tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-98972912024-03-13T21:04:27.022-07:00sonicfrog blogSonicfrog = pool guy, hack musician, soon to be teacher, and linux nut since RH 7.0. Definitely NOT a lawyer.sonicfroghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17243418673004541047noreply@blogger.comBlogger250125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9897291.post-37165536362582001032010-01-18T12:50:00.000-08:002010-01-18T13:01:58.828-08:00teatkkk<br />
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Move Ahead....<a href="http://sonicfrog.net/">It's Not Too Late..... </a>sonicfroghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17243418673004541047noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9897291.post-1167461431238010992006-12-29T22:46:00.000-08:002006-12-29T22:50:31.260-08:00Well It's True That In My Manners....<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger/1890/741/1600/311553/baps_thumb.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger/1890/741/400/522099/baps_thumb.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br />....<a href="http://www.rathergood.com/baps/">there's been something of a laps</a>....<br /><br /><br />PS. I started the New Year with one of these, so it is only fitting I close with one too!<br /><br />PPS. The blog will get a major upgrade within the next few days. Stay tuned!sonicfroghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17243418673004541047noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9897291.post-1167416041460766662006-12-29T09:50:00.000-08:002010-01-18T12:55:17.295-08:00Ewdards For Prez - Round Two.<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger/1890/741/1600/719479/eddy.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger/1890/741/400/193868/eddy.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><br /><br /></span>I still think the Democratic primary nomination is <a href="http://sonicfrog.blogspot.com/2006/06/my-prediction-for-2008-presidencial.html">Gore's</a>, if he decides to have another crack at it. What I think is interesting about John Edwards digging his way into the race is not the man himself, but the mindset of people who are latching on to his candidacy and functioning as his campaign cheerleaders. I drive around a lot which affords me the luxury of channel surfing the radio. I sometimes listen to Air America to get a glimpse of the left perspective. The far left contingent, Randi Rhoads, Rachiel Maddows (*sp*) are enamored with him, and have been talking up his candidacy for months. What I don't get is why, to them, Edwards is so much better a candidate than Obama Barrack. Lets compare.<br /><br /><more><br /><br />Edwards is young-ish, but Obama is the genuine article as far as youth goes. They are both one-term senators, but unlike Edwards, who wasn't polling well in his district and didn't seek a second term, and lost big in his party's presidential primaries, Obama is a politician on the rise who seems poised to be a multi-term senator if he chooses. Though his national political career is short, Edwards, through his attachment to Kerry, already comes off as part of the establishment, while Obama is indeed a fresh face. They both hold law degrees, but, unlike Edwards, Obama doesn't champion himself as a lawyer. I know that at least 2/3 of the ex-Presidents had been lawyers, but few of them, to the best of my knowledge, had used their lawyer status as a selling point. (Jeffeson came to hate the practice during his career as one). You know the old saying - everyone hates lawyers... until they need one! My question is this: How is Edwards going to make the case that we need one as President?<br /><br />PS. Though it has much lower ratings, and they often come off as complete loons, I find Pacifica Radio broadcasts to be much more interesting and compelling radio fare than most of the Air Americas lineup, which comes across as nothing but bitter partisans who copy and employ the worst techniques commonly used by Rush to envoke emotional responses.<br /><br />PPS. At first glance I thought the shirt read "Edwards is God" and immediately I wondered if Eric Clapton would sue.<br /><br />Pseudo Hat Tip: <a href="http://althouse.blogspot.com/2006/12/edwards.html#comments">Althouse</a>, who lately seems to be taking up quite a bit of my time.sonicfroghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17243418673004541047noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9897291.post-1167375104344718082006-12-28T22:52:00.000-08:002006-12-28T22:54:39.886-08:00If You Can Say It - You're A better Man Than I!<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger/1890/741/1600/150248/666-uk.gif"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger/1890/741/320/553562/666-uk.png" border="0" alt="" /></a><br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Hexakosioihexekontahexaphobiacs</span>! <br /><br />It's the term for people who fear the number 666. <br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Question:</span> What is the term for people who invent words that are unpronounceable?