Java

And I'm not talking hot beverage. I'm taking my first class in computer programming. I guess if you're going to be a physicist, you have to know how to program a computer. Java is hard. My teacher tries, but I still don't know the difference between objects and classes. My teacher is really heavy on the theory of it, which I understand to a certain degree, but I wish he would just write a program and let us see how it works, so I can try to figure out what the hell is going on here. I really want to know how to do it. It interests me, but it's very frustrating when you don't understand the theory of it.

I had to stop listening to Air America radio for a few days. I was getting stressed out.

I did watch the O'Reilly and Dr. Phil interviews with George Bush. I saw a preview of the Kerry interview on Dr. Phil, and saw O'Reilly issue a challenge to Kerry to come on his show. If you didn't know already, Fox news is conservative. If Bush rarely talks to the White house press corps, but he'll talk to Bill O'Reilly, you know that is proof positive that Fox News is totally right-wing.

Oh well, I'm sick of politics. It's making my head spin. When you try to talk with people about it, you just go in circles. It's very frustrating, and you're never going to change anyone's mind. Unless they are undecided and have completely missed the last 4 years and have just now decided that they need to pay attention.

I'm going to Chicago on Oct 22. Flying. Yay.

Brandon's mom, uncle and aunt are coming Oct 8. We're going to get together for a "meeting of the two parents" dinner or something probably Friday night.

My star trek fanclub meeting is Saturday, and everyone seems to think it's falling apart. I hope it doesn't, but who knows.

My friend La Shana had her labor induced today, and she called me from the hospital earlier this evening. Her website? Zion Cathedral. She's having a boy whose name is Nicholas. Good luck!

My cousins Michael and Tracy and Michael's wife Melanie came to visit this last weekend. She's very pregnant, and is set to have a baby girl in a couple of weeks time.

I, however, am not planning on having children, much to the dissapointment of my mother. :D

Brandon and I are going to start the wedding plans as soon as we get back from Chicago. I will keep everyone posted.

Links are fun!

• Colin Powell on connections between 9-11 and Iraq
  
• Rolling Stone article on Bill O'Reilly
  
• Freeway Blogger: Free Speech! Use it or lose it!
  

Pentagon

So, after taking a look around, I found this:

CLICK HERE

The only thing is that it doesn't explain about the amazing pentalawn. There were several cameras on the pentagon. It's (supposed) to be the most secured building in the country. Part of having a secure building is having surviellence cameras. You're telling me that there is only one camera trained on the front of the pentagon? We've seen those two other planes striking the WTC 8 billion times. You'd think the media would be all over getting that footage of the plane hitting the pentagon. All that's been released from the Pentagon is 5 frames of footage, crappy footage at that. Maybe the government doesn't want people to know where they have cameras installed around the pentagon. Then why don't they tell people that instead of letting rumors run wild. Honesty and government just don't mix. Never have, never will.

A lighter note...

I've already bought my wedding dress... It was the first one I tried on. It was the only one I tried on. I fell in love with it, and it was on sale, so I couldn't resist. I pick it up tomorrow. Check it out here if you want.

Brandon and I are also having a party, sort of an engagement party on Saturday at my friend Shahnon's house. She and her man renovated their whole kitchen/living room/dining room themselves. They have a dining room table that was ordered directly from Thailand and took like 8 months to get. It is an original, crafted specifically for her. I can't wait to get pictures of this whole thing up here so you can see why I'm so psyched just to spend time there. (Besides the fact that Shahnon and Rick rock.)

My HR director just asked me what the hours are for cash control. On a down note: the local psychic here at STTE has predicted another mass lay-off coming soon. I don't think they can lay me off while Shana is out on leave, but who knows. Also, about the psychic: she is never wrong. I know of 5 personal stories where she was exactly right.

I really don't like SprintPCS.

I do really like shopping for stationary though. :D

What a Dick

You know who I'm talking about! Cheney of course! He really is a Dick, he just proved it. From the NY Times (and I'm sure every single other paper out there)

``It's absolutely essential that eight weeks from today, on Nov. 2, we make the right choice, because if we make the wrong choice then the danger is that we'll get hit again and we'll be hit in a way that will be devastating from the standpoint of the United States,'' Cheney told supporters at a town-hall meeting.


