where death and hate bring me peace of mind, With views that are stuck deep in the seventh century, So much sand in your eyes to blind to see, The venom that you leaders preach, Is the path to your own destruction, Your own demise, You might say that I don’t understand but your disgust for me is what I realize, Surprise!
Your homicidal ways has got the whole world watching, Whole world scoping, So if you bring it to my home base, Best believe it, The season’s open

I see you, Hell yeah I see you, Motherfucker naw, I don’t wanna be you, If you come to my place, I’ll drop more than just some bass, Yo you’ll get a taste of a, Sick motherfucker from the Dirty, I ain’t worrying not a fucking bit, I’m telescoping like Hubble, Yo you in trouble, Yo on the double, I’m wild with mine, Bring that style with mine, Fuck with my family I’ll end your line, Just the way it is, Just the way it be, Do you understand? No matter if you’re woman or man, or child, My profile is crazy, That shit you do doesn’t amaze me, I’m ready to blaze thee
I don’t give a damn what god you claim, I’ve seen the innocent that you’ve slain, On my streets you’re just fair game, Like a pig walk to your slaughter, The heat here is so much hotter, And my views won’t teeter totter or fluctuate, Step to me you just met your fate, And I’ll annihilate, With the skill of a Shogun assassin, Slicing and dicing precise with a passion, In any shape form or fashion, Bring it to my home, Welcome to the danger zone, Cause your attitude’s the reason, The triggers keep squeezing, The hunt is on and it’s open season
It’s Open Season

1956 – Vice Principal comes over, takes a look at Jack’s rifle, goes to his car and gets his to show Jack.
2006 – School goes into lockdown, FBI called, Jack hauled off to jail and never sees his truck or gun again. Counselors called in for traumatized students and teachers.

Scenario: Johnny and Mark get into a fist fight after school.
1956 – Crowd gathers. Mark wins. Johnny and Mark shake hands and end up best friends. Nobody goes to jail, nobody arrested, nobody expelled.
2006 – Police called, SWAT team arrives, arrests Johnny and Mark. Charge them with assault, both expelled even though Johnny started it.

Scenario: Jeffrey won’t be still in class, disrupts other students.
1956 – Jeffrey sent to office and given a good paddling by Principal. Sits still in class.
2006 – Jeffrey given huge doses of Ritalin. Becomes a zombie. School gets extra money from state because Jeffrey has a disability.

Scenario: Billy breaks a window in his father’s car and his Dad gives him a whipping.
1956 – Billy is more careful next time, grows up normal, goes to college, and becomes a successful businessman.
2006 – Billy’s Dad is arrested for child abuse. Billy removed to foster care and joins a gang. Billy’s sister is told by state psychologist that she remembers being abused herself and their Dad goes to prison. Billy’s mom has affair with psychologist.

Scenario: Mark gets a headache and takes some asprin to school.
1956 – Mark shares headache medicine with Principal out on the smoking dock.
2006 – Police called, Mark expelled from school for drug violations. Car searched for drugs and weapons.

Scenario: Pedro fails high school English.
1956 : Pedro goes to summer school, passes English, goes to college.
2006 : Pedro’s cause is taken up by state democratic party. Newspaper articles appear nationally explaining that teaching English as a requirement for graduation is racist. ACLU files class action lawsuit against state school system and Pedro’s English teacher. English banned from core curriculum. Pedro given diploma anyway but ends up mowing lawns for a living because he can’t speak English.

Scenario: Johnny takes apart leftover firecrackers from the 4th of July, puts them in a model airplane paint bottle, blows up a red ant bed .
1956 – Ants die.
2006 – BATF, Homeland Security, FBI called. Johnny charged with domestic terrorism, FBI investigates parents, siblings removed from home, computers confiscated, Johnny’s Dad goes on a terror watch list and is never allowed to fly again.

Scenario: Johnny falls while running during recess and scrapes his knee. He is found crying by his teacher, Mary. Mary, hugs him to comfort him.
1956 – In a short time Johnny feels better and goes on playing.
2006 – Mary is accused of being a sexual predator and loses her job. She faces 3 years in State Prison.

Mel shot the film in HD’¦and while the lush jungle is Lush and the deep vistas are vista like’¦the action is very MiniDV. The motion blur gets irritating’¦and kind of takes you out of the moment by being too technological. Super 70 would have made this film phenomenal’¦but the budget vs. returns would have been in ‘˜Heavens Gate’™ territory. A feather in the cap for Mel’¦.but it’s not ‘˜The Passion’™ or ‘˜Braveheart’™’¦.just good storytelling with dash of history’¦.think ‘˜The Patriot’™’¦in underwear.