<br /><br />Hat Tip: <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/magazinemonitor/index.html#a007948">BBC News</a> via <a href="http://science.slashdot.org/science/06/12/28/2030231.shtml">Slashdot</a>.sonicfroghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17243418673004541047noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9897291.post-1166813961937393902006-12-28T22:48:00.000-08:002006-12-28T22:21:36.610-08:00Duke Rape Charges Dropped!<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://msnbcmedia1.msn.com/j/msnbc/Components/Video/061222/n_most_dukecharges_061222.300w.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px;" src="http://msnbcmedia1.msn.com/j/msnbc/Components/Video/061222/n_most_dukecharges_061222.300w.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a><br /><br />But he is still going to try and get the students for kidnapping and sexual offense charges. From the <a href="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16327270/">MSNBC</a> article:<br /><br /><blockquote>“It’s highly coincidental,” said defense attorney Joseph Cheshire, that the charges are being dropped a week after the director of a private DNA testing lab acknowledged that he initially, with Nifong’s knowledge, withheld from the defense test results showing none of the players’ DNA was found on or in the accuser’s body.</blockquote><br /><br />This prosecutor, having changed his story more times than the accuser, now has less credibility than she does in the case. How can this case still be judicated, how can he still be working as a prosecutor after this.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">UPDATE!!!</span> Well, <a href="http://http://apnews.myway.com/article/20061229/D8MA6Q780.html">that didn't take long</a>. The North Carolina Bar has been looking into this since April. Good for them.<br /><br />PS. Yes this was posted a week or so ago, but if I update it but don't move it up, no one will see the update. It's my blog and I can do what I want here.sonicfroghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17243418673004541047noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9897291.post-1167332669580370792006-12-28T10:58:00.000-08:002006-12-28T22:13:00.566-08:00God Help Me!!!<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger/1890/741/1600/30975/lovecamp7.gif"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger/1890/741/400/974841/lovecamp7.png" border="0" alt="" /></a><br /><br /><br />(Link Is Probably NSFW) I am horrifiied that I feel compelled to see <a href="http://www.stomptokyo.com/badmoviereport/reviews/L/lovecamp7.html">THIS MOVIE</a>!!!sonicfroghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17243418673004541047noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9897291.post-1167158241479356162006-12-26T09:51:00.000-08:002006-12-27T06:19:11.116-08:00My Dad and the Red GuitarAnyone who knows my family knows how much music has been intertwined into our little corner of the social quilt. Back in the ancient period classified as the 1970's BCD (Before Compact Disks), the siblings and I would sit around the table listening to our favorite LP's, singing and harmonize along with our favorite artists: Simon and Garfunkel, The Kingston Trio, Chad Mitchell Trio, Peter Paul and Mary, and The Eagles, just to name a few. Debbie sang in the Cal Poly San Luis Obisbo choir. Brenda, Jeff, and, later, Rob learned to play guitar. Mary Beth and I were in grade school and high school band together, MB playing trombone and clarinet, and I played baritone horn (we both quit because we hated the high school band teacher; we thought he wasn't very good at his job - hey, we were 16'ish and knew everything). Jeff, Rob and I are, or have been, in various bands for the last twenty years or so. So many memories of Mom learning to play piano. Debbie, Brenda, and Jeff still play the beast. Even I have tickled the keys at one time or another. <br /><br />And then there is Dad. I would love to say that Dad was an orchestra conductor or a <a href="http://thewreckroom.blogspot.com/2005/04/april-21-1966.html">trombone player</a>, or played the sax in a rock or swing band, but as far as I know, he didn't. There is only one musical instrument that comes to mind when I think of my father - a red, hollow body, electric guitar. I don't know what brand it was or if it was a collectors item; for all I know, it was an ordinary guitar. And I don't remember ever seeing him play the thing, and don't know if he ever did or could. It is not the playing of the instrument that brings it to mind, but more the departure of the thing that makes it so special. He sold it at the neighbors garage sale in or around 1973. I haven't a clue how much money he got for it or what it was actually worth, I just remember that it was a pretty red guitar. <br /><br />So why is that red guitar so important? I'll explain.