Alec Baldwin gives money to a troop

I always get upset when people pretend that voting against funding for our military is actually in support for our troops. I guess Baldwin just wants the troops to have the money as long as they aren't in the army.

Interesting plan, Alec. Pay people to quit as quickly as possible.

Actually, he isn't doing that at all. I know he has other objectives than what is coming out because I've heard the guy talk about the military in the past and admiration and care are not words to describe those feelings (just do a search at the Huffington Post).

His hidden agenda is probably that the girl is good looking and he wants to sleep with her.

Chucky's Responsibility

The title stated that a timetable will not hurt our troops, so I immediately thought to myself, "great, another article about Iraq, from someone who knows nothing about how the military works."

He changes directions for a brief moment. The Chuckster believes it is the editorialist's responsibility to say boo about the war. No, that is not your responsibility. I believe it is to write a good article, not spout mindless opinions about something you pretend to understand.

Continuing on.

First: No matter what that president whom you love so much tells you, this resolution is not about going after service men and women. It isn't about "not supporting" the troops and it doesn't render moot the lives that have already been lost in Iraq.

This resolution isn't about going after the military, but it does do so. When you threaten to increase qualifications to go to Iraq (Murtha), therefore limiting our troops in Iraq, or threaten to hold back funding (Reid/Pelosi), you are going after our armed services.

It is sad when a soldier dies fighting for our country, and in many other cases, our world, but to pull out of Iraq before finishing would mean those men died for nothing. That is a cold-hard fact. They died to bring peace and stability to Iraq while fighting the war on terror, and pulling out now would mean none of that was accomplished. Pretty simple math here, Chucky. People like you believe that if you keep saying it, it will become reality. Doesn't work that way.

He continues with babble. Really bad babble. Sounded as if I wrote it but was an idiot leftist.

Amidst the babble, he says that because Bush has no plan we should surrender the war and allow Iraq to be controlled by Islamafacists. Who couldn't get behind that plan?

His next "point."

Second: Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell's (R-Ky.) argument that this gives the enemy a copy of our "battle plan" is fundamentally true; what's not fundamentally true is that this is our entire battle plan or that it really matters.

You can't see that there are terrorists waiting to take control? You can't see that most Iraqis want us there right now because they want to be free? You can't see that pulling out now would give power to the terrorists and prevent freedom to Iraqis?

Creating a time table will increase the terrorist population because people will have recognized their victory. A time table will give them months to build up and plan. We shouldn't pull out at all, Chucky, but making it known well in advance is about the dumbest thing to pile on with.

Furthermore, what other battle plan has McConnell got to hide? I could sell the terrorists the whiskey-stained, blank sheet of receipt paper sitting under my coffee and they'd likely have a better document than anything McConnell, Bush or any one of the Georgetown-trained interns at the White House could hope to come up with.

I'm guessing you sat in on the briefings because you seem to know so much about the situation. Again, saying he has no battle plan doesn't make it true. You may laugh at "stay with the course," but it happens to be the best thing to do when trying to accomplish such a task. And that statement doesn't mean, "keep doing what you are doing." There are obviously more detail going into the war that isn't getting published, but what would you know about that?

Finally: Perhaps most important as far as we're concerned, Sen. Ben Nelson (D-Neb.) and Sen. Chuck Hagel (R-Neb.) are together the reason that this legislation passed. Hagel, keeping with what has become an unusually honorable streak in dealing with the war, was one of only two Republicans to vote for the legislation.

Hagel is honorable because he thinks like you on one issue. Set the bar high.

What is very dishonorable is acting as if he speaks for the military (like McCain) when they don't. These guys have lost more of the military vote than most democrats (mainly because the democrats didn't have much), which is clear to show that they care more about winning an election than standing up for the men and organization they fought next to years ago.

Lieberman is a snake, though. Go figure.

After reading The Chuckster's latest editorial, I have come to the conclusion that I was way wrong. The editorialist's responsibility is actually to write a factless propaganda piece that says, "the left is right because I said so." No further explanation needed.

Freddy v Mike

I like it. Mike Meyers is my favorite villain and why not have him go at it with Freddy. Some are upset about the talk but I like the idea.

Gravity and Dark Matter

Dark Matter is something that has no definition yet as no one knows what it is. Basically, it is a something-or-other that is probably more powerful than gravity because it is expanding the Universe faster and faster, while also never getting weaker.

If you look at our solar system, you will see that the Sun's gravity has less effect on the planet Uranus than it does our Earth, therefore Earth moves at a faster rate around the sun. But, if you were to look at the entire galaxy, our solar system travels around the center (where the Supermassive Black Hole is) at the same rate as every other system in the Milky Way. That means something is keeping everything together but it is impossible to detect what that something is (or at least we haven't yet).

