Politics-Smolitics: Okay Arnold, Stop Lying To Yourself

Well our favorite govenor and Terminator Arnold Schwarzenegger has let his adoring public know that he does not have presidental dreams. This is a lie. I can say that with confidence. He would love to be the most powerful man in the country. Look at the roles he plays. He is the Terminator and he is not obsolete. He has married into one of the political powerhouse families. He became governor of California which Ronald Regan showed us is almost a sure ticket to office. He managed to get elected by a primarily democratic state. I think he could become president. I think people would elect him just to see what he would do. I would. I know that is stupid. We could always get rid of him if he messed up too bad. The CIA would kill him or something like that. The only thing is, I think no matter what, the American people, after the Bush administration would be too afraid of some type of Sadam Hussein trying to take over our country and turn it into a dictatorship to elect an immigrant into office. BUT! Then again that is funny considering our country's humble beginings of immgrants and theft (from the natives that is).

WildStyle: Come On! Give Those Poor Celebrities a Break

The Oscars, always a great event to find out exactly what movie was the best of the year. Unfortunately I believe this to be based on less of a great performance many times to who is all the buzz about. But the real interest at the Oscars is what people are wearing. While all those fancy dresses are great, I actually prefer what people call the 'Worst Dressed' category. I love to see what celeb is willing to go out there and be different. A lot of what people call mistakes sometimes are purposeful I think, like that flashback from the 70's tux Johnny Depp was wearing. I think that was great. Robin Williams came out looking like Bono meets Patch Adams. But that's okay. I think once you're a household name, you have the right to wear whatever the hell you want to. I think it's better to shoot for the worst dressed category than the best dressed. I mean at least in the worst dressed people don't take you so seriously. Poor Meg Ryan, they had the nerve to make fun of her. I LOVE HER! She's so cute and refreshing. Every time I see "You've Got Mail" I WISH I was like that. Of course that is just a character but I love those expressions :) She seems like she'd be nice in real life whereas, I am not nice in real live!

I've never been around the Oscar crowd but I've been around the Emmy crowd and it's totally cool. I was a star struck young adult then so please excuse me. Plus, when one first moves to California and finds that it's perfectly normal to meet Sting in a coffee shop (that was my best buddy Sergio), it is something of an awesome experience. I never met Tom Hanks who I am still waiting to get divorced because I AM his true love, but that is a 10-year love story that is still waiting on a romantic comedy ending. I have met so many famous people since I've been to California. Most of them in one sitting! I was sitting next to a rap star and talking to him for most of a basketball game and I didn't even know who he was. My cousin and I got to meet all sorts of people like Duane Martin, Cedric the Entertainer, Dr. Dre, and many more people. But oh right, the Emmys. I was over with the crowd and Donald Faison (Clueless, NBC's Scrubs) ran over and gave all of us a hug. It's cool to get caught up in that stuff sometimes but in my older age (26 - 16 days until the ripe old age of 27) I only enjoy it in passing. Though my preoccupation with Sara Jessica Parker's fashion sense and television lifestyle will always be my idea of Heaven on Earth.

Oh, and congrats on Jamie Foxx's Oscar! He deserved that one! I saw Ray and I absolutely loved it. But that's the way it goes. If you want to win an Oscar, star in a movie that is about a famous person who struggled with sex and drugs and learns a great lesson at the end. If you want to win Best supporting actress/actor, star in a film that is just one devastation after another! Unfortunately it doesn't make you a star when you struggle with drugs and sex in the world I live in!

Links:
2005 Superficial Oscar Coverage by People Magazine*

*Geez, someone tell People magazine that these aren't real people LOL!