40 Things you may not have heard about recently:

1. The first battalion of the new Iraqi Army has graduated and is on active duty.
2. Over 60,000 Iraqis now provide security to their fellow citizens.
3. Nearly all of Iraq’s 400 courts are functioning.
4. The Iraqi judiciary is fully independent.
5. Oct. 6, power generation hit 4,518 megawatts-exceeding prewar average.
6. All 22 universities and 43 technical institutes and colleges are open, as are nearly all primary and secondary schools.
7. By Oct. 1, the Coalition rehabbed 1,500 schools, 500 more than scheduled.
8. Teachers earn from 12 to 25 times their former salaries.
9. All 240 hospitals and more than 1200 clinics are open.
10. Doctors salaries are at least eight times what they were under Saddam.
11. Pharmaceutical distribution has gone from nothing to 700 tons in May to a current total of 12,000 tons.
12. The Coalition has administered 22 million vaccinations to Iraq’s children.
13. A Coalition program has cleared over 14,000 kilometers of Iraq’s 27,000 kilometers of weed choked canals that irrigate tens of thousands of farms. This project has created jobs for more than 100,000 Iraqi men and women.
14. We have restored over three-quarters of prewar telephone services and over two-thirds of the potable water production.
15. 95 percent of all prewar bank customers have service and first-time customers are opening accounts daily.
16. Iraqi banks are making loans to finance businesses.
17. The central bank is fully independent.
18. Iraq has one of the worlds most growth-oriented investment & banking laws.
19. Iraq has a single, unified currency for the first time in 15 years.
20. Satellite TV dishes are legal.
21. Foreign journalists aren’t on 10-day visas paying mandatory and extortionate fees to the Ministry of Information for minders and other government spies.
22. There is no Ministry of Information.
23. There are more than 170 newspapers.
24. Foreign journalists (and everyone else) are free to come and go.
25. A nation that had not one single element — legislative, judicial or executive — of a representative government, now does.
26. In Baghdad alone residents have selected 88 advisory councils. Baghdad’s first democratic transfer of power in 35 years happened when the city council elected its new chairman.
27. Today in Iraq chambers of commerce, business, school and professional
organizations are electing their leaders all over the country.
28. 25 ministers, selected by the most representative governing body in Iraq’s history, run the day-to-day business of government.
29. The Iraqi government regularly participates in international events. Since July the Iraqi government has been represented in over two dozen international meetings, including those of the UN General Assembly, the Arab League, the World Bank and IMF and, today, the Islamic Conference Summit. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs today announced that it is reopening over 30 Iraqi embassies around the world.
30. Shia religious festivals that were all but banned, aren’t.
31. For the first time in 35 years, in Karbala thousands of Shiites celebrate the pilgrimage of the 12th Imam.
32. The Coalition has completed over 13,000 reconstruction projects, large and small, as part of a strategic plan for the reconstruction of Iraq.
33. Uday and Queasy are dead — and no longer feeding innocent Iraqis to the zoo lions, raping the young daughters of local leaders to force cooperation, torturing Iraq’s soccer players for losing games, or murdering critics.
34. Children aren’t imprisoned/murdered if parents disagree with the government.
35. Political opponents aren’t imprisoned, tortured, executed, maimed, or are forced to watch their families die for disagreeing with Saddam.
36. Millions of long-suffering Iraqis no longer live in perpetual terror.
37. Qatar is reforming education to give more choices to parents.
38. Jordan is accelerating market economic reforms.
39. Saddam is gone. (O.K. the news did report that one)
40. Iraq is free.

California became a state.
The state had no electricity.
The state had no money There were gun fights in the streets.
So basically…, it was just like California today.

Ram Update: Monday night football was blast The HD signal was great, but it was in Cleveland so the Hi-Def shots of the fans made me want the blurry days back-ewwww.
We won, clinching a playoff spot, and if we win this week-we clinch the division. But Bulger still looked off, and once again our defense answered the call. Sacks, fumbles and interceptions-the whole gamut. From this point forward I am going to chant Warner-s name for 5 Minutes before every game-maybe I can will 3 INT-s in the first quarter so Warner can come in and take us through to the promised land.

D-Mo Update:The train came in-just a little late. Time to start working again.

Rant:
Arnold: When cities want to sue you for more money, and Illegal-s stage walk-outs to protest you, you must be do something right, keep going my boy.
Bush: Answer their stupid questions about stonewalling France and Germany, (No krauts or frogs dropped blood in Iraq) Answer their stupid questions about Halliburton overcharging the pentagon (Kickbacks to the Kuwaitis for the free gas during wartime)
But stay the course- I am behind you 99% (Anti-Gay marriage law takes the power away from the states, we need to give more to them)
WHO: 30,000 died from global warming last year. Ummmm huh. They died from heat, cold, flooding and starvation. Just like every year-for the past 1000. READ THE FACTS to the people-not the trends! If you want to use trends: The current heating trend is still 5 degrees behind the one in the 1600-s. But don-t worry-. they couldn-t charge their air conditioners then either. Kyoto treaty will cripple our economy and destroy 70% of the other emerging nations. That-s why everyone is starting to drop out of it, way to see the light Russia (That earns you 2 chips in the Rebuild Iraq poker game)
You want to sell 1 million cars in 1 month?. put the Toyota Prius Engine in a Cooper or PT Cruiser. Toyota I love the way you lead the way…but please if we wanted the ugliest car of the year-..we would try to find an Aztec somewhere.
Mayor Hahn, get you ass back to work on the LAX project and stop appeasing the Mexican-Americans (ever notice how American-Mexicans doest sound right-hmmmm) Arnold has enough trouble without the guy he paid 1 million in taxes to last year climbing up his butt.
(-climbing down off the soapbox)

Define yourself:
Goofyfoot: Run with socks on the kitchen floor-then stop…if your right foot is forward..you are Goofyfoot.
Liberal: Listen to NPR (Los Angeles) (90.7)-if you can last 1 hour without changing the channel-you are liberal.
Gay: Look at the sole of your foot-if you look over your shoulder-you are Gay.