At Space.com, they have an article about how our probes were expected to travel faster the further away from the sun they got (because gravity wasn't holding it back as it moved in the opposite direction), but they haven't. Pretty interesting read.

I read a book recently that had a chapter on Dark Matter which is where I got most of the above information.

Legalization of Drugs

Yeah, Paul, I read stuff from a site called "Right Wing News." Anyways, a good debate over the legalization of drugs.

I had the same debate with my old roommate and he said all drugs should be legal while I thought that only a few should be legal, but highly taxed. Anyways, this guys piece pretty much sums up our debate. My point was that I would do drugs if they were legal, so how is that helping society? I figure there are more like me, and many more that would waste there lives on drugs if they wouldn't get thrown in jail (higher numbers than currently), because jail is a deterrent despite what many believe.

Upon further thought, drugs should be treated like all the other drugs. Prescription based and caps being placed on the amount people can have.

On Robtopia, if you were caught with H and other powerful opiates, then you are immediately executed. No courts.

DN filled with pro and anti religious articles recently

Today, I decided to check it out. This article calls a religious, evangelical man an outcast with a great message. I had to keep reading.

Balmer is upset that the religious right are politically active. So, he combats their politically activeness by acting politically.

He had me for a while. Until the very end in the bulletins.

People who purport to hear “fetal scream” when it comes to abortion seem to turn a deaf ear to a real scream when it comes to using torture as a military tactic.

Surprising that a man who would say this wants republicans to stop being republicans. Balmer's new "Step Back the Vote" campaign is a real winner.

Ends on this note:

“Much as I would like all of my fellow Americans to be Christians or vegetarians or Democrats, I have no right to demand it,” he wrote in his book.

Hmmmm.

Now, I'm not strong on my religion. If anything, I'd say I'm more liberal in those views (I just don't know what the stories are). But, this has got to be the cheapest attempt by anyone in silencing the opposition. "Only people who think like me, politically, are allowed to be politically oriented."
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And a guest editorial by an atheist. At what point in time did atheism become a religion itself? It seems that atheists are so strong on their beliefs, that they can't take criticism in their views. I would believe that an atheist wouldn't care that someone else believes in something. They can go on their marry way not believing. Instead, they stop at every street corner and argue with the a guy holding the Ten Commandments.

Atheists bring nothing to the world but would be perfectly fine if they didn't act so damn smug about their views. If you're an atheist, good for you. Just don't go around telling everyone how stupid they are for disagreeing with you.

I guess the root of my argument is that if you don't believe in something, then you have nothing further to debate. It's not like people go around heckling little kids for believing in Santa Clause.

Yuck, my hot tea got cold quickly.

This argument could probably go both ways, but I've never heard a Christian say they were offended because a prayer wasn't said before a meal.

I skimmed through the article and read the last paragraph, so that is what I'm talking about. I think the rest was him refuting what was previously said by some other staff writer.

Kid brings coke to school for Show and Tell

The kid was in first grade, so about five years old. Mother is 20, and a wonderful parent I can assume.

SHREVEPORT, La. — A 20-year-old Shreveport woman has been arrested after her first-grade son brought a rock of crack cocaine to school for show-and-tell.

Police were especially disturbed by the child's understanding of crack cocaine. They said he seemed so accustomed to the highly addictive drug that he thought there was nothing wrong with bringing it to school.

Police did not release the name of the school, saying they are still investigating.

Lachristie Thomas was booked on a charge of improper child supervision, a misdemeanor.

Police say the six-year-old was placed in foster care.

It is just so funny that something like this can happen. If the son thought nothing of taking the rock to school, then it wouldn't be a stretch to say he had, at the very least, accidentally tried it. Five year old!

Hmmm, what would I do to someone like this on Robtopia. Well, I think they would fit better in a poor area of Africa because they give their kids heroin. So, I guess my punishment to doing something like this is to export them to a third world country.

Funny picture

Two thoughts on SNL

Julie Louie Dreyfus is hot.


SNL has some of the worst writers in history.

I think the problem is that weird became funny, and they aren't good at it. Instead they are just stupid.

