Meet A Wacko Out There

My girlfriend is looking for a roommate to take over one of the rooms in her current apartment. Here’s one of the replies.

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The Monster

I absolutely love the original black and white versions of the monster movies and this one’s another favorite. Here’s the monster from the 1931 classic, Frankenstein. I’ve also put up on the top right of the page a classic sound clip from whatever film is being displayed at the time.

Trojans Defeat Golden Bears

My god. That last drive by Cal was too close for comfort, but they did it. Number 1 USC took down number 7 Cal, 23-17 and will most likely remain the number 1 team in the country. Now time to bring on the Sun Devils October 16th. Go Trojans!

2nd Presidential Debate Afterthoughts

When watching something like the debates on TV, you have to choose what station to watch it on since it’s on multiple ones. Last night I chose to watch it on CNN. CNN did something that I thought was kind of interesting at first. They had an audience of “undecided” voters all watch the debate together. The host of that audience then started to question them after the debate was over and it seemed for the most part that they were all impressed with Bush enough to the point where they decided on him. In fact, all but about two people in the audience of maybe twenty people said this debate made them finalize their decisions. Scripted maybe? Which station do you guys choose to watch your debates?

Anyway, from reading around it looks pretty split as to who “won” last night. I’m still thinking Kerry. Bush was more comfortable, more coherent, and more in control of himself considering the first debate. Still, he just didn’t answer the questions and kept spouting out one of his many scripted speeches. Kerry was simply more responsive to the questions with an occasional tangent. I can’t remember where I read it, but it was a good line so I’ll use it here. Bush looked like the weak candidate going up against a strong president.

2nd Presidential Debate

7:00pm – I’m currently watching the second Presidential debate. Wish I was smart enough to blog the thing, but the truth is I need time to formulate my thoughts and get them into type. Not fast enough to write it out. What can I say so far? Well, that carpet is real quite an annoying color.

7:05pm – Seems like Bush is a little more on point than he was in the first debate. Is it me or are there like 4 non-white people in the audience?

7:08pm – I came in late here. What are they writing down on those notepads? I’ll bet ya Bush is playing tic-tac-toe with himself. I’ll bet ya anything he’s losing too.

7:11pm – Alright. What the hell? Where are my Simpsons? I want to watch The Simpson.

7:12pm – Oh my god. It’s on everywhere. Every station! (crawled up in a corner with my laptop)

7: 20pm – Alright alright! I’ll watch.

7:33pm – Closing statements already? I missed too much. Anyone know where I can get a video stream of it somewhere? I guess I could just wait until they post the audio on the iTunes Music Store. One thing I could say is this one seemed closer to the definition of a “debate” unlike the first one. They were a little more confrontational than the first. If you had to pick a winner, my initial though would be Kerry. He was definitely more on the offense, just constantly attacking Bush and offering real solutions. Bush seemed like he had to keep explaining himself and his actions. He was better, but still very defensive. I think for the third debate, they should put on those gigantic foam boxing gloves and have them go at it on a log over a water tank filled with sharks… sharks with freakin’ laser beams on their heads.

No WMDs!?!

BBC News: “President Bush conceded that much of the intelligence was ‘wrong’ and that this required an explanation. But he insisted that the report showed the former Iraqi leader was a threat because he was trying to undermine international sanctions. ‘He was doing so with the intent of restarting his weapons programme once the world looked away,’ the president said.”

The Bush administration finally clearly admitted today that there were no WMDs in Iraq, but apparently invading their country was still ok because Hussein was thinking about restarting his weapons program. Attacking another country and coming up with your excuses later doesn’t fly if you ask me. Oh and neither does starting a war over a thought crime. Alright, back to my telescreen.

Reaction To The Report: If We Only Waited

In quotes: Iraq report reaction – BBC News: Hans Blix, former chief UN weapons inspector: “Had we had a few months more (of inspections before the war), we would have been able to tell both the CIA and others that there were no weapons of mass destruction (at) all the sites that they had given to us.”

I guess really if we only waited, the Bush administration would have just found another false excuse in order to proceed. Check out some of the other quotes on that page.