That is what they've been trying to say to the American public for months now. I'm amazed that he was just so, honest. That is really how he feels. Of course, it's not based on anything. Attacking Iraq did not make the world safer. It pissed off a whole bunch of people, and has bred a whole new generation of terrorists. They don't "hate us because of our freedom", they hate us because our stupid leaders march into their country, bomb the hell out of it, then don't cut them in for the reconstruction contracts. They are also pissed off because they all know that we went there because of the oil, and they know that the US is totally dependent on Middle East Oil, and wants to play favorites with certain countries (Saudi Arabia) and wants to steal from other countries (Iraq). The United States has 150,000 troops there. Still. Didn't we transfer power a couple of months ago? The death toll is over 1000.

Considering John Kerry's plan for Iraq and the war on terror is not all that different from Bush's, how can Cheney say that there will be a terrorist attack if "the wrong choice" for president is elected? Is he going to make sure that happens? SCARY. Yes, I'm going there. That Dick has connections.

This whole election is crazy. No one is saying the truth, not the media, not the candidates... NO ONE. How many people are really going to sit there and research every little thing that everyone says just to make sure it's true or half-true? Half the people in this country don't even vote, nevermind actually getting involved. It's overwhelming. I've tried to research, but it gets frustrating. So people rely on the nightly news.

Please, for god's sake, don't watch FOX NEWS. All that channel is is a bunch of republicans sitting around patting each other on the back and drinking their kool-aid. The bad thing is, they say that they're "Fair and balanced." I listen to Air America Radio which is a liberal talk station, but they certainly don't claim to be "Fair and Balanced." They are liberals. They think that they're point of view is right and they are not afraid to stand up for it. FOX NEWS likes to say they are "Fair and Balanced" so that they can try to say that their extremely right-wing views are views that the mainstream of America has and should have, then they try to present it as mainstream.

I've been trying to get the comments function on this damn blog to work, so that if anyone is out there actually reading this, you can tell me I'm a dumb bitch, or totally agree with me outloud.

COMMENTS!!!!!!!!!!!!111

If you want to comment, all you have to do is click on the time at the bottom of the post. The whole post will open in its own window, then scroll to the bottom and comment away! WHEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!

Holy 9/11 rant batman!

I ended up watching a 2 hour special on A&E about the amateur filmmakers that had decided to capture different aspects of 9/11.

Creepy:

• Seeing a guy jump to his death.
  
• Watching a girl in Brooklyn take a home video of the WTC burning, and having various pieces of debris fall on her about 20 minutes after the attack. She actually picked up papers and showed them to the camera. There was a financial statement, and some other document.
  
• Watching people throw-up after inhaling all the dust.
  
• Seeing the people walking around like zombies, covered in white dust, completely dazed and confused.
  

Inspiring:

• Watching two people scream at each other. They both were yelling about having to pick body parts out of the WTC the day before, and they concluded that they just needed a way to process the horrors that they witnessed. They then hugged, as did the rest of the crowd that was also arguing. (I think this took place in Union Square.)
  
• Seeing the people of New York stand on the road where all the emergency people and Ground Zero workers were going back and forth, and cheering them on.
  
• A group of about 30 people just joined hands the day after, in downtown New York and started singing 'Amazing Grace'
  
• People were just stopping and talking to each other, and this little sparrow, was just walking right in the middle of their little group. When one of the men squatted down to try to touch it, it barely moved away from his hand. It was just in shock. They came to the conclusion that the bird also needed their little circle in order to absorb what had just happened.
  
• Seeing the candle light vigil in Union Square.
  
• Watching them light the two tower lights on March 11, 2002 as a tribute to the WTC.
  

Comforting:

• Knowing that we all felt the same way that day.
  
• Knowing that we as humans all fell into our roles as concerned citizens and do-gooders without even thinking twice about it. Even McDonalds donated food for the cause.
  

