"We Are.."

"Penn State..."

Blue/White game tomorrow.

Friday Morning Music

The best band I have ever seen live.

Nora Kicks Ass

Liz, your dad is a dick, seriously.

I Hate Technology

This was a very funny way to end what has been one of the more crappy days in my life.

"We Are America, We Do Not Fucking Torture"

Those are not my words (although they could be). Those are the words for Fox News host Shepard Smith. How 'bout the apples. Shep, I can't believe how awesome this is.

I love where about five seconds after the F-bomb he says, "oops" like he realizes what he said. I love this.

Karl Rove has tried to turn this into a left-right issue. If you are for doing "whatever it takes" to defend America, you are Republican and you are right. If you have limits to what you consider acceptable tactics to use when fighting a war, you are a a Democrat, and you are a pussy.

There could be nothing that is less of a Right-Left argument. This is a do you believe in the values of our founding fathers, or do you believe that drastic times call for throwing the Constitution out the window.

The fact of the matter is, as SUNY Brockport Political Science Professor David Stavely can attest (having almost failed his class in '03 for disagreeing on this point) 9-11 scared the shit out of a lot of people. People no longer felt safe in their happy little lives, as Tyler Derden was discribe it, they had lost their illusion of safety.

And in this new world, where the illusion of safety had been torn down, people were willing to forget the values that make this country special and do what ever those in power told them to do inorder to regain some semblance of the "saftey" they felt before.

In this act, this "pee-your-pants" response to Terror, is the ultimate truth of 9-11. Whether that act was perpetrated by Muslim Extremists, our own Government, or some combination (as I think it was) the result was exactly what "they" were looking for. Which was scaring enough people into going along with whatever the Cheney-Bush Cabal wanted them to go along with.

This, 9-11, torture, Iraq, Afganistan, Blackwater, GitMo, all of this is about one thing and one thing only. Money. Ok, two things, Money and Power.

And the way you know they are worried about this is seeing Darth Dick crawl out of his lair to defend their actions.

"President Obama Won"

Hillary, I love you here. This is the exact counter argument that could be used for anyone trying to say Obama was wrong to release the "Torture Memos".

"Just Keep Walkin'"

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I hate you Peggy Noonan.

10 Years Later

I was a sophomore in high school. This was the first national tragedy that I really remember.

How quickly we forget about things like this.

Watching the footage from the security cameras is surreal. Those were real high school boys shooting people.

10 years later.

The Last One

This is the final trailer for Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince which releases either July 15th or 17th.

I can say in all honesty that the hair on the back of my neck stood up through all of this video.

I am about 100 pages from finishing this book for about the sixth time. I think this book is so good because it marks the end of a major part of the series. Until the end of book 6 and the beginning of book 7, Harry could always rely on Dumbledore to act as his guide post. This part of the story ends with the "lightning struck tower" and Dumbledore's death. It is from this point forward that Harry must figure out his path for himself. This culminates with the chapter at Shell Cottage in book 7 where Harry has to come to a final decsion while burrying his fallen friend, Horcruxes or Hallows?

I just finished the chapter last night in which Dumbledore is imploring Harry to see that he does not need to have great power to defeat Voldemort. Harry replies that the Prophecy states that one of them must die, and Dumbledore responds that Harry continues to put too much store into the prophecy, that had he never heard the prophecy he would still want to see Voldemort killed, and would want to be the one to do it.

At the end of the chapter, Harry thinks to himself that walking into the arena facing his own death is much better than being dragged into it, and that made all the difference.

It is in this realization that we see the seeds being planted for Harry's ultimate decision to face his own death by walking back into the forest, along side his parents, Sirius and Lupin near the end of book 7. I can't wait for this movie.

Lonely People

I was in a bar last night. I felt a level of discomfort, this is what I was feeling.

Lonely People.