<br /><br />Dad loved music too. He loved those groups we used to sing to, and when we would sing to those records, dad was there singing along, or more often just listening to the voices of his children. He would sing songs to us at bedtime when we were little kids. One favorite was <a href="http://www.kididdles.com/lyrics/f032.html">"The Fox"</a>, another was a pirate shanty called <a href="http://www.contemplator.com/sea/edlight.html">"The Keeper of the Eddiestone Light"</a>. Dad was always curious about or bands, and was proud of his musician sons and daughters. But he never played. He never had time, what with raising six kids and all. I didn't think much about the guitar at the time, but later it became a symbol of sacrifice, a concept you only really understand when you become an adult. I never asked him about the guitar or why he sold it, but it came to represent the choices we make in life, to give up one thing for something more important - family.<br /><br />One the day of his passing, during the last fading hours of his life, Debbie, Mary Beth and I sat in Dad's hospice room for some time, singing and harmonizing to songs from the first two Simon and Garfunkel albums. MB and I even included made up and joke lyrics - "fools said I you do not know, silence like a <span style="font-style:italic;">casserole</span> (instead of <span style="font-style:italic;">cancer grows</span>)", "and words, like silent raindrops fell, <span style="font-style:italic;">GO TO HELL</span>". We laughed and cried. Dad was at that point a shell. Anyone who has been through the death watch of a loved one knows this final state; where most of the organs have stopped working, but the clock that controls the breathing reflex and the heart has not quite wound down. The man we knew as our father was already gone. But if some part of him was still there in those last moments of the man, Dad would have been thoroughly amused.<br /><br />I love you Dad.<br /><br />PS. In the song "Eddiestone Light", there is a lyric about the mother sitting on a buoy. Well, when we were kids, we didn't know there was a floaty thing called a <span style="font-weight:bold;">buoy</span>, so we could never understand why the mother would sit on a <span style="font-weight:bold;">boy</span>. Poor kid! He'll drown!! What a horrible woman!!!sonicfroghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17243418673004541047noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9897291.post-1167062311575852002006-12-25T07:55:00.000-08:002006-12-27T06:06:37.246-08:00Merry ChristmasJust want to wish all y'all a Merry Christmas. I feel a feverish post coming, but I have to go to the pseudo-inlaws soon and don't have time to write. Talk soon.sonicfroghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17243418673004541047noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9897291.post-1166549990440526182006-12-19T09:28:00.000-08:002006-12-19T10:21:24.823-08:00222222222222<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.theonion.com/content/files/images/ms.article.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px;" src="http://www.theonion.com/content/files/images/ms.article.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a><br />Ha!!!! I beat you <a href="http://www.theonion.com/content/node/29130?issue=4227&special=1998">Bill Gates</a>. I DARE, no, DOUBLE DARE you to sue me... oh crap! They have a patent on that "two"?!?!?!?<br /><br />Hat Tip: <a href="http://www.theonion.com/content/index">The Onion</a> via <a href="http://madisman.blogspot.com/">Madison Man</a> via <a href="http://althouse.blogspot.com/">Althouse</a>.sonicfroghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17243418673004541047noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9897291.post-1165740970416309532006-12-10T00:52:00.000-08:002006-12-10T00:56:10.546-08:00My FatherIt just dawned on me on an emotional level - my dad, before he slid into his final decline, asked if Greg, my partner, was coming to visit. My Dad accepted Greg as part of the family and wanted to see him before he passed away. Yes. I am crying. I love you dad.sonicfroghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17243418673004541047noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9897291.post-1165626986709622992006-12-08T17:10:00.000-08:002006-12-08T18:45:24.820-08:00My Dad -- The Teacher ToyRead the post titled "In Memeory Of..." before reading this.<br /><br />OK. Proceed!<br /><br />I don't recall the exact year, but in the early 70's dad built a device that could have replaced the "Speak and Spell". About the size of a bread box, the "Teacher Toy" was made from a gutted reel-to-reel tape recorder. You would put a flash card in the slot on top of the box, push a button, and the card would move from left to right. The flash card was a standard index card that had a drawing of an object on one side and a strip of magnetic tape on the bottom of the other. As the card moved across the slot via a set of pulleys, the name and spelling of the pictured object would be read aloud from the speaker within the box. The one card I remember was a drawing of a trout. Because the "Teacher Toy" used flash cards, you could have an infinite number of objects to display and spell, unlike the "Speak and Spell", which is limited to the 12 items pre-programmed in the box. It may sound antiquated by today's technological standards, but for us the "Teacher Toy" was just short of magic. <br /><br />My dad was Mr. Fix-It, and tinkered with all manner of devices, from radios and TV's, to just about every single car we ever owned. I'm not sure if I can call my dad an inventor, since the "Teacher Toy" is the only thing I can recall that he built from scratch, but since I am the 5th child of six, he may have built other things I'm not aware of. What I am sure of is that I inherited his talent for fixing stuff. That will be the topic of the next <span style="font-weight:bold;">"My Dad"</span> post.