Politics-Smolitics: Travel Advisories

Now this is very interesting. Quite a while ago I came across the site that has travel warnings for various countries that are considered a threat. Now the site I found before I, wasn't able to again. It had many different countries and very interesting advisories. Things like you may be mugged or something to that affect, but then of course I was just curious about what they had to say about Iraq. The information is not surprising given the headlines we see every week, but the interesting thing is, people are actually traveling to this place! Now of course, there are people working there and hey, I gotta tell you, the money is good. I wonder why! I even applied for a job with Parson over there. Didn't get it. I guess my destiny wasn't to be captured and decapitated before my 27th birthday, oh, but there's still time. All jokes aside, I think the kind of civilians that actually go over there are the same people that get admitted to the hospital to treat broken necks and fractured skulls because of falling off a mountain or losing a game of chicken. They may be idiots but they are rich idiots (and if they are not rich, what the heck are they doing over there). This is all coming from someone with a high sense of self-preservation though so it is a bit jaded. Perhaps there is a religious cause or something like that. I think those sorts of thing, however, are like biking up a vertical cliff. You may actually get some where with harnesses and such but what good did it do really? For my purposes, I am glad Parson's did not even call me for an interview.

By the way, here is the travel advisory for Iraq: (My question is, was this place always that bad? I mean even in Biblical times people were always fighting and stealing wives)


This Travel Warning updates information on the use of civilian aircraft to arrive in or depart from Iraq, security conditions and to reiterate the dangers of road travel within Iraq. This supersedes the Travel Warning of September 17, 2004.

The Department of State continues to strongly warn U.S. citizens against travel to Iraq, which remains very dangerous. Remnants of the former Baath regime, transnational terrorists, and criminal elements remain active. Attacks against military and civilian targets throughout Iraq continue. Targets include hotels, restaurants, police stations, checkpoints, foreign diplomatic missions, and international organizations and other locations with expatriate personnel. These attacks have resulted in deaths and injuries of American citizens, including those doing humanitarian work. In addition, there have been planned and random killings, as well as extortions and kidnappings. U.S. citizens have been kidnapped and several were subsequently murdered by terrorists in Iraq. U.S. citizens and other foreigners continue to be targeted by insurgent groups for kidnapping and murder. Military operations continue. There are daily attacks against Multinational Forces - Iraq (MNF-I) throughout the country.

There is credible information that terrorists are targeting civil aviation. Civilian and military aircraft arriving in and departing from Baghdad International Airport have been subjected to small arms and missiles. Civilian aircraft do not generally possess systems, such as those found on military aircraft, capable of defeating man-portable, surface-to-air missiles (MANPADS). Anyone choosing to utilize civilian aircraft to enter or depart Iraq should be aware of this potential threat, as well as the extremely high risk to road transportation described below. Official U.S. Government (USG) personnel are strongly encouraged to use U.S. military or other USG aircraft when entering and departing Iraq due to concerns about security of civilian aircraft servicing Iraq. Currently, USG personnel are only authorized to travel commercially on Royal Jordanian Airlines.

All vehicular travel in Iraq is extremely dangerous. There have been numerous attacks on civilian vehicles, as well as military convoys. Attacks occur throughout the day, but travel at night is exceptionally dangerous. Travel in or through Ramadi and Fallujah, travel between al-Hillah and Baghdad, and travel between the International Zone and Baghdad International Airport is particularly dangerous. Occasionally, U.S. Government personnel are prohibited from traveling to select areas depending on prevailing security conditions. There continues to be heavy use of Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs) and/or mines on roads, particularly in plastic bags, soda cans, and dead animals. Grenades and explosives have been thrown into vehicles from overpasses, particularly in crowded areas. Travel should be undertaken only when absolutely necessary and with the appropriate security.

The U.S. Embassy is located in the International Zone. The Embassy can provide only limited emergency services to U.S. citizens in Iraq. At present travel to and from the International Zone is extremely limited. The U.S. Embassy does not provide visa services to the general public. American citizens who choose to visit or reside in Iraq despite this Travel Warning are urged to pay close attention to their personal security, avoid crowds, especially rallies or demonstrations and to inform the U.S. Embassy of their presence in Iraq. All Americans in Baghdad are strongly encouraged to register with the Embassy at the following website : https://travelregistration.state.gov/ibrs/home.asp.


Don't plan your holidays in Fallujah. But incase you thought going to an exotic location like Kenya would only have hazards like Rhino blugeoning and Lion mauling, think again, apparently terrorists who hate Americans (and our allies) are springing up all over the globe making the most desirable travel destination third world countries like Hawaii (Just kidding, that's an inside joke for my twin sister Adrienne!).

