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Well, first of all, I’m on the record as being pro-military and in insisting that military matters and international affairs were neglected throughout the period of the Clinton administration — which partly led to the present dilemma. The first attack on the World Trade Center in 1993 should have been a wake-up call for everyone.

“Donít kid yourself that Saddam might really have nothing to hide. Of course he does.”

(you’ll need a nytimes registration to access the first two. it’s free.)

“The North Korean nuclear crisis is far more perilous than many people realize.”

“…our current approach ó using hugely expensive rockets to launch a handful of people into space, where they have nothing much to do ó is a dead end. “

When the Challenger blew up, I was watching with the rest of the school on television. They sent us home and I cried all the way as I walked through the woods to my house. I had dreamt, like lots of kids, of growing up to be an astronaut and traveling to space. Space Camp is probably my favorite movie of all time. Today I better understand the risks involved with going to space. And so did the astronauts. It’s pretty amazing, given the technology of the space shuttle, (> 20 years old) and just pure number of things that could go wrong with spaceflight, that this is only the third time NASA has lost astronauts due to catastrophe. But still, they were up there pushing us forward, making progress. The media down here keeps dragging us back to a comfortable place where everything is okay. Unfortunately, everything is not okay. We’re about to go to war with two countries, our personal freedoms are being hijacked. And what can I do about it? I sit here and work everyday, trying to make money to pay for the house, the car. Buy food. And guess what? I am a happy person. Are Americans just happily ignorant of what’s really going on in the world? Is that why almost no one is speaking up? Is that why less than half of us vote?

Crap I have no idea. Maybe one of these days, one of these posts will actually make sense.

“America Grieves. America Fights Back. America Cries. America Recovers. America: What Will Happen Next? America: Find the Bastards Responsible!”

(BTW Dad- I posted this at lunch)

By the way, there were two quotes in the last post, however, Safari and IE both seem to not want to use my quote tag, and in Chimera, the quote works, but the rest of the site is screwed up. (Looks pretty funky in IE as well)

I’ve got some work to do on it..

We finally got some snow up here, and I’m much happier because of it. One of the great things about Minnesota is the snow, and the cold. Take away the snow, and the cold instantly becomes your nemesis. Times you could spend trudging through the snow on snowshoes become hours inside looking at the bleak brown landscape. Skiing on man-made snow overlooking the brown valley just doesn’t have the same feeling as looking around at snow covered trees while you schuss down the slopes.

Well, anyways… now if we could just get a litte more snow. 🙂

I wore brown socks with my black pants and shoes today. I’m the fashion master!

We watched The Good Girl last night. It was an interesting movie, some good humor in there, and it was also pretty intense and dark. Definately not a feel good type movie. I’d say 4 out of 5 stars.

Wow there was a flurry of activity on the site yesterday as I experimented with reporting a ‘live’ event. It was fun for me, but I can see some ways to improve the layout of the site. I’ll work on that when I have more time.

I can’t wait to download some of the new updates to the iApps and start playing around.

I did download safari, and it is quite nice. By the time it is 1.0, it should be very nice. Hopefully they’ll add tabbed browsing.