I was wondering why 9/11 was so prominent in my mind. DUH. Next week is the three year aniv. That should really be my last rant about that.

School

School started last week. I'm taking a computer programming class and an American History class. They are both online classes, so no real interaction or anything. Online classes don't feel real. Oh well, 6 more credits this semester, 6 next semester, then its time for NAU!

Magic Bullet

So, now I have to go look at official pictures of the pentagon right after the impact on 9/11, and I have to see if there were any plane parts left anywhere because this video freaked me out. Here, have a look.

Pentagon Happenings

I almost forgot one of the main reasons that I'm not voting for Bush. Despite what the supposedly "neutral" commission said, I think that the government knew about 9/11 before it happened, and let it happen for financial/political reasons. There, call me a nutjob, I don't care. That's what I think. There's too many coincidences like...

The Coincidence Theorist's Guide to 9/11

http://rigorousintuition.blogspot.com/

Sunday, August 15, 2004

AUTHOR'S NOTE: I posted an earlier version of this last week at Democratic Underground. I've added a number of more entries, and links for all.

Happy coincidenting!

That governments have permitted terrorist acts against their own people, and have even themselves been perpetrators in order to find strategic advantage is quite likely true, but this is the United States we're talking about.

That intelligence agencies, financiers, terrorists and narco-criminals have a long history together is well established, but the Nugan Hand Bank, BCCI, Banco Ambrosiano, the P2 Lodge, the CIA/Mafia anti-Castro/Kennedy alliance, Iran/Contra and the rest were a long time ago, so there’s no need to rehash all that. That was then, this is now!

That Jonathan Bush’s Riggs Bank has been found guilty of laundering terrorist funds and fined a US-record $25 million must embarrass his nephew George, but it's still no justification for leaping to paranoid conclusions.

That George Bush's brother Marvin sat on the board of the Kuwaiti-owned company which provided electronic security to the World Trade Centre, Dulles Airport and United Airlines means nothing more than you must admit those Bush boys have done alright for themselves.

That George Bush found success as a businessman only after the investment of Osama’s brother Salem and reputed al Qaeda financier Khalid bin Mahfouz is just one of those things - one of those crazy things.

That Osama bin Laden is known to have been an asset of US foreign policy in no way implies he still is.

That al Qaeda was active in the Balkan conflict, fighting on the same side as the US as recently as 1999, while the US protected its cells, is merely one of history's little aberrations.

The claims of Michael Springman, State Department veteran of the Jeddah visa bureau, that the CIA ran the office and issued visas to al Qaeda members so they could receive training in the United States, sound like the sour grapes of someone who was fired for making such wild accusations.

That one of George Bush's first acts as President, in January 2001, was to end the two-year deployment of attack submarines which were positioned within striking distance of al Qaeda's Afghanistan camps, even as the group's guilt for the Cole bombing was established, proves that a transition from one administration to the next is never an easy task.

That so many influential figures in and close to the Bush White House had expressed, just a year before the attacks, the need for a "new Pearl Harbor" before their militarist ambitions could be fulfilled, demonstrates nothing more than the accidental virtue of being in the right place at the right time.

That the company PTECH, founded by a Saudi financier placed on America’s Terrorist Watch List in October 2001, had access to the FAA’s entire computer system for two years before the 9/11 attack, means he must not have been such a threat after all.

That whistleblower Indira Singh was told to keep her mouth shut and forget what she learned when she took her concerns about PTECH to her employers and federal authorities, suggests she lacked the big picture. And that the Chief Auditor for JP Morgan Chase told Singh repeatedly, as she answered questions about who supplied her with what information, that "that person should be killed," suggests he should take an anger management seminar.

That on May 8, 2001, Dick Cheney took upon himself the job of co-ordinating a response to domestic terror attacks even as he was crafting the administration’s energy policy which bore implications for America's military, circumventing the established infrastructure and ignoring the recommendations of the Hart-Rudman report, merely shows the VP to be someone who finds it hard to delegate.