NASA Mar's South Pole has a lot of ice

Mars' South Pole Ice Deep and Wide	03.15.07
Pasadena, Calif. -- New measurements of Mars' south polar region indicate extensive frozen water. The polar region contains enough frozen water to cover the whole planet in a liquid layer approximately 11 meters (36 feet) deep. A joint NASA-Italian Space Agency instrument on the European Space Agency's Mars Express spacecraft provided these data. This new estimate comes from mapping the thickness of the ice. The Mars Express orbiter's radar instrument has made more than 300 virtual slices through layered deposits covering the pole to map the ice. The radar sees through icy layers to the lower boundary, which is as deep as 3.7 kilometers (2.3 miles) below the surface. Image right: This map shows the thickness of the south polar layered deposits of Mars, an ice-rich geologic unit that was probed by the Mars Advanced Radar for Subsurface and Ionospheric Sounding (MARSIS). Image Credit: NASA/JPL/ASI/ESA/Univ. of Rome/MOLA Science Team/USGS + Full image and caption + View more images "The south polar layered deposits of Mars cover an area bigger than Texas. The amount of water they contain has been estimated before, but never with the level of confidence this radar makes possible," said Jeffrey Plaut of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena Calif. Plaut is co-principal investigator for the radar and lead author of a new report on these findings published in the March 15 online edition of the journal Science. The instrument, named the Mars Advanced Radar for Subsurface and Ionospheric Sounding (MARSIS), also is mapping the thickness of similar layered deposits at the north pole of Mars. "Our radar is doing its job extremely well," said Giovanni Picardi, a professor at the University of Rome "La Sapienza," and principal investigator for the instrument. "MARSIS is showing itself to be a very powerful tool to probe underneath the Martian surface, and it's showing how our team's goals, such as probing the polar layered deposits, are being successfully achieved," Picardi said. "Not only is MARSIS providing us with the first-ever views of Mars subsurface at those depths, but the details we are seeing are truly amazing. We expect even greater results when we have concluded an ongoing, sophisticated fine-tuning of our data processing methods. These should enable us to understand even better the surface and subsurface composition." Polar layered deposits hold most of the known water on modern Mars, though other areas of the planet appear to have been very wet at times in the past. Understanding the history and fate of water on Mars is a key to studying whether Mars has ever supported life, since all known life depends on liquid water. The polar layered deposits extend beyond and beneath a polar cap of bright-white frozen carbon dioxide and water at Mars' south pole. Dust darkens many of the layers. However, the strength of the echo that the radar receives from the rocky surface underneath the layered deposits suggests the composition of the layered deposits is at least 90 percent frozen water. One area with an especially bright reflection from the base of the deposits puzzles researchers. It resembles what a thin layer of liquid water might look like to the radar instrument, but the conditions are so cold that the presence of melted water is deemed highly unlikely. Detecting the shape of the ground surface beneath the ice deposits provides information about even deeper structures of Mars. "We didn't really know where the bottom of the deposit was," Plaut said. "Now we can see that the crust has not been depressed by the weight of the ice as it would be on the Earth. The crust and upper mantle of Mars are stiffer than the Earth's, probably because the interior of Mars is so much colder." The MARSIS instrument on the European Space Agency's Mars Express orbiter was developed jointly by the Italian Space Agency and NASA, under the scientific supervision of the University of Rome "La Sapienza," in partnership with JPL and the University of Iowa, Iowa City. JPL manages NASA's roles in Mars Express for the NASA Science Mission Directorate, Washington. For information about NASA and agency programs, visit: www.nasa.gov

Take a Trip On Mars

The BBC wrote an article about how NASA created this thing, but it is pretty cool. This is a good look a the future Robtopia.

Faster than the speed of light

Yesterday, I brought up how traveling faster than the speed of light is the key to being able to travel back in time.

To coin my colleague, "while dicking around on the Internet," I found this little gem. Most of it you won't be able to understand as you don't have the ability to process the information like I do, but one part towards the end is key.

As the universe aged, the free space permittivity and permeability increased and c decreased--but the velocity of gravity may not be tied to the permittivity and permeability of free space! If this the case the velocity of gravity stayed at the original velocity of c. If we can produce a propulsion system based on gravitational principles rather than electromagnetic or chemical ones, we could travel at absolutely enormous speeds--we could hope to push a space craft anywhere in the universe, very literally at warp speeds beyond what even the Starship Enterprise could produce!

I might have to define most of those terms for you, Paul. Let me know.

C is the speed of light, that one I know you didn't know as you didn't take Liberal Physics class like I did.

So, we build this gravitationally powered space ship and we can travel faster than the speed of light, therefore, going back in time. The problem the article does not mention is that gravity is a force used by all dimensions, which is why, as the article says, it is the weakest force known to man. It is kind of diluted.

The key is that it is also stretched into the 11th dimension, or membrane dimension (the "gateway" to other universes). Theoretically, and this is coming from my own head and not backed by anyone that knows what they are talking about, if we could master gravity, we could venture to Gigantopithicus, the home of the Sasquatchians, namely Big Foot (Tim).

Seriously, minus the last little blip about Big Foot.

She's on to me

Hilary Clinton should keep her mouth shut if she knew what was good for her.