<br /><br />PS. The picture of the trout was drawn by Dad. Did I forget to mention Dad was pretty talented with a pencil and drawing pad, a talent I definitely DID NOT inherit.sonicfroghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17243418673004541047noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9897291.post-1165626636128474202006-12-08T17:08:00.000-08:002006-12-08T17:10:36.153-08:00In memory of Bobby Lyle Alexander.Born Sept. 8, 1930. Died Nov. 28, 2006.<br /><br />Who was my dad? <br /><br />It is a question I can't answer, because, well, I was not him. Who can really say who anyone is, since we all have thoughts and hopes and dreams that are never revealed to anyone else. Even the scribblings in a diarey don't scratch the surface of the question. How do you quantify the measure of "who we are", or in this case, "who he was"? When I sat down to write this post, my first impulse was to uligize him by saying something along the lines of "My father was a loving husband to his wife of 48 years, and a wonderful dad to his six children. He was an intelligent, quiet man. He was an electrical engineer, and worked as a computer programmer for IBM in the 60's, and later, during its construction, worked on the computer programing for the "Air Trans" shuttle system at Dallas Ft Worth Airport. Blah. Blah. Blah. This is just information; dry facts revealing no flavor of the man who was my father. I think the best way for me to describe his impact on my life is to post some of my fondest memories of him, and describe the ways he helped shape my life.sonicfroghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17243418673004541047noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9897291.post-1165086875799439042006-12-02T10:51:00.000-08:002006-12-02T11:14:35.916-08:00No Title Seems To FitMy dad passed away last Tuesday. Succumbed to emphysema. My heart is heavy, but I, and the family, are relieved at the same time. His quality of life had been horrible for the last few years, but especially the last one. He knew he would not make it through the holidays and said as much. I got to Washington with time enough to tell him I loved him through a window of consciousness, but also watch the man who was my father suffer through greater pain than I can possibly fathom as his system slowly shut down. <br /><br />I am composing a post to honor him, but will not have time to finish. Greg and I are heading to San Luis Obisbo this afternoon for his company Christmas party, and since I just got home from Washington last night, there are lots of things to catch up on. Bills, etc.sonicfroghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17243418673004541047noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9897291.post-1164262172589314572006-11-22T21:33:00.000-08:002006-11-22T22:09:32.720-08:00Stuffing And Stuff...First off, Happy T-Day!<br /><br />I have sub'd three classes now. I am starting to feel a little less lost in the strange environment that is a class full of yahoo's. While I am taking steps to finalize the career change from pool guy to teacher, other things are moving along that make it hard to write about it. <br /><br />My dad has been battling emphysema for many years now, and the disease is starting to progress faster than it has in the past. Dad smoked heavily until about 1992, when the Docs told him he had emphysema and wouldn't last another year if he didn't stop smoking. Emphysema, usually caused by smoking, is a degenerative condition caused by damage to the lung tissue that allows both absorption of oxygen and release of CO2 into and out of the blood stream. As of this morning, he is in the hospital in Seattle. I don't want to say he is battling for his life, but he is having a hard time breathing, even with the oxygen mask. He may have had a heart attack but they just can't tell yet exactly what is going on. Mom said he has a 50 / 50 chance of making it, but since the docs are not sure exactly what is going on, that prediction of odds on survival seem premature. But I may be flying up to Seattle on very short notice. So if you don't see any blog posts for a while, you'll know why.