Here is the Travel advisory site so that you don't go straying into dangerous territory on the count of ignorance: Save Yourselves!

Just a thought, it seems like many of our enemies come from Muslim countries. Maybe it's just my imagination. Just don't go trustin' them Canadians either!

Links:
El Travel Departmento

Urusaii! Mango-Chan!!

Happy Traveling!

Whatever: You Probably Think I'm Dead but. . .

I've been under the weather, despite that, my captors think it is necessary for me to continue my normal house hold duties :( Anyhoo, between caring for a bunch of crazy people, playing Star Wars KoTOR 2, doing some computer rendering, and suffering miserably with an ulcer (HMMMM HMMMM. . . I wonder what the cause is?!?!?!), I have neglected Mango-Chan. I confess I am a loser, but I place the blame solely on Von_John who promised me to actually write for Mango-Chan. Von_John. . . YOU'RE FIRED! Here's the link to the Manga that I drew and colored - photoshop:

URUSAII!!

Let me know what you think. It was my first attempt!

Whatever: Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic Damn You!

Well I haven't posted in an eon and it's all the fault of this totally bad ass game, Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic. You know, this game is addictive and it's FUN! I was playing it night and day until I finally beat it. I hardly ever beat games. I lose interest about a third ofthe way through. So imagine my surprize when I finally got to the last level at 4 this morning. I defeated Malak in the only way that seemed to work for me. I'd tried the online advice but it didn't work. I would use my Force Storm against him and then take off running. Doing this about 10 or 11 times will work. I mean my Sith character was about up to level 20 already, but Malak, he was bad ass. He was awesome. I would throw grenades at him and he would jump and attack to right where I was. So grenades were a waist of time. A light saber battle proved futile and I guess that's because I invested so many points in dark force powers which by far through out the game are the most helpful. Maybe some of those light ones would have helped but my way seemed to work well. This game is awesome. . . now I have to get the sequel which I promised myself I wouldn't get until I beat the first one. . . besides that it wasn't my xbox and I am not getting it for Mac. I don't have enough ram. Boohoo. So we'll see. Maybe I'll have the game before I have an xbox. But I can't afford it right now. Ernest is barking at me now. Gotta go.

Whatever: It's 2005, Where All the Flyin' Cars At? Part 1

When I was in first grade, if you'd have asked me what the year 2000 would look like, I would have told you it would look like flying cars, people wearing shiny suits, something like the Jetsons. But here we are in 2005 and I see not a single flying car on my traverses to the grocery store. There are helicopters and and aeroplanes, but the common everyday person does not use these things everyday. I saw autoweekly at the begining of the year. There are always these wonderful concept cars. Doo they ever come out with a car that looks like that though? No! By the time the car hits the market it's modeled to look as boring as cars of the early nineties.

If the ideas are out there, why don't we have concept cars? My feelings are this, the people who drive the car buying market are a bunch of elderly women who only use their cars for the 10 minute drive to church on Sundays and never go above 20 miles an hour. While I will be in this catagory one day, car companies have decided that if it is took freaky for these women they can't do it. If they go out and invest in a line of wild cars, other car companies that do not do it will get all the sales from these old women.

There can be only one solution to the problem. All the top executives and car designers must get together and decide to put a stop to boring car production. That is the only way to solve this problem that is keeping us in the 90s. If the car dealers could do this, our futuristic problems would be solved.

I don't see a way to solve the clothing problem. Fashion designers are only focused on the ultra rich. Kmart shoppers will be stuck in the 70s indefinitely.

Grandmothers will just have to be seen in the hotest flying cars and like it.

Urusai! Mango-Chan!!

News@11: KPP turns 1!!!

Here's a big happy birthday to the cutest baby in cyberspace and also a happy birthday to his mother, a woman who finds so much joy at just the thought of him! Happy birthday you guys. And good luck in the years to come.

News@11: No Good Deed Goes Unpunished

Just when you thought it was safe to be kind to someone, two young girls discover they should just keep their cookies to themselves. What a cut down. I suppose Taylor Ostergaard, 17 and Lindsey Jo Zellitte, 18 will think twice