This VRWC of ours will never be stopped. In fact, this eventually is what puts me in power and jump starts Robtopia.

After the assassination of future (D) President George Clooney, I command control and move the followers to Mars. Canada then inherits America to allow all the "I'm moving to Canada if..." crowd to have a home.

Take that Hitler

One of the most commonly used phrasing, "Take that Hitler!" was issued by Isolde Saalmann as he seeks to take back Adolf's German citizenship. Well played, Isolde.

I have a DVR recording talking about Hitler. It might be my tv watching for tonight after this story.

Traveling back in time is impossible

According to this Fox News article, it is impossible.

If you can recall, I more or less touched up on the possibility of traveling back and forth inside of time in the past. This article only mentions a 10 dimension universe, leaving out the 11th which consists of the membranes.

Big Foot knows how to do it.

One of the guys interviewed in the article, Michio Kaku, is on the Discovery Channels all the time when they talk about space and quantum mechanics.

"Wormholes are the future, wormholes are the past," said Michio Kaku, author of "Hyperspace" and "Parallel Worlds" and a physicist at the City University of New York. "But we have to be very careful. The gasoline necessary to energize a time machine is far beyond anything that we can assemble with today's technology."

I think this is him dumbing it down for everyone because they wouldn't use gasoline to fuel an experiment like this. Anti-matter, or at the very least, nuclear power would be used.

"If you want to know what the Earth is like one million years from now, I'll tell you how to do that," said Greene, a consultant for "Déjà Vu," a recent movie that dealt with time travel. "Build a spaceship. Go near the speed of light for a length of time — that I could calculate. Come back to Earth, and when you step out of your ship you will have aged perhaps one year while the Earth would have aged one million years. You would have traveled to Earth's future."

I've never seen this movie, but it would be an interesting plot.

Something I've always wondered. Say you were capable of traveling at the speed of light (it is impossible now because mass expands as speed increases and to travel at the speed of light means that the object would be the size of the universe itself) and you wanted to go to one of the stars that you see in the sky. We all know that the the time it took for the light of those stars to get here, they died. But, if we could travel at the speed of light, or perhaps faster than, we should be able to arrive at those stars, however many years ago while they were still alive. Thus traveling backwards in time.

And after writing the last, it dawned on me. Because E=mc squared... if we send a typical electron near the speed of light, it should gain mass (m), therefore gaining energy (E). I wonder what the cost is of sending an electron or a neutron at the speed of light (or near it).

Ok, I've got to get back to work.

P.S. There are some theories out there right now that suggest if we could create a bubble outside of time and space, then we could send it faster than the speed of light, therefore, allowing travel back in time.

Very interesting

It appears that a Catholic Priest was the first to suggest the big bang theory, even though others are receiving the credit.

Catholic Priest Proposes New Model for Creation

Sean at 2:03 am, March 12th, 2007

It was new at the time, anyway. The model being spoken of is the Big Bang, first suggested by Father Georges-Henri Lemaître in 1927. (The expanding-universe solutions to general relativity had also been derived by Alexander Friedmann in 1922, but he hadn’t emphasized the nature of the intial singularity in such models.) Lemaître, a Belgian priest who studied at Harvard and MIT, proposed what he called the “Primeval Atom” or “Cosmic Egg” model of the universe, and derived Hubble’s law, two years before Hubble and Humason actually discovered that the universe is expanding. Einstein wasn’t all that fond of Lemaître’s idea — having been assured by his astronomer friends that the universe was static — but he encouraged Lemaître in his investigations.

All of which springs to mind because the Modern Mechanix blog has unearthed a Popular Science article from 1932 by Donald Menzel, an astronomer at Harvard, that explains Lemaître’s ideas. (The time between Hubble and Humason’s discovery and Menzel’s article is somewhat less than the time between the 1998 discovery of dark energy and Richard Panek’s New York Times Magazine article from yesterday.) Menzel’s piece does a great job of explaining the basics of the Big Bang model, long before it was given that name by Fred Hoyle. Indeed, he touches on many of the questions that still arise in a good Cosmology FAQ! For example, he emphasizes that the redshift is due to the expansion of space, not to the Doppler effect.

The case of the universe is analogous, except that the expansion, being of a three-dimensional volume, cannot be visualized. The phenomena are, however, comparable. The nebulae are not running away from us. Their recession is due to expansion of space. This may, perhaps, seem to be quibbling over terms, since it amounts to the same thing in the end. Nevertheless, the distinction is worth keeping. According to the relativity theory, there is a difference between the running away of the nebulae and expansion of the medium in which they are imbedded.

Sadly, he also appeals to the much-hated balloon analogy for the expansion of the universe, although he uses the surface of the Earth rather than the surface of a balloon; in fact, it’s a better choice. And he’s not afraid of diving into the sticky questions, like “What happened before the Bang?”

