A fun little game here

If you like to test your geography skills... However being nearly there doesn't cut it

I scored 93% and 7 miles ( not sure what that means)

lead to mob rule..chaos..destruction

and CHINA will invest in your country

BEIJING, China (Reuters) -- Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe and Chinese leader Hu Jintao signed an agreement on economic cooperation on Tuesday, building on ties at a time the debt-laden, isolated African state is seeking new sources of aid.

This is very sadly part of a pattern. If their is an international Pariah State, china will do buisness with them.

People need to start to hold china accountable for their actions

I'll let you know whenever that happens.

I droped 23 points in TLB

Ok.. Now I need to start back on my wonderful pace of blogging.....

The Dry Spell is over.....

My dry spell in blogging has been brought up from its lethargy…. I have risen from the grave with something that sets my wheels a turning on what I should talk about today. And the Democratic Leadership Council has earned my thanks by giving me some fodder to Blog with.

Democrats Discussing 'What We Stand For'
By Susan Jones
CNSNews.com Senior Editor
July 25, 2005

(CNSNews.com) - The Democratic Leadership Council, which describes itself as a centrist group, is holding a "national conversation" on what the party should stand for.

The meeting in Columbus, Ohio, began on Saturday and winds up Monday with a speech from Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, the not-yet-running-for-president candidate.

"At a time when Washington remains gripped in partisan warfare based on the Bush administration's narrow and ideologically driven agenda, it's a good time for Democrats to look beyond the Beltway and talk honestly with each other about what we should stand for," the DLC said in a press release.

"That will be the primary purpose of the DLC 2005 National Conversation," it added.

What is the point of a platform then... Honestly people. We get allot of big wheels in the party togther.. they hold meetings every four years and come up with a Party Platform which canidates are ( more or less) supposed to run on.

State parties also come up with their own platform.

Now... they have elected a National party leadership team, they have passed a platform.. and they even nominated a canidate....

and they don't know what they stand for

I guess the headline from American Dad is true... "Democratic party missing, feared dead."

Workplace confession

I make up figures about my productivity

to my boss who alters the figures to look good to his boss

who makes them look good for her boss.....

does anything I do have any meaning at work other then to give me a stream of cash? I can't seem to find it if their is another meaning

About my blogging block

I was sitting back on the sofa and vegging out on some anime when I came to a deeper understanding of my blogging block.

Part of it, a large part of it, has to do with the fact I am burning more and more out of the political system. I have for most of my "political adulthood" in this country been outside the right/left system. As I matured and my beliefs changed with the events of our days I finally picked a side. But while I am a republican, and by the understanding of most folks a conservative I still am a fundemental outsider.

I don't care if Team Red or Team blue wins, I only care if this country wins. And all around I see people who play games with this country over politics. Right and Left both have their hands tainted in this affair for the heart of our nation. The more I see it the more it sickens me at a deep part of my personhood.We have a government that does things that look right or sound right instead of doing that which is right.

We are fighting a fundemental war for the survival of what is fundemental to our national soul, and it is just another brick being tossed by a mouse at a cat. I know it has always been this way, but at least in the past their was some seduction to it. It is all so naked and so vulgar.

I am going through a stressful personal time in my life's transition and right now I really don't feel like playing with people who are more intrested in the wars of some artifical tribes then a rational discourse for the heart of this nation.

I voted for a republican because he at least said he was going to do something helpful, versus the democrat who said he would do things my studies have shown me to be harmful.... but in all honesty nothing really has been done.... all of it is the same.

I'll be back up to blogging some more of a normal tone later.... but, I felt I needed some confession of the sickness i feel in my heart. I think to the CNN documentary when they were interviewing an Iraqi man fearful of the US withdrawing and abandoning his people again... and I hear people on the left and the right use that man but not help him. It just all makes me ill.... all of it.

We as human beings should be better then that. I listened to the reporters in Great Britian questioning Tony Blair and John Howard so willing to sacrifice those people who have suffered so much in Iraq just to have peace in their little corner of the world.... In this country few would be so debauched and Inhumane. We as Americans are born in a nation that has been full of purpose and destiny. And I hear that call, the drive to be a people of destiny and hope in that Iraqi man's voice... and so much of the squabbles over judges and appointments... all of it seems so very petty.

Europe has lost its way in guilt, It has lost its way in a heart that feels pain and suffering and recoils from it. It tries to fight those pains and suffering that are acts of god.... Well, the greatest evils in this world do come from the hearts of men. The greatest treasure of this world lies in the hearts of men. We can forever feel guilt, or we can take control of our destiny and control over our actions. Be an active part of the world.

And to embrace an active part in this world you know that the treasures that are material in this world have limits. But the treasures of the heart are truely boundless. We can try to give everyone clothes, shelter, health insurance, and food but we will exhaust the material treasures and lead to a great collapse. Or we can go out and slay the great beasts, banish the monsters from the darkness, and allow others to live-and to act- as free men.