<br /><br />Did I mention he also has diabetes?sonicfroghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17243418673004541047noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9897291.post-1163697386139205012006-11-16T09:13:00.000-08:002006-11-16T21:31:43.693-08:00Dogs and Cats...It's not just about <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=416816&in_page_id=1770">living together</a> anymore. At the gym, I overheard a couple of Republicans talking about this latest development in the erosion of social norms: <br /><br /><blockquote>"We warned everyone this would happen if we didn't pass the FMA!"<br /></blockquote><br /><br />Just kidding. That never happened. But still, thank God the Republicans are no longer in power. They certainly would have tried to amend the Constitution to prevent this sort of thing.<br /><br />Hat Tip: <a href="http://www.drudgereport.com/">Drudge</a>sonicfroghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17243418673004541047noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9897291.post-1163642637629128662006-11-15T17:54:00.000-08:002006-11-15T18:03:57.630-08:00Best Political Comment Of The Day... that I know of.Dean Barnett at <a href="http://hughhewitt.townhall.com/g/01ff462c-e694-4a1a-907d-572e61833298">Hugh Hewitt</a>, commenting on the "wisdom" of selecting former Republican senate majority leader Trent Lott as minority whip:<br /><br /><i>"Is it just me, or is it becoming increasingly apparent that the Republicans and Democrats are determined to engage in a two year dumb-off? If it weren’t for the fact that there are some very determined lunatics out there trying to kill us, this would be funny."</i><br /><br />Hat Tip: <a href="http://instapundit.com/">Insta-P</a>sonicfroghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17243418673004541047noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9897291.post-1163641407286377112006-11-15T17:13:00.000-08:002006-11-15T17:46:17.846-08:00I Am A Norwegian No Longer.... err, I mean virgin...<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://logodesign-webdesign.com/logodesigna2.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px;" src="http://logodesign-webdesign.com/logodesigna2.html" border="0" alt="" /></a><br />Well, today I taught my first class as a substitute. Subbing is harder than you would think. It was an 8th grade computer science class. The day went well enough - no one died or got sent to the office, and I didn't get flustered or freak when things didn't go smoothly, like when I lost the definitions web page I was using during the vocabulary exercise. The students didn't throw spit balls at me or anything. But, more than once, I felt very much out of my element. I definitely felt the pressure and uncertainty one feels when trying something really important for the first time, hoping they didn't screw anything up. I'm not ready to write about it yet as I'm still analyzing the experience, trying to figure out what I did right and what I need to improve on. I'm not freaked out over the experience too much, but I know I was very, very green. When I'm done absorbing the experience, I'll tell you all about the experience of the first time subbing job. But right now, I'd rather go have a beer, watch some tube, and relax for a spell. I must say, it was quite an experience.sonicfroghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17243418673004541047noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9897291.post-1163009136159724862006-11-08T09:46:00.000-08:002006-11-09T08:41:03.100-08:00Best Political Jabs... EVER!!!!From an informal <a href="http://pajamasmedia.com/2006/11/aftermath.php">Christopher Hitchens</a> interview on election night. On the prospect of George Allen losing his race in Virginia: <br /><br /><span style="font-style:italic;">"I... think it would be very nice for Mr. Allen in Virginia to lose. He needs to relax and find something else to do in his life."</span><br /><br />But the best line about the electorate, said without cracking a hint of smile, in the classic dry, droll, English, self evident manner: <br /><br /><span style="font-style:italic;">"By all means, stupid people should be represented, but not by stupid people."</span><br /><br />Hat Tip: <a href="http://instapundit.com/">Insta-P</a>sonicfroghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17243418673004541047noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9897291.post-1163007127060175772006-11-08T09:31:00.000-08:002006-11-08T09:32:07.106-08:00<a href="http://www.theonion.com/content/node/54918?utm_source=onion_rss_daily">WE WON!!!!</a>sonicfroghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17243418673004541047noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9897291.post-1162923480836925302006-11-07T10:06:00.000-08:002006-11-07T10:18:00.853-08:00Observation Of The Day!<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1890/741/1600/normal_wings3.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1890/741/1600/normal_wings3.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a><br /><br /><i>Pigeons are smart enough to play in the street without getting hit by cars. Can't say that of a human.