DR. LEMAITRE’S hypothesis does away with the old query as to the state of affairs before the beginning of things. Going back to the parent atom we may inquire about what happened before the cosmic explosion took place. The answer is: “Nothing.” Computation shows that space would have closed up around the massive atom and, certainly, nothing can happen where there is no room for it to happen. Time has no meaning in a perfectly static world. The age of the universe is to be reckoned from that prehistoric Fourth of July, when space came into existence. Since then, space has been continually expanding before the onrushing stars, sweeping the way for them, forming a sort of motorcycle squadron to make room for the star-procession to follow.

Like many contemporary cosmologists, Menzel is a little more definitive about this than he really should be. When asked “What happened before the Bang?”, the correct answer is really “We don’t know. According to general relativity, space and time do not exist before the Bang, so there is no such thing as ‘before.’ However, we have no right to think that general relativity is correct in that regime, so… we don’t know.” Few people are sufficiently straightforwardly honest to give that answer.

And what about the future?

SO MUCH for the present. What of the future? Einstein and the noted Dutch astronomer, Willem de Sitter, have talked of some future contraction, which might sweep up the stars along with cosmic dust and eventually bring the world back to its original state. Dr. Lemaitre thinks that such a contraction cannot occur. He prefers to believe that the whole universe was born in the flash of a cosmic sky-rocket and that it will keep expanding until the showering sparks which form the stars have burned to cinders and ashes.

We still don’t know the answer to this one, but the smart money is on Lemaître (and against Einstein, who liked his dice unloaded and his universes compact). Now that we know the universe is not only expanding but accelerating, the simplest hypothesis is that it will keep doing so. To be honest, of course — we don’t know!

Lemaître passed away in 1966, a year after Penzias and Wilson detected the microwave radiation leftover from the Primeval Atom.

I guess Gore is an idiot

From Fox News, they have a response to Gore's claim that their energy isn't bad.

First, Al Gore doesn’t purchase carbon offsets out of his own pocket and the actual economic cost, if any, to him is unknown.

The actual offset purchaser is a London-based investment firm, Generation Investment Management (GIM), that Al Gore co-founded with former Goldman Sachs executive David Blood and others in 2004.

GIM supposedly purchases carbon offsets for all 23 of its employees to cover their personal energy use, according to a March 7 CNSNews.com report. These offsets, then, would be provided to Gore more as an employee benefit, thus requiring very little sacrifice on his or his family's part.

While Gore relaxes in his posh pool house and heated pool, you should be taking shorter and colder showers, and hanging your laundry outside to dry. As Gore jets around the world in first-class comfort to hob-nob with society’s elites about his self-declared “moral imperative”, you should travel less and bike to work. You should use less electricity while Al and his wife, Tipper, use 20 times the national average. Now that’s a real carbon offset.

“Are you ready to change the way you live?” Gore literally meant you – and only you.

Rudy not a favorite of the Firefighters

At first glance, this scared me a bit. The IAFF prepared this draft and almost sent it out.

DRAFT LETTER

February 28, 2007

Dear Brothers and Sisters,

On March 14, 2007, the IAFF will host the first bi-partisan Presidential Forum of the 2008 election cycle. No other union — and very few organizations — has the credibility and respect to attract top-tier candidates from both political parties. The lineup of speakers who have agreed to participate in our Forum is truly a testament to our great union and the reputation we have built as a powerful political force and a coveted endorsement.

John Edwards, John McCain, Barack Obama, Chuck Hagel, Hillary Clinton, Chris Dodd, Joe Biden, Duncan Hunter and seven other candidates will make their case before the 1,000 delegates who will be attending the Forum and to our entire membership via same-day broadcast on our web site.

Early on, the IAFF made a decision to invite all serious candidates from both political parties — except one: former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani.

We made this decision after considerable soul-searching and close consultation with our two New York City affiliates, the Uniformed Firefighters Association Local 94 and the Uniformed Fire Officers Association Local 854, as well as our former Local 94 President and current IAFF 1st District Vice President covering New York.

The IAFF recognizes that Mayor Giuliani generally enjoys a favorable reputation as a result of his actions immediately after the tragedy of 9/11. As such, we want our affiliates and every one of our members to clearly understand the reason and rationale behind this very serious and sober decision.

Many people consider Rudy Giuliani "America's Mayor," and many of our members who don't yet know the real story, may also have a positive view of him. This letter is intended to make all of our members aware of the egregious acts Mayor Giuliani committed against our members, our fallen on 9/11, and our New York City union officers following that horrific day.