That the standing order which covered the shooting down of hijacked aircraft was altered on June 1, 2001, taking discretion away from field commanders and placing it solely in the hands of the Secretary of Defense, is simply poor planning and unfortunate timing. Fortunately the error has been corrected, as the order was rescinded shortly after 9/11.

That in the weeks before 9/11, FBI agent Colleen Rowley found her investigation of Zacarias Moussaoui so perversely thwarted that her colleagues joked that bin Laden had a mole at the FBI, proves the stress-relieving virtue of humour in the workplace.

That Dave Frasca of the FBI’s Radical Fundamentalist Unit received a promotion after quashing multiple, urgent requests for investigations into al Qaeda assets training at flight schools in the summer of 2001 does appear on the surface odd, but undoubtedly there's a good reason for it, quite possibly classified.

That FBI informant Randy Glass, working an undercover sting, was told by Pakistani intelligence operatives that the World Trade Center towers were coming down, and that his repeated warnings which continued until weeks before the attacks, including the mention of planes used as weapons, were ignored by federal authorities, is simply one of the many "What Ifs" of that tragic day.

That over the summer of 2001 Washington received many urgent, senior-level warnings from foreign intelligence agencies and governments - including those of Germany, France, Great Britain, Russia, Egypt, Israel, Morocco, Afghanistan and others - of impending terror attacks using hijacked aircraft and did nothing, demonstrates the pressing need for a new Intelligence Czar.

That John Ashcroft stopped flying commercial aircraft in July 2001 on account of security considerations had nothing to do with warnings regarding September 11, because he said so to the 9/11 Commission.

That former lead counsel for the House David Schippers says he’d taken to John Ashcroft’s office specific warnings he’d learned from FBI agents in New York of an impending attack – even naming the proposed dates, names of the hijackers and the targets – and that the investigations had been stymied and the agents threatened, proves nothing but David Schipper’s pathetic need for attention.

That Garth Nicolson received two warnings from contacts in the intelligence community and one from a North African head of state, which included specific site, date and source of the attacks, and passed the information to the Defense Department and the National Security Council to evidently no effect, clearly amounts to nothing, since virtually nobody has ever heard of him.

That in the months prior to September 11, self-described US intelligence operative Delmart Vreeland sought, from a Toronto jail cell, to get US and Canadian authorities to heed his warning of his accidental discovery of impending catastrophic attacks is worthless, since Vreeland was a dubious character, notwithstanding the fact that many of his claims have since been proven true.

That FBI Special Investigator Robert Wright claims that agents assigned to intelligence operations actually protect terrorists from investigation and prosecution, that the FBI shut down his probe into terrorist training camps, and that he was removed from a money-laundering case that had a direct link to terrorism, sounds like yet more sour grapes from a disgruntled employee.

That George Bush had plans to invade Afghanistan on his desk before 9/11 demonstrates only the value of being prepared.

The suggestion that securing a pipeline across Afghanistan figured into the White House’s calculations is as ludicrous as the assertion that oil played a part in determining war in Iraq.

That Afghanistan is once again the world’s principal heroin producer is an unfortunate reality, but to claim the CIA is still actively involved in the narcotics trade is to presume bad faith on the part of the agency.

Mahmood Ahmed, chief of Pakistan’s ISI, must not have authorized an al Qaeda payment of $100,000 to Mohammed Atta days before the attacks, and was not meeting with senior Washington officials over the week of 9/11, because I didn’t read anything about him in the official report.

That Porter Goss met with Ahmed the morning of September 11 in his capacity as Chairman of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence has no bearing whatsoever upon his recent selection by the White House to head the Central Intelligence Agency.

That Goss's congressional seat encompasses the 9/11 hijackers' Florida base of operation, including their flight schools, is precisely the kind of meaningless factoid a conspiracy theorist would bring up.

It's true that George HW Bush and Dick Cheney spent the evening of September 10 alone in the Oval Office, but what's wrong with old colleagues catching up? And it's true that George HW Bush and Shafig bin Laden, Osama's brother, spent the morning of September 11 together at a board meeting of the Carlyle Group, but the bin Ladens are a big family.