With thoughts like this right now, thoughts about my own future and my desire to be one who helps people and fights for them so they can be free of the evil men who rule much of this world... I have trouble dealing with trivial things like what the definition of "Plame" is... or the politics of sexual liberation. These things to me seem truely fruitless.

I'll be back to normal soon... I swear

More Blogger's block

It is really annoying, even more annoying then the block I get when I am writing my stories. I have some news that i sorta want to comment on but nothing seems to come out any good. I have a neat post to reply to but again... Nothing seems to form in a good reply.

I should be blogging as normal tonight....

Well looks like Barney was right....

I think Judge Roberts wasn't a good pick.. not in the sense that he isn't a good lawyer/judge. No I think this wasn't a good pick from a political standpoint. Their were allot of qualified hispanics with a similar judicial temperment... and it has been my experience working around doctors that places like Harvard and Yale are highly overated anyway... I think Bush could have done something with some more boldness and kept the senate in their place.

Al Drudge is putting his money on Roberts

President Bush has chosen federal appeals court judge John Roberts, 50, as his nominee to the Supreme Court...

Roberts: 'We continue to believe that Roe v. Wade was wrongly decided and should be overruled'...

All the major news services are saying it would be one of the two edith's.....

I am having to go with the major news services here... unless Drudge has a double secret source

Just how much evil can one little dog do?

And in other fun court news......

Sexual harrasment doesn't even need to be a sexual overture or even a hostile enviroment anymore....

Thanks California

The case involves former employees at the Valley State Prison for Women in Chowchilla who complained about then-warden Lewis Kuykendall, who was sexually involved with at least three women at the same time.

The plaintiffs, Edna Miller and Frances Mackey, sued the Department of Corrections for sexual harassment in 1999.

A lower court ruled against the women, saying they "were not themselves subjected to sexual advances and were not treated any differently than male employees." The state Supreme Court overturned that decision Monday.

An isolated instance of favoritism would not ordinarily constitute sexual harassment, Chief Justice Ronald M. George wrote in the unanimous decision.

But when it is so widespread that "the demeaning message is conveyed to female employees that they are viewed by management as 'sexual playthings' or that the way required for women to get ahead in the workplace is by engaging in sexual conduct," it constitutes harassment, he wrote.

Both women subsequently left their jobs, and Mackey died in 2003. An Internal Affairs investigation in 1998 resulted in Kuykendall's retirement.

so you are a manager.. or some other person "In authority" you have a perfectly consentual relationship with one of your female subordinates (henceforth to be known as "a really dumb idea anyway")... you can be found guilty of sexual harrasment if the other female employees think that you aren't treating them as well because you're not having sex with them.

so what first covered abuse of power, then turned into some metaphysical thing almost... now you don't even have to have anything bad at all happen to you... and you can still sue

aint this a grand country?

Things on the beeb that confuse me

Beeb

"Deferred success" should replace the idea of failure for low-achieving pupils, a teachers' organisation will hear at its annual conference.

Deferred success... does anyone else think that is weird? Now what is deffered success you might ask?

If you engage a builder to build a 5-foot wall and he only does it 4' 9", you fetch him back.

"You don't demolish it and make him start all over again - he simply lays another course of bricks to 'top it up'.

"But failing an exam - especially if it involves repeating an entire year - does demolish and make you start again," said Mr Paxton.

I am at a loss here... so If a elementary, Middle, or high school student fails he only has to re do what he didn't pass on? Well then why even show up for classes... I mean just do a little here, a little there... I mean heck kids don't need structure.

The only sane thing about this.... is that this is mearly a proposal. I hope they have some degree of sanity and not pass this

I am going to have to modify my blogger or haloscan settings.

After looking in the "manage comments" section I sure as heck see allot of folk replying to posts. I think I am going to need to increase the number of old posts avalible on the main site so I don't lose those posters due to time or a number of posts I make.

Some of the folks who commented on the gay marriage thing.... I am going to be making a condensed reply to all of your points.

But my position was unclear to some so I do want to clarrify it a bit better.

I think at this point in time humanity doesn't have enough evolution to deal with marriage of any kind with a proper social response. I think the only reason we want to keep the hetrosexual institution around is a grandfather clause exemption while we try to get society back in some sense of order.

I have some catch up to play, plus at 9pm all blogs will be belonging to the white house press confrence ( well all of us political bloggers)

My post on gay marriage got talked up in a gay blog

Hokey smokes... well here it is... I'll be posting a response latter..... I am also glad my proof of the evil nature of Barney Bush was well recived as well ;-)

Dear people having sex

As I am not currently In a sexual relationship I can write this open leader

Dear People having sex;

Stop filming your sex acts, especially if you are famous. If you film your sex act you better be sure that you will be in a relationship for 50-60 years with this person and live in a burgler proof house or it will get out.

If you are famous, plan to become famous, plan to run for high government office, or be in any other position where large numbers of people would know who you are... just don't film your sex acts. It is more likely that yours will get out.

also, If you are going to have sex with some one who may possibly be underage or you do not have iron clad proof of their age do not film it.

This is for your own good.