Rest assured, our exclusion of Mayor Giuliani is not about any particular contractual or policy issue or disagreement, nor is it based on his unfriendly relationship with our New York City affiliates prior to 9/11 — which we will document and explain in additional correspondence later on during the campaign. In fact, we invited several candidates with whom we have had substantial disagreement on policy issues because we feel very strongly that our members have the right to hear from all candidates, not just those who tow the IAFF line.

Regrettably, the situation with former Mayor Giuliani is very different. His actions post 9/11 rise to such an offensive and personal attack on our brother and sisterhood — and directly on our union — that the IAFF does not feel Rudy Giuliani deserves an audience of IAFF leaders and members at our own Presidential Forum.

The disrespect that he exhibited to our 343 fallen FDNY brothers, their families and our New York City IAFF leadership in the wake of that tragic day has not been forgiven or forgotten.

In November 2001, our members were continuing the painful, but necessary, task of searching Ground Zero for the remains of our fallen brothers and the thousands of innocent citizens that were killed, because precious few of those who died in the terrorist attacks had been recovered at that point.

Prior to November 2001, 101 bodies or remains of fire fighters had been recovered. And those on the horrible pile at Ground Zero believed they had just found a spot in the rubble where they would find countless more that could be given proper burial.

Nevertheless, Giuliani, with the full support of his Fire Commissioner Thomas Von Essen, decided on November 2, 2001, to sharply reduce the number of those who could search for remains at any one time. There had been as many as 300 fire fighters at a time involved in search and recovery, but Giuliani cut that number to no more than 25 who could be there at once.

In conjunction with the cut in fire fighters allowed to search, Giuliani also made a conscious decision to institute a "scoop-and-dump" operation to expedite the clean-up of Ground Zero in lieu of the more time-consuming, but respectful, process of removing debris piece by piece in hope of uncovering more remains.

Mayor Giuliani's actions meant that fire fighters and citizens who perished would either remain buried at Ground Zero forever, with no closure for families, or be removed like garbage and deposited at the Fresh Kills Landfill.

Our Local presidents at the time attempted to meet with the Mayor to stop this despicable treatment of those who perished, but he refused to even see them face-to-face.

The scoop-and-dump continued. And when hundreds of family members of the fallen joined with our affiliate leadership and members to protest Giuliani's decision, he ordered senior officers of the New York Police Department to arrest 15 of our FDNY brothers, including a number of local elected IAFF leaders.

Giuliani modified his policy after the protest because public opinion was so strongly with our members. Ultimately, he was forced to put the fire fighters back on the pile. Our protests were later proven justified as more bodies were ultimately recovered and those families given a chance for some closure and a decent burial.

Giuliani argued that the change was for our own safety, but his argument was empty and without substance. Fire fighters had been on that pile since minutes after the twin towers fell — why all of a sudden, after nearly two months working on the pile, was Giuliani concerned about fire fighter safety?

In our view, he wasn't really concerned. The fact is that the Mayor's switch to a scoop-and-dump coincided with the final removal of tens of millions of dollars of gold, silver and other assets of the Bank of Nova Scotia that were buried beneath what was once the towers. Once the money was out, Giuliani sided with the developers that opposed a lengthy recovery effort, and ordered the scoop-and-dump operation so they could proceed with redevelopment.

In the first few days immediately after the disaster, Giuliani had said he was committed to the recovery of those lost "right down to the last brick." We believed him at the time. But, what he proved with his actions is that he really meant the "last gold brick."

Giuliani crucified fire fighters after our protest and publicly stated that our members were essentially acting like babies, that they didn't have the market cornered on grief. His insensitive statements demonstrated his inability to grasp what members of the FDNY were experiencing.

What Giuliani showed is a disgraceful lack of respect for the fallen and those brothers still searching for them. He exposed our members and leaders to arrest. He valued the money and gold and wanted the site cleared before he left office at the end of 2001 more than he valued the lives and memories of those lost.

Our members deserved the right to continue with a full search for their lost brothers and other innocent victims. Proudly, as you know, the fire service has a code similar to the military, where we leave no one behind. Recovering even a piece of a turnout coat or helmet gave our FDNY brothers and sisters and the families of the fallen some small semblance of peace, something to honor. But hundreds remained entombed in Ground Zero when Giuliani gave up on them.

The fundamental lack of respect that Giuliani showed our FDNY members is unforgivable - and that's why he was not invited. Our disdain for him is not about issues or a disputed contract, it is about a visceral, personal affront to the fallen, to our union and, indeed, to every one of us who has ever risked our lives by going into a burning building to save lives and property.

We have heard from some affiliates that Giuliani's campaign is beginning to reach out to our locals, looking to build support. If you are contacted by Giuliani, Von Essen, or a representative of the Giuliani campaign, we hope you will say not just, "No," but, "Hell no." And please let the IAFF Political Affairs Department know about it by calling (202) 824-1582.