That FEMA arrived in New York on Sept 10 to prepare for a scheduled biowarfare drill, and had a triage centre ready to go that was larger and better equipped than the one that was lost in the collapse of WTC 7, was a lucky twist of fate.

Newsweek’s report that senior Pentagon officials cancelled flights on Sept 10 for the following day on account of security concerns is only newsworthy because of what happened the following morning.

That George Bush's telephone logs for September 11 do not exist should surprise no one, given the confusion of the day.

That Mohamed Atta attended the International Officer's School at Maxwell Air Force Base, that Abdulaziz Alomari attended Brooks Air Force Base Aerospace Medical School, that Saeed Alghamdi attended the Defense Language Institute in Monterey merely shows it is a small world, after all.

That Lt Col Steve Butler, Vice Chancellor for student affairs of the Defense Language Institute during Alghamdi's terms, was disciplined, removed from his post and threatened with court martial when he wrote "Bush knew of the impending attacks on America. He did nothing to warn the American people because he needed this war on terrorism. What is...contemptible is the President of the United States not telling the American people what he knows for political gain," is the least that should have happened for such disrespect shown his Commander in Chief.

That Mohammed Atta dressed like a Mafioso, had a stripper girlfriend, smuggled drugs, was already a licensed pilot when he entered the US, enjoyed pork chops, drank to excess and did cocaine, was closer to Europeans than Arabs in Florida, and included the names of defence contractors on his email list, proves how dangerous the radical fundamentalist Muslim can be.

That 43 lbs of heroin was found on board the Lear Jet owned by Wally Hilliard, the owner of Atta’s flight school, just three weeks after Atta enrolled – the biggest seizure ever in Central Florida – was just bad luck. That Hilliard was not charged shows how specious the claims for conspiracy truly are.

That Hilliard’s plane had made 30-round trips to Venezuela with the same passengers who always paid cash, that the plane had been supplied by a pair of drug smugglers who had also outfitted CIA drug runner Barry Seal, and that 9/11 commissioner Richard ben-Veniste had been Seal’s attorney before Seal’s murder, shows nothing but the lengths to which conspiracists will go to draw sinister conclusions.

Reports of insider trading on 9/11 are false, because the SEC investigated and found only respectable investors who will remain nameless involved, and no terrorists, so the windfall profit-taking was merely, as ever, coincidental.

That heightened security for the World Trade Centre was lifted immediately prior to the attacks illustrates that it always happens when you least expect it.

That Hani Hanjour, the pilot of Flight 77, was so incompetent he could not fly a Cessna in August, but in September managed to fly a 767 at excessive speed into a spiraling, 270-degree descent and a level impact of the first floor of the Pentagon, on the only side that was virtually empty and had been hardened to withstand a terrorist attack, merely demonstrates that people can do almost anything once they set their minds to it.

That none of the flight data recorders were said to be recoverable even though they were located in the tail sections, and that until 9/11, no solid-state recorder in a catastrophic crash had been unrecoverable, shows how there's a first time for everything.

That Mohammed Atta left a uniform, a will, a Koran, his driver's license and a "how to fly planes" video in his rental car at the airport means he had other things on his mind.

The mention of Israelis with links to military-intelligence having been arrested on Sept 11 videotaping and celebrating the attacks, of an Israeli espionage ring surveiling DEA and defense installations and trailing the hijackers, and of a warning of impending attacks delivered to the Israeli company Odigo two hours before the first plane hit, does not deserve a response. That the stories also appeared in publications such as Ha'aretz and Forward is a sad display of self-hatred among certain elements of the Israeli media.

That multiple military wargames and simulations were underway the morning of 9/11 – one simulating the crash of a plane into a building; another, a live-fly simulation of multiple hijackings – and took many interceptors away from the eastern seaboard and confused field commanders as to which was a real hijacked aircraft and which was a hoax, was a bizarre coincidence, but no less a coincidence.

That the National Military Command Center ops director asked a rookie substitute to stand his watch at 8:30 am on Sept. 11 is nothing more than bad timing.

