time for a brain dump...

god told pat robertson the tsunami was coming...maybe he didn't fill anyone else in on the secret because the disaster was directed at heathens. and with god talking to the likes of pat robertson and gw, i'm rather glad i abandoned the catholic faith ages ago because he either has a twisted sense of humor, or he has just lost his damn mind...

the cubs managed to give me a slimmer of hope before again showing how completely useless this team and it's manager are...two in a row, but against one of the three teams worse than us. and then kerry wood comes back and gets out of the first inning on 8 pitches, 7 for strikes, and two strikeouts. then proceeds to give up three homeruns. and of course, with a possible rally in the bottom of the 9th, down two runs...with two outs...neifi perez lays down a bunt...interesting choice. and this is dusty's boy. why do i still believe?

danielle won america's next top model...my ability to pick them is seriously beginning to freak me out. i didn't watch the first season, but i chose the winner within the first two weeks every year since (last year took me a little longer). i need to put money on this...or become a scout.

saw a friend of mine for the first time since his stint in iraq. the look on his face and in his eyes was eerie...enough to make you wonder the obsession with war.

americans are mad because the intelligence community was looking at their phone records. apparently the country missed the last 50 years when the intelligence community got way out of hand and had it's hand in everything, everywhere...but the rest of the world noticed...and THAT is why "they" hate "us"...

america contributes more to death around the world than just about everyone else combined (ok, that is an exaggeration)...but the pentagon and it's buddies at the cia do sell a hell of a lot of destructive weapons to folks that use them for not-so-good reasons. but we sell them for good reasons...so it's ok right? i mean, really, how are we to know that things designed exclusively to kill a bunch of people will be used for bad things? and THAT, too, is why "they" hate "us"...

i like how self-proclaimed "liberal" politicians like to talk about not leaving huge debts to our children and grandchildren. of course these same politicians never seemed to have a problem leaving a much worse legacy to younger generations...the military-intelligence-industrial complex and it's dominance of life in washington. hell, they need the pork it generates for their constituents.

someone finally filled me in on the women protesting downtown in black once a week...they are protesting the death penalty. to which i say...woot. it always drove me nuts that i had no idea what they were doing there...now, it drives me nuts that i used to have no idea what they were doing there.

25 anti-amnesty folks marched the same route marched by immigrants and their supporters in chicago. 25. wow. keep it up guys...only about 399,975 people to go before you catch up. perhaps bigotry isn't as catching as i thought it was...

the state of new mexico wants to put some folks to death...but they don't want to pay for a fair trial. they are spending lots of your tax dollars in an attempt to make sure they can ask for death rather than life without parole...and then will spend a lot more of your tax dollars to ask for death. with the money the government is spending on this case...they could seriously fix up some schools. just a thought...

bill richardson is a crook. don't try to convince me he's done good things for this state or brought recognition. he is a crook.

mayor daley is going down and machine politics in chicago will temporarily go with him. think about that.

i saw a middle school (the home of the jets) watering the street yesterday...in the desert...during a drought.

the united states is a lot closer to soviet russia than you ever imagined.

i've been pissing in the wind...