Please share this correspondence with your membership. Thank you.

Fraternally and Sincerely,

Harold A. Schaitberger, General President

Vincent J. Bollon, General Secretary-Treasurer and Past President, UFOA of NYC, Local 854

Kevin Gallagher, IAFF 1st District Vice President and Past President, UFA of NYC, Local 94

Stephen Cassidy, President, UFA of NYC, Local 94

Peter Gorman, President, UFOA of NYC, Local 854

After further review, the IAFF is well-known for its liberal ways by supporting Kerry in '04. Yet, the firefighters directly under Giuliani (NYFD) supported Bush by an alarming rate. So, the people who were there support conservative opinions while the people who weren't attack what went on that day (or they have a well-known political agenda on the issue).

Honestly, I don't know who I'm voting for in this election, but it won't be McCain. Rudy might be the best choice, but I wouldn't be able to stand that voice. I wish Newt was running.

I think I want an Auntie Anne's pretzel today.

A Democrat's plan

Why would a Democrat support a war at one point, then fight against it with all their heart at another?

Besides the bullshit that the left spews--the facts have changed and they were lied into a war (as if 9/11 never happened)--it was a popular war at one point. Most of America was pissed off that they got attacked and had so many casualties in their own country. They felt insecure and scared that day, and wanted to make sure that never happened again.

Democrats knew that they would get no where fighting a war that was supported by most of the country. They would have to bite their tongue and go along with the flow.

As most war's in the history of war go, this war will take some time. To win the election and bigger paychecks, they would need to chip away at the Republican's lead. With assistance from the media, this is accomplished by making big stinks about nothing.

Eventually, after daily reports filled with how horrible everything is going, people just began to believe that this war isn't right.

As it progressed, they released more and more fibs destroying the support to the right.

The people of America want to believe that our leaders have us on the forefront of their thoughts. We want to believe that they are doing what is best for the country, and not their pockets. That they aren't just trying to fulfill their egos.

Unfortunately, people like Kerry, who lie about their military records and won't release them to prove otherwise. Who went on protests of the war to jump start his political career. People like Obama who invest in companies, and then make it a political argument for the government to give them more money (God forbid this had been Cheney). The Clinton's, who are only matched by the Kennedy's when it comes to running a dirty presidency. The list goes on.

These people have shown time and time again that they don't care about the country, they only care about themselves. They will do anything, like displaying compassion, to increase their power. They have relied on Americans forgetting the feeling they had on 9/11 to get into power.

It is sick that the left would put our soldiers' safety at risk to win elections, but that is what they are doing. It is even worse that this clear message isn't getting across to the people.

Brilliant

South Korea to prevent Terminator scenario. My solution is to require all robots to have a six foot cable to prevent them from chasing us if they turn on us.

Snowing in D.C.

It started this morning and the streets were pretty much covered up. It stopped and the streets just became wet. But now it is snowing again.

Pretty cool looking out the window from my spacious office on the ninth floor at the snow. Maybe some day you, too, will know what it is like to have a job, Paul. And not one painting the railings at the Rec.

I've started working

So, not too many posts will be coming from me. If something interesting pops up during the day and I have time, I will say something, but that won't be too often, I believe. Will still read Paul's bull shit, and hopefully Trev will keep writing stuff.

Interesting Read on String Theory

I love this stuff.

Chapter One

The smell of coffee wakes him up as it does every morning. He isn't sure how she does it because he considers himself a morning person, too. Crandacela wakes up every morning before the sun rises, and prepares breakfast for the entire family. Usually nothing special, just coffee for her and he, eggs and toast for the kids. Although he doesn't say it too often, Big Foot, as the tribe refers to him, thinks about how much his family means to him every morning.

After a quick shower and scrubbing of the fangs, he heads down stairs to enjoy the morning with his wife. Unfortunately, his cubs don't wake up till after he leaves. Big Foot has a serious job with major responsibilities. He must defend his Sasquatchian brethren of Gigantopithecus, and all existence for that matter, from the feared Shadow People. His special skills and understanding of the game have made him the top special agent in the Gigantopithecus Bureau of Investigation.

"Good morning Crandy," Big Foot says with a kiss.

"Hey, good morning Tim. I made you the Yeti blend of coffee that you like so much."

"It's about time. I figured I had complained enough.

"Crandy, have you seen today's paper? I heard Paul Clark is going to be in it talking about the concern over the stock market," Grumbling, "or his understanding of it, at least."

Crandacela has always hated that grumble. It is Tim's way of declaring who he thinks are idiots.

