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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

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.

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.

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.

Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe.
Fcuknig amzanig huh?

-Harry Knowles www.aintitcoolnews.com

After the game, he asked her how she liked the experience. “Oh, I really liked it,” she said, “especially the really tight pants and all of the big muscles, but I just couldn’t understand why they were killing each other for 25 cents.”

Dumbfounded, her date asked, “What on earth do you mean?” “Well, I saw them flip a coin and one team got it and then for the rest of the game, all they kept screaming was: “Get the quarter back! Get the quarter back!”

Well, the Escrow and Loan paperwork are all signed and in the mail. Escrow is set to close on November 13st. The seller’s new house went into probate so our move-in date has moved back to December 14th. The seller is going to pay our rent till then so all is good. On a side note the ‘Big M’ will not be leaving the family as Phil and Jenn (and maybe Andy) have shown interest in moving in after we are gone. So despite the fact the local fires are making us cringe because our Hazard insurance has not been signed yet (Loan must be in place before our insurance company even gets the request) All seems to be falling into place. Next up on the hit parade is figuring out what to set my deductions at so I can pay for these digs. Look out Money 2003…here I come.

Out of Time (1.5 of 5)
Denzel/Florida/Dirty cops intriguing story-why only 2 stars? cause it was BORING!!!. It gets 1 point for being in focus. I went to the theater to see The Rundown, which despite what Yahoo Movies said, was not playing at my local theater. So Deb and I decided to see the next available movie. We have skipped over our normal theater going schedule to work on securing our new house, so 90% percent of the films playing we have not seen. I knew the film was a Elmore Leonard wannabe with a sub par film crew and uninspired performances throughout-but I knew it was going to be better than Good Boy. Well it just wasn-t worth it. Most of the time was spent ripping apart what was on screen: GPS-s working inside cases, shoddy police work, and god only knows what was in Denzel-s hair in that one scene. All the Episodes of Cold Case/CSI/Law and Order etc-were better than this 9 Dollar film. We figured it out way too early. The only laughs in the film wouldn-t even have registered in any other film. Ahhhhhhh it was almost like paying to see an Indie!!

The current Anti-Piracy adds playing at the theaters for some reason seem a bit odd, then Deborah pointed it out. The-PAINTER- is wearing a Skull and Crossbones on his hat-A PIRATE HAT-I sense a mixed message here. My take on piracy is a bit different-if you get caught with the contraband-you pay the people you stole it from-that-s it-so don-t get caught. Also-painter- is a Union job-so I don-t know what he is bitching about-he he.

Fires:
What were you thinking living in a canyon surrounded by brush with a wood shake roof-how the hell did you even get homeowner insurance? That being said-can the perp firebugs that started all this be burned on live TV?-that would be cool.
We are at war people-all safety measures must be taken, you cant just hope and pray that bad things wont happen. Boy Scout your life-then you can be comfortable.

Mike Moore:
Finally saw Bowling for Columbine. More or less it takes a look at the gun culture of the USA. A member of the NRA and sharpshooter as a child, Moore shows us what the gun culture has done to families involving the Flint Murders, Columbine and the Oklahoma Bombing. All having ties to Michigan (betcha didnt know that!!). And in his very entertaining way shows how dumb white people are in this county. Not really sure where Mike stands on this stuff, but there is a reason people want guns, and a reason white people fear blacks and neither was really examined. He just chalked it up to dumb white people. He gets K-mart to stop selling handgun ammo and almost gets Charlton Heston to say the truth about why there is so much gun violence in the US (Canada has the same percentage of guns and only 30 deaths a year, if you are real smart you could figure why on your own…hint:It’s a color that is not in the rainbow). Bowling was an entertaining film but his first film-Roger and Me- was better overall .-Roger and Me- is about the demise of his hometown of Flint Michigan when GM decides to close the Car Plant that kept the city alive. Politically I was against his views…but he has a way of making the film entertaining none the less.

The days were turning cooler as the embers of early battles througout the land erupted like a boiling caldron. And as the armies of the many lands raged, the Legion held strong in its homeland.

The first incursion came from the Red Desert Warriors of the Southwest. But the proud SpiralHorns fought valiantly and, at days end, the invaders were demoralized and routed.

Then, with many eyes throughout the land watching, the Legion met the Dark Falconers of the Southeast. But this old foe proved no match, and the homeland remained secure.

Rejoicing was brief as word came that the Emerald Bay Brigade was marching on the homeland. Many minds within the Clan of SpiralHorns regarded the impending battle as the first true test of the Legion in its recent defense of the Homeland.

And so, AvengerRam spoke unto the Legion, and said: “Sound your battle cries, my friends. We shall defend the homeland once more, and destroy our attackers as they come. And we shall then march forth and show the armies of the many lands that it is the Legion of SpiralHorns who stand ready to put fear in their hearts!”

The wind blew from the North. The Emerald Bay Brigade would arrive soon.