If this is true I’ve found the candidate I’m going to stump for in the 2008 presidential race. Game over.
We couldn’t possibly have a better president than the guy known as “Dr. No“.
I’ve got to go cry many tears of joy now. More later.
Here is a great Wired piece about Masi Oka, the actor who plays Hiro Nakamura on this years best new TV show “Heroes”.
Lisa heard This story about the Nuns at Carmel of the Immaculate Heart of Mary in Holladay and how Utah has cracked down on their illegal gambling operation (they wanted to host a bingo game). She was outraged…I think justifiably. It all just illustrates the silliness of Utah and our vice laws.
Is this gambling too? How are they different?
Souldn’t Utahns be just a little embarrassed that this law, designed to protect us from ourselves, is being carried so far as to threaten the nuns over their bingo game?
Everyone should read this interview of Michael Scheuer by Harper’s Magazine. I nominate this guy as the next National Security Advisor if we are lucky enough to get a Democratic President in 2008.
Hat Tip: Ed Partridge
Rocky Anderson is an embarrassment to my party. He represents everything about my party that I disagree with. I’m glad he’s leaving office and hope to never have to read about him in the papers again after he has finished his final term. That is all I have to say about that.
Scott Hinrichs at Reach Upward has written an interesting post based largely on a recent Michael Barone column. He contends that one reason, the main reason, the Democratic Party has so much trouble in Utah is because nationally it seems to have rejected the idea that the United States of America is different from the rest of the nations of the world…different in a good way.
The idea of American exceptionalism is one I have always subscribed too. I really do believe that our history and founding reflect a nation and government substantially better than any other in the world’s history. Read the whole post…it is hard to disagree with his assertion about national Democrats and their rejection of American exceptionalism. Joining the world court and accepting Kyoto are two easy examples of policies many Democrats (including the senatorial candidate I support) have argued for. I believe each be disastrous for our nation’s economy and sovereignty.
I loathe President Bush and think he has performed very poorly in every aspect of his stewardship. I believe the Iraq war is a failure and has harmed our ability to respond to terrorism around the world. I think the Patriot Act does nothing to protect us from terrorism but that it harms Americans by granting nearly every violation of our civil rights that over-reaching government police agencies have been begging for over the past 50 years. I think the Republicans have proven to be a complete failure in making our government smaller/better as they promised they would. I guess you could say that If I went by the mantra my mom taught me, “If you can’t say anything nice don’t say anything at all.” the Republicans wouldn’t be mentioned on this blog.
All of this said, I think we on the left sometimes wear our tin foil hats a little too tightly.
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Here’s Phil Windley on Hatch’s proposed patent legislation.
Bottom line: Don’t bother trying to invent anything new unless you have loads of cash to get it patented quickly on your own. If a business steals your idea and has the resources to quickly get a patent on it you’re hosed.
Thanks Orrin. Thanks.
Thad Van Ry at Woods Cross Citizen has finally received responses from all candidates for Davis County Commission on his list of questions. Give it a read…especially if you live in Davis County!
Here are the candidates’ responses in the race for seat A
Here are the candidates’ responses in the race for seat B
Nice Work Woods Cross Citizen!
I’ve already endorsed Rob Miller on this site. I highly recommend him to all of the voters in Davis County who think stifling one party rule by Republicans in Davis County should be pushed aside in favor of an enlightened bi-partisan exchange of ideas that will benefit our county. In reading the responses to the questions it is clear that if anything Miller is even more fiscally conservative than his opponent. Those who study up on the candidates and vote for the guy who is best for the county will have no excuse for not seriously considering the Democrat in this race. I don’t yet know enough about the candidates for the Seat B race but I really think it would be refreshing to have two Democrats on the commission (has that ever happened?) so I’m leaning toward Martinez.
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If I had one of these I’d have a great excuse to spend at least an hour a day playing CounterStrike or World of Warcraft! Who knows how much weight I could lose. I’m betting it would be a lot.
The Navy gives trainees a fake gun, a set of VR goggles, puts them in the ball then sets the simulation to running and like a good hamster the guy playing the game participating in the training simulation starts running and shooting virtual bad guys. VERY COOL.
For lack of anything else interesting to post on this morning (oh yeah…good riddance to Tom Delay) I decided to post a link for everyone to my favorite music blog. It seems this guy has nearly exactly the same taste in music as I do because every week he finds 3 songs (with links to download mp3s) I really like. Here is my favorite from this week:
Matt Costa - Cold December
I also really like the commentary about each of the songs provided for download. It is fun to listen to the song after reading the descriptions provided by Jeremy (the site’s proprietor)…you listen differently than if you are just hearing a new song for the first time without any introduction.
Ok…I’ve been flogging this idea for the past week and now things are just about ready to go. I figured Thursday, April 6 would be a good day to start the project but I need some ideas about how we can most effectively make the site work. I really want it to be a motivation for participants (me especially) to study the Book of Mormon and comment on their study on a daily or near daily basis. Should we have a weekly study assignment or should everybody just post what ever thoughts or ideas they want as they read on their own?
Any ideas?
I have registered the domain where the blog will be published. www.bookofmormon.org.
I’m more than a little surprised that domain name was available. Hopefully participants will be able to make it a place where lots of people can gain positive and valuable insight into the Book of Mormon.
It would sure be cool to get more volunteers to help contribute to the site (the people who have already volunteered are AWESOME and I’m more than a little excited about the commentary and ideas that will be posted on the site as time progresses). It would also be very nice to have some volunteers to help administer and maintain the site. I still haven’t made a final decision on a blog engine and spam blocking scheme to keep the site’s integrity secure. Any ideas or thoughts? Anyone who wants to join or who has ideas or thoughts that might be helpful should leave a comment on this post or anywhere on my blog or email me at jeremy at themannings dot org.
Here is a portion of a comment I recieved from my favorite commenter on the left, John:
Unfortunately polls are suggesting that these ads are working. Bush denied any connection with the swift boat group but then the Bush campaign attourney resigned after it was revealed that he was repressenting the swiftboat group.
Sinking to perhaps a new low, the Bush campaign is now exploiting the olympic games in an political ad. Scumbag.
Oh please. The guy is a scumbag but not because he’s “exploiting” the “sacred” Olympic games. I don’t see what’s so bad about pointing out that it is only because there is a Bush administration that there is an Iraqi Olympic team that isn’t going to be fed into a plastic shredder when they don’t medal. That’s effective political advertising.
My fear of the Republicans goes back to their latest moves in the whole Swift Boat Veterans for Truth controversy.
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