I had blogger's block today

Nothing really happened in my personal life, In the news, at work, with any of my projects that really seemed worth while to talk about. I don't want to really just keep batting at the same windmills... because then I'd be in a rut and who wants to read a blog in the rut?

I talked my buddy Ken to join the cult of Haloscan

Ken who hasn't been quite as voluminous of a blogger as I have been has started in to track backs. Now I figured i'd send him his first track back so he could see the use of it. And hopefully more folks could go over and visit his blog so i can slowly pull in a sane voice to the left-of-center bloggers

cause god knows they need it

RINO Sightings.... IV

Over at World Wide Rant we see the fourth Rampage of the Raging RINO's

Good times abound man.

Though maybe I shouldn't have said crazy like tom cruise... the scientology secret police may be after me.

Anime Lover Congratulations! You scored 56%!

You're getting up there!! You may not have reached Fan Boy/Fan Girl status, but you've thrown yourself into this crazy anime world and now there's no escaping!! You're just going to fall further and further into the hole. You relish in finding new series to love and pass on to your friends. You look forward to attending cons and beginning or expanding the crazy collection your beginning to gather. Congrats!!

My test tracked 1 variable How you compared to other people your age and gender: You scored higher than 59% on Onigiri

Link: The Are You an Anime Geek? Test written by Beckachu3 on Ok Cupid

The real Bush's brain....

A new Gate has been revealed in the blogosphere and the reach of it is total in the plame case. But some people have uncovered new evidence



Here we see Barney at a press confrence denying that he informed Scot McClellan that Karl Rove had "nothing" to do with the Plame leak.

but



here we see Barney talking about the current administration spin on the plame case.

but the depth's of Barney's evil knows no bounds



here we see Barney taking the fire extinguishers out of the Press room at the white house



Here we see Barney and Ariel Sharon planning to divide the Middle East


We see Barney Here whispering to George his instructions. Because no man would want to admit his Presidency is being run by a dog.



His control of the President is so great, the President won't even drive his own truck. The dog does that to assure his evil power over the president



Here we see Barney discussing with the President how his secret plan, later known as Swift Boat Veterans for truth, is working.


Here we see the secret slave Barney was given to keep the US government out of Dafur.... truely the evil of this dog is boundless.



Here we See Barney laying down the law to the administration "We need more dead soldiers in Iraq... then we can up our contracts with Haliburton." I am surprised the daily Kos wasn't all over this one.



Here we see that Barney has even tried to extend his influence over all the g-8 nations... i wonder if barney is the "great beast" they talked about in the bible.



Here we see the extreme's the white house goes to.. to protect a simple "dog"



Here he is being guarded again.. just incase you thought the first photo was a coincidence.



Here is Barney sending emails from Karl Rove's computer to various reporters... and to a Kinko's in texas... so was Barney the secret force behind the CBS memo's...

this little dog is a great evil and we should all be careful... for he is the secret mastermind in the white house

Thoughts on Movie previews I saw

Dear Hollywood:

Please to be stopping with all the Sequals and remakes. I think Sky High was the only preview based on a remotely original idea in the batch I saw before Fantastic-4 ( though... In fairness i did miss some of the previews)

I don't mind Sequals.. belive me I don't. But it seems like just about every movie coming down the pike is going to have a roman numeral at the end.

This madness needs to stop.

Their never ever *EVER* should be a sequal to the transporter. The movie was nice and compact. Worse why is it being set in the US.

and, while I don't mind all the remakes try to make them like the remake of the bad news bears ( which looks totally awesome) or the bewitched movie ( which was a spoof on remakes).

thanks for your time,

I was listening to fox news sunday

The broadcast version and they had -I guess- a democrat member of congress on ( I got in on the show late) and she talked about the risk of "home grown" suicide bombers here in the states based on sleeper cells found here and especially in california.

When Al-Qaeda has been known to run dummy operations to confuse and distract authorities away from real operations I am not sure of her proof.

Even more test madness

I am 9% Hippie.

What? Am I a Republican? Why did I even bother taken this test?! I guess I’ll back to my George W. Bush fan club and tell them I just wasted 10 minutes of my life. At least I don’t stink, man.

Take the
Hippie Test
@ FualiDotCom

booya

Get your position here

F-4 Mini Review (spoilers Hoooooo)

All and All I'd say I got my money's worth out of this picture.

Better then Daredevil, Elektra, and HULK.

Slightly better then Punisher.

Not as good as the X or Spider-man films

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Ok.. the one little irritant, like a itchy scab on that hard to reach spot was Doctor Doom. They had Doom Steal tech from reed. Now, I could accept the giving doom lame powers... I could accept making doom a billionare rather then a dictator but Victor Von Doom would NEVER EVER EVER steal ideas from Reed Richards.

Second annoying bit about their Doctor Doom.... for a man who is the intellectual equal of Reed Richards in the comic books... Doom sure doesn't do anything Smart.

Third and final annoying thing: What makes doom cool as a villian is he has no powers and he wins more then he loses vs. the super folk

all and all good movie. Jessica Alba and the Guy who plays reed needed to act more like their charecters or people with a personality but it was money well spent