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Thursday, November 04, 2004

Thu, 04 Nov 2004 07:04:23 GMT

It begins...
Bush Holds 1st Cabinet Meeting Since Aug.

Just a few hours after Bush said:
"So today I want to speak to every person who voted for my opponent. To make this nation stronger and better, I will need your support and I will work to earn it. I will do all I can do to deserve your trust. A new term is a new opportunity to reach out to the whole nation."

He releases his 2nd term agenda:
"He pledged to keep up the fight against terrorism, press for stable democracies in Iraq and Afghanistan, simplify the tax code, allow younger workers to invest some of their Social Security withholdings in the stock market, continue to raise accountability standards in public schools and "uphold our deepest values and family and faith."
Other items include reforms to the nation's intelligence community, halving the record $413 billion deficit, expanding health care coverage, a constitutional ban on gay marriage and moving "this goodhearted nation toward a culture of life."

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A "simplified tax code" AKA Flat Tax

Privatized Social Security

"Raised accountability standards in public schools" AKA Justifying taking away their funding and moving to a voucher system

A Constitutial ammendment banning gay marriage

Banning abortion (yet still following the notion of "a culture of life" by sending our troops over to kill and be killed)

His efforts to "reach out to the whole nation" are astounding.

Wednesday, November 03, 2004

Wed, 03 Nov 2004 22:04:24 GMT

It's hailing in the Bay Area and there's thunder and lighting. God is angry. I sense the Apocolypse is near.

Friday, September 03, 2004

Fri, 03 Sep 2004 14:03:45 GMT

Gmail just gave me a bunch of invites. Anyone want an account? You get 1 GB of space for free.

Wednesday, September 01, 2004

Wed, 01 Sep 2004 15:37:03 GMT

Florida Officials Maintain Hand Recounts Ban

Tuesday, August 31, 2004

Tue, 31 Aug 2004 05:32:37 GMT

Oh, as long as I'm making recommendations, I rented a great movie recently, Goodbye, Lenin! It's a German movie about the life of a family living in East Berlin at the time of reunification. It's a drama/comedy (dramedy) and it's done very well. The score is done by the same guy who did the music for Amelie, Yann Thiersen.

Tuesday, August 31, 2004

Tue, 31 Aug 2004 05:16:58 GMT

I just downloaded the Franz Ferdinand CD. I like it.

They're coming to San Francisco on my mother's birthday. Hm, should I blow her off and go to the concert instead?

Tuesday, August 31, 2004

Tue, 31 Aug 2004 04:06:18 GMT

I've learned that my cat likes to eat pita and hummus.

Monday, August 30, 2004

Mon, 30 Aug 2004 23:07:28 GMT

This is a great site:

http://www.gregpalast.com/blog.cfm

Wednesday, August 25, 2004

Wed, 25 Aug 2004 23:24:33 GMT

So I have an announcement. In the midst of band camp, some of you may have noticed I haven't come back to L.A. That's because I won't be coming back to SC this year. It's complicated, but it's basically money issues. I've known that I probably wouldn't be back since about June, though I've put off telling anyone because saying it made it true and I was still hoping something would happen to change things. Now that the new school year has started, that obviously won't happen. I'm living at home and working full time with my sister at the promotional products company. It's all disappointing since life in the Bay Area isn't so fun anymore and this means I'll have a harder time graduating.

Hopefully I can get down to L.A. to visit often. Keep me in mind for your free tickets--if you tell me you have one available, that may be all the excuse I need to make a visit. I'll miss everyone a lot, so be sure to email/IM/call me whenever you have the chance--I'll be really happy to hear from you. I hope everyone has a great year and hopefully I'll be back in So Cal as soon as possible.

Wednesday, August 25, 2004

Wed, 25 Aug 2004 23:22:45 GMT

The whole Swift Boat thing is turning into a bitch fight.

Read this article: Cleland Tries to Deliver Letter to Bush

Cleland is the triple amputee Vietnam Vet, former Democratic Senator of Georgia who was attempting to deliver a letter condemning the Swift Boat ads to Bush on his Texas ranch on behalf of nine other veteran senators.

The worst quote in the article was this one:

"A Texas state official and Vietnam veteran, Jerry Patterson, said someone from the Bush campaign contacted him Wednesday morning and asked him if he would travel to the ranch, welcome Cleland to Texas and accept the former senator's letter to Bush.

'I tried to accept that letter and he would not give it to me,' said Patterson. 'He would not face me. He kept rolling away from me. He's quite mobile.'"

Then the Bush campaign attempts to deliver a complaint to the Kerry campaign's accusations in that I'm-not-speaking-to-you, Tell-Max-to-tell-Jon-that-he's-a-big-doo-doo-head manner:

"Patterson, who spoke with the president on the phone, said the campaign asked him to give Cleland a letter for Kerry written by the Bush campaign and signed by Patterson and seven other veterans.

'You can't have it both ways,' the letter said. 'You can't build your convention and much of your campaign around your service in Vietnam, and then try to say that only those veterans who agree with you have a right to speak up.'"

(Not that Kerry's saying they don't have a right to speak, they just don't have the right to make what they claim are false, slanderous accusations.)

Who else is getting sick of this whole thing?