</i><br /><br />A comment by Adam Fastman (Somerville, Massachusetts) from <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=414938&in_page_id=1770">This Article</a> about the long term memory capabilities of birds.<br /><br />Now I wonder if pigions would fair better than humans when designing <a href="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15590530/">electronic voting machines</a>.<br /><br />PS. What, did you really think I couldn't tie a story about bird brains to todays elections?sonicfroghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17243418673004541047noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9897291.post-1162606104551835952006-11-03T17:54:00.000-08:002006-11-03T18:08:24.580-08:00Pandora's Box...... <a href="http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,3-2436948,00.html">blasted opened</a> with nuclear ambitions. It <strike>probably</strike>, no, certainly would have happened sooner or later. I've been arguing this inevitability for quite some time, the last two years at least, with the specter of N. Korea or Iran developing the capabilities. There is no way to stop it (and no Mr. Hewitt, nuking either country won't stop it, that would just make other countries feel more compelled to acquire it). But it would be very hard to argue our involvement in Iraq did not accelerate the process. Thank you very little, theocons.sonicfroghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17243418673004541047noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9897291.post-1162407682580249202006-11-01T10:51:00.000-08:002006-11-01T14:38:30.016-08:00Fill In The BlankI was thinking about Kerry's statement and wondered where it could be more appropriate.<br /><br /><i>"You know, education, if you make the most of it, if you study hard and you do your homework, and you make an effort to be smart, you, you can do well. If you don’t, you get stuck _____________________."</i> <br /><br />The response jumped out at me like a cornered mouse; judging from the amount of drop-outs that work in the industry --- "<br /><br />...in Hollywood".<br /><br />"...doing govenrment work".<br /><br />"...being a Senator". <br /><br />"...being the President".<br /><br />"...working as a pool guy". (Ha Ha)<br /><br />Any one else want to play?sonicfroghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17243418673004541047noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9897291.post-1162401416995514462006-11-01T07:33:00.000-08:002006-11-01T09:29:57.563-08:00Kerry On.<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://time.blogs.com/daily_dish/images/kerrycharlieneibergallap_2.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px;" src="http://time.blogs.com/daily_dish/images/kerrycharlieneibergallap_2.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a><br /><br /><blockquote><i>"You know, education, if you make the most of it, if you study hard and you do your homework, and you make an effort to be smart, you, you can do well. If you don’t, you get stuck in Iraq."</i></blockquote><br /><br /><br />Go ahead. Just keep chewing on that elitist foot. Must be tasty. It's in his mouth so often. How can a politician be so tone deaf? Isn't this the same guy who showed up for a enviro-rally bashing SUV / gas guzzler owners, but during the same campaign shows up in Detroit to campaign and says he owns and <a href="http://www.seanet.com/~jimxc/Politics/April2004_3.html">drives a Dodge 600 and recently bought a Chrysler 300M</a> and a Chevrolet SUV. Oh, but he doesn't own the SUV, his wife does. "The family has it. I don't have it". So I guess that makes that little bit of hypocrisy OK? Then there was the U.S. soldiers were in Iraq "terrorizing kids and children" comment he made earlier this year. Kerry is no smooth operator.<br /><br />So maybe Kerry did mangle a joke. I've certainly butchered pretty much every joke I"ve ever tried to tell, so I'll take Kerry at his word. None the less, did he not hear how that sentence came out? It would have been very easy to recover by adding "Mr. Bush did not do his homework!". The right wing spin machine would still have had a field day, as they would have chopped up the audio to exclude the Bush reference, just as they chopped the audio on the Michael J Fox commercial to make it sound like Fox was saying Jim Talent is against all stem cell research (Hannity's lie). But these type of media manipulations are easy to refute. But Kerry now has his own verbal equivalent of a hanging chad. His intent simply was not clear or concise. Like it or not, regardless of what he intended, it sounded like he was talking about the troops.<br /><br />As sad as Kerry's remarks were, I'm just as troubled by the response from the audience. They cheered. It appears many Democrat supporters still cling to the stereotype that the men and women who enlist in the military do so because, well, they're not smart enough to do anything else.<br /><br />PS. I forgot that Kerry is one of those who got us "stuck" in Iraq since he voted for the war. I guess he didn't do his homework either.sonicfroghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17243418673004541047noreply@blogger.com2