Plans for the New Year:
Solar Panels for Pool
Sun Shade and External TV for Pool area.
Program a new Online Calendar for WDA
Program a new Access Database for Quote Creation.
Create DOLLAR DOCS Section for the OMSMedia Website.
Program a new Online Expense Program for WDA
Finish Altivo-s new Storefront
Build New Pedestal Bed for Master Bedroom
Build New Modular Desk for Room 3
Get a Weimaraner and a Chocolate Lab puppy by February 14th.

Heading down to the Chargers/Green Bay game-peace out.

House Update: Sorry all, been swamped beyond belief the last couple weeks. Anyhow here are the latest Blogs: Escrow closed on the house on November 21st. The owner signed a contract for 30 day Escrow + 5 Days. After which he will have to pay $90 a day for up to thirty days. Well after the house sold he found out from his lawyer that the house he was buying will not be ready till December 15th, so it looks like We will still be in the Big M till then. Phil and Jen and Andy are moving into the big M after we leave. P and J have already moved all their belongings in to the Office and garage at the Big M, and are living with her mother till we are gone. So a one-day-move and a one-day-carpeting-cleaning and the Big M ownership changes hands. Aunt Dot is still living with us as she tries to secure her house, which now may be a Mobile home. She doesn’t want to move out to the new house because of the drive, but she may have to suck it up a bit til her new digs close. Her long time friend kicked her out when her children came for thanksgiving, and was going to invite her back after they left…but alas one of them has decided to stay. So Dot is with us, but she is fun so all is good.

Rams Update: Rams have been on a terror of late and have blown through opponents despite the poor play of Bulger. The game last Sunday showed we are ready for our playoff run with a complete ass whooping of the Minnesota Vikings. The Defense is now ranked Number #1 and can give any offense in the league fits. With 5-0, Little and Archeletta on the field even the best offense couldn’t find a place to go. And with Sehorn as a safety the Adam Archeletta blitzes worked to perfection. I want Warner in, but if Bulger keeps winning, there will be no reason to take him out…dammit. Next game is on Monday Night against the Cleveland Browns, heading over to JO’s to watch it in HDTV..boner already.

P.S. speaking of boners, D-Mo is a few days late…but nobody say nuthin’ you’ll jinx it.

The Matrix Revolutions (4.3 of 5)

The Film itself gets a 3.8 but using all three films as I reference it bumps it up to one of the best overall trilogies to hit the screen. The final chapter does what it is supposed to do-wrap it up. In a truly tragic fashion, of the likes of Shakespeare, the story comes to a close the best way I can imagine. Hints were given throughout the trilogy on how it has to end, but to see them get there was wonderful and dynamic journey. I have read some reviews, and just like with the Original Matrix, I don-t think a lot of people-Got It- Some even were confused on what was the real world-and what was the Matrix-oh well. This installment is about the real-life war in the underground city Zion. The Machines decides to mount an offensive to kill all the humans. The battle sequences are brilliant and eye-popping. The humans use machine guns mounted on Mechanical Exoskeletons… ala-James Cameron-s ALIENS- The Matrix comes into play as Neo makes a pact with The Machine World to return harmony to the Matrix (sent into turmoil by a virus-like Agent Smith-see Matrix Reloaded) if the machines call off the attack on the humans of Zion. In the matrix there is a Hallway fight (Good-but Matrix 1-s was better) and the Final battle with Agent Smith (Superman style), which was amazing, but black suits fighting on a rainy night makes it a little to hard to follow. But like I said before-a great ending to a great trilogy.
So why isn-t it a 5?…well the emotional ride of the first one seems to disappear in the sequels. These feel more like video games we don-t have too much invested in. Sure I still love-playing Half-Life-but it was nothing like the first time we played Death match at the WDA Offices-that was almost magical. You care about Neo, Trinity and Morpheus-etc, but not nearly the same as the first film.
Trilogy Overview: The overall journey is a simple one, A rebel is enlighten to the plight of oppressed people (including himself) and is encouraged to join the fight. He is the one that stops the entire war and saves millions. Sparticus, Jeff Goldblum, Bruce Willis-.it-s been done. Now add some biblical subtext and shoot it like an Anime come to life and you have a trilogy with some of the best eye-candy and-ohhhhhh- moments in history. The cool factor comes in when you find out that machines are using human bodies as a power source and created a virtual world called the Matrix to entertain their minds and to keep them alive-. cool huh? While The LOTR trilogy is a beautiful and epic trilogy the wiz bang award goes to Matrix with its no holds barred R-rating. Another great point is the fact that not a lot of people get it, and it-s kind of fun to explain to them because they look at you like you are from another planet. Bravo-W- Brothers-take a year off-.you guys earned it.