"I haven't picked it up yet. Your Dodo eggs are about done. Why don't you go out and get it, and by the time you get back in here, you'll have a plate full of cheesy Dodo.

"And speaking about Paul, all you do is get hot and bothered when you read something that jerk-off says. You taught that boy everything that made him successful. His change in personality shouldn't concern you."

Tim used stock market trading as a cover for his secret identity. He really enjoyed his cover because it gave him the opportunity to provide his family with great gifts on special occasions. He could easily buy a bigger house in a better neighborhood if he choose to, but Tim thought it better to keep a low profile for now.

Tim got up to get the paper when the phone rang. This phone was the emergency phone. Tim had never heard it ring before. His heart started to race as he headed towards the phone stand.

As he answered the phone, Tim got cut off by a familiar voice.

"What can I do for you Mister President?"

So Easy a Caveman Can Do It

Gotta say this is one of the worst decisions of all time.

In other news, Islam gets a huge boost.

In Robtopia, all ideas for tv shows run through me, as I have the best taste in television. A show about cavemen struggling through racism would not make the cut.

Michael Jackson wouldn't be allowed, either, as he is always followed by Paul Clark, who is forbidden from Robtopia.

527 Swift Boat peeps got fined

The FEC fined these people for supposedly undermining John Kerry's election. What exactly did they do wrong? Basically, the FEC decided that this was bad and created new law by fining them. The McCain-Feingold legislation is unclear on it's definitions, so the FEC is using it to their advantage.

I don't know enough about the FEC and their political beliefs, but there is no way the republicans are the only side guilty of evil campaigns.

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And as National Geographic points out, Mars is also facing global warming. Robtopia has yet to invade Mars, so why is this happening? We all know only humans cause global warming.

Some hotties robbed a bank in GA

I'd bust'em up, dig'em out, and send'em on.

Two babes robbed a Bank of America in Georgia.


Just thinking... but could you say, "I just got robbed," after pocketing like $20k. And then point the "suspects" out in the camera. Hmmm, I think I'm going to apply at a bank.

Close up on Andromeda

The nearest galaxy to our own Milky Way, and this is the closest, cleanest picture we can get of it. Pretty far away. Robtopia has been working on invading Andromeda for its fossil fuels and, besides, that is what we do. Murder other civilizations.

ET to solve Global Warming

Ya know, I can't believe I didn't think of this. As close as I am with Big Foot, I wouldn't be surprised to find out that he can solve the problem.

A Canadian genius requests the world to release all technology that they discovered from da aliens. He said that in order to travel all that distance, they would have to have something that is efficient and can eliminate a lot of fossil fuel usage. Duh. Oh, and this guy was a former defense minister for CAN.

This got me thinking, if we were on Robtopia, all the aliens would come to Robtopia as a vacation spot. We would be alien friendly (not to be confused with illegal aliens, because I hate them). There would be no need for Will Smith to wear a black suit because there would be no hiding from our people.

In fact, some revisions from my original layout of Robtopia... a quarter of the planet used for technology and science (mainly for militaristic purposes), half for human population, and the last quarter for vacation spots. Put in some water fronts that can't be owned, just rented. Hmmm, actually that would be hard to figure out, so I don't know how I would do it. Would I allow illegal aliens come in just so they can work the vacation spots? Maybe I can import me some French. They deserve bitch work. And considering I am going to nuke their home land, they will be looking for a new place to live.

As soon as our military is sufficient enough, we will then invade all places on earth I don't like. No plans of killing all citizens, just kill the evil ones. Who am I kidding, you caught me. The plan IS to kill all of the inhabitants of those countries. Eventually, earth will become Robtopia's waste land. That is where we will put the trash.

And Vice Prez Big Foot will personally take care of the law. No tolerance. You break the law, you die. Even if it is as simple as stealing a candy bar. And even if you are four years old. Dead. And B.F. don't fuck around. He is known for eating his victims... alive.

I will also bring back Gladiator stuff. People will have to fight lions and shit. But they aren't fighting for their freedom, just so they can stay alive a little bit longer. I figure eventually, they will tire and the lion will win.

Robtopia will also consist of a very large lion breeding center. Cloning might be easier, so we will go with that. Clone me some lions and have them attack criminals. I'z clone'em up, send'em out, and watch'em kill. Thats how I do.

McCain Running for President

Sen. John McCain announced he will run for president in 2008, but won't make it official till April. I don't know what is so special about April. It does have a pretty name. In fact, if I were to rate the months by name-prettiness, April would have an 88 (of course, the scale is to 100). March and June are towards the bottom of the pack in prettiness. Probably 37 and 46 respectively.

I tried typing up about three different made up story lines about McCain and they sucked, so I will leave you with nothing.