That a recording made Sept 11 of air traffic controllers’ describing what they had witnessed, was destroyed by an FAA official who crushed it in his hand, cut the tape into little pieces and dropped them in different trash cans around the building, is something no doubt that overzealous official wishes he could undo.

That the FBI knew precisely which Florida flight schools to descend upon hours after the attacks should make every American feel safer knowing their federal agents are on the ball.

That a former flight school executive believes the hijackers were "double agents," and says about Atta and associates, "Early on I gleaned that these guys had government protection. They were let into this country for a specific purpose," and was visited by the FBI just four hours after the attacks to intimidate him into silence, proves he's an unreliable witness, for the simple reason there is no conspiracy.

That Jeb Bush was on board an aircraft that removed flight school records to Washington in the middle of the night on Sept 12th demonstrates how seriously the governor takes the issue of national security.

To insinuate evil motive from the mercy flights of bin Laden family members and Saudi royals after 9/11 shows the sickness of the conspiratorial mindset.

Le Figaro’s report in October 2001, known to have originated with French intelligence, that the CIA met Osama bin Laden in a Dubai hospital in July 2001, proves again the perfidy of the French.

That the tape in which bin Laden claims responsibility for the attacks was released by the State Department after having been found providentially by US forces in Afghanistan, and depicts a fattened Osama with a broader face and a flatter nose, proves Osama, and Osama alone, masterminded 9/11.

That at the battle of Tora Bora, where bin Laden was surrounded on three sides, Special Forces received no order to advance and capture him and were forced to stand and watch as two Russian-made helicopters flew into the area where bin Laden was believed hiding, loaded up passengers and returned to Pakistan, demonstrates how confusing the modern battlefield can be.

That upon returning to Fort Bragg from Tora Bora, the same Special Operations troops who had been stood down from capturing bin Laden, suffered a unusual spree of murder/suicides, is nothing more than a series of senseless tragedies.

Reports that bin Laden is currently receiving periodic dialysis treatment in a Pakistani medical hospital are simply too incredible to be true.

That the White House went on Cipro September 11 shows the foresightedness of America’s emergency response.

That the anthrax was mailed to perceived liberal media and the Democratic leadership demonstrates only the perversity of the terrorist psyche.

That the anthrax attacks appeared to silence opponents of the Patriot Act shows only that appearances can be deceiving.

That the Ames-strain anthrax was found to have originated at Fort Detrick, and was beyond the capability of all but a few labs to refine, underscores the importance of allowing the investigation to continue without the distraction of absurd conspiracy theories.

That Republican guru Grover Norquist has been found to have aided financiers and supporters of Islamic terror to gain access to the Bush White House, and is a founder of the Islamic Institute, which the Treasury Department believes to be a source of funding for al Qaeda, suggests Norquist is at worst, naive, and at best, needs a wider circle of friends.

That the Department of Justice consistently chooses to see accused 9/11 plotters go free rather than permit the courtroom testimony of al Qaeda leaders in American custody looks bad, but only because we don't have all the facts.

That the White House balked at any inquiry into the events of 9/11, then starved it of funds and stonewalled it, was unfortunate, but since the commission didn't find for conspiracy it's all a non issue anyway.

That the 9/11 commission's executive director and "gatekeeper," Philip Zelikow, was so closely involved in the events under investigation that he testified before the the commission as part of the inquiry, shows only an apparent conflict of interest.

That commission chair Thomas Kean is, like George Bush, a Texas oil executive who had business dealings with reputed al Qaeda financier Khalid bin Mafouz, suggests Texas is smaller than they say it is.

That co-chair Lee Hamilton has a history as a Bush family "fixer," including clearing Bush Sr of the claims arising from the 1980 "October Surprise", is of no concern, since only conspiracists believe there was such a thing as an October Surprise.

That FBI whistleblower Sibel Edmonds accuses the agency of intentionally fudging specific pre-9/11 warnings and harboring a foreign espionage ring in its translation department, and claims she witnessed evidence of the semi-official infrastructure of money-laundering and narcotics trade behind the attacks, is of no account, since John Ashcroft has gagged her with the rare invocation of "State Secrets Privilege," and retroactively classified her public testimony. For the sake of national security, let us speak no more of her.

That, when commenting on Edmond's case, Daniel Ellsberg remarked that Ashcroft could go to prison for his part in a cover-up, suggests Ellsberg is giving comfort to the terrorists, and could, if he doesn't wise up, find himself declared an enemy combatant.

I could go on. And on and on. But I trust you get the point. Which is simply this: there are no secrets, an American government would never accept civilian casualties for geostrategic gain, and conspiracies are for the weak-minded and gullible.

- Posted by Jeff at 5:15 PM

Now, If you managed to sit through all that, good for you. I had to read it in two parts because I was just totally blown away.

Calling all FRIENDS AND FAMILY

No really. I need all y'all addresses up in heer. Shizzle my nizzle and all that crap. Don't worry, I won't be sending out invitations for the wedding for another 3 or four months or so, so I thought I'd really start nagging ya'll right now.

LOVE YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :D :D :D :D :D

Calling all Friends!

My stupid handheld ran completly out of power (which had nothing to do with it's stupid owner ;) ) and I need people's addresses and phone numbers. Please send to

deeisanerd@yahoo.com

Especially you, TARA! I tried to send you an email, and your freakin email isn't working. I totally lost your number, and I hate to call your parents to ask for it. CHRISTA, are you out there?! I know that LENAI writes to me sometimes, but I need your physical address.

The thing that sucks is that I didn't have a paper/disk back-up of anyone's address, thinking that my amazing Compaq PC could never fail me (which again, has nothing to do with the owner)

Bush's Speech

So, I watched it from about 7:45pm on (I was at the gym) and I really think that he thinks he's doing the right thing for the country. He really believes that what he is saying is actually happening. If what he was saying was actually happening (IE: Community Colleges/pell-grants/more money/more quality jobs/no lay-offs/easier to handle health care) I would be like everyone of those people in the audience, waving my "W" sign and proudly displaying my "flip-flops." I can't say that it's been easier for me to get money for school (I was not given a pell grant, but recieved a scholarship based on my grades); If I lost my job at Star Trek (which very well might happen, that whole buzz is starting again) I would not be able to get another job for more than 9 or 10 bucks an hour (which most people can't really live on $18,720 a year); My stupid birth control is not covered by my insurance. It's the generic brand of Ortho-tri-cyclen. The only reason I switched to the generic brand was because when I was working at The Aladdin (which is now taken over by Planet Hollywood) they would charge you more for the brand-name than they would for the generic. Now that I've switched plans, my new plan covers the brand-name, but not the generic. IS THAT EASIER!? The doctor said that changing birth control, even going from generic to brand-name, can cause some side-effects. HOW IS THAT MAKING MY LIFE EASIER!!! These drug companies/ insurance companies make so much friggin money, and they can't just get together and put two and two together?!!! Don't they realize in this economy, people are changing jobs all the time, and will end up having different health plans, and for those people that are on maintenence drugs, that it's going to screw up their bodies if they have to keep changing the prescriptions because of some corporate deal between the drug and insurance companies?!!! IS THAT RIGHT?!!! MAN!!! NOW I'M PISSED OFF!!! I was so pissed off a couple of days ago that I actually went to www.senate.gov and looked up the voting records for the senate MYSELF. Yes, I actually went to the source and looked up all the important issues (IMHO) to see how John Kerry ACTUALLY VOTED. I didn't rely on "Swift boat veterans for truth" or "The democratic national committee" I went to the website and FOUND OUT FOR MYSELF! YAY FOR ME! WHEEE!!!

Now, turn off your TV please, and if you want to figure out what's really going on here, go to the internet, find official sources, and read. If you can cast your vote for George Bush and still sleep at night after all that you've read, well, it's your dreams you'll have to deal with. I'm being pretty dramatic hey? Or you could just totally ignore me, and just watch the political ads on TV and FOX NEWS, MSNBC, CNN, and be totally confused like I was. Either that, or be totally polarized one way or the other. John Kerry is not perfect, but it comes down to who can do less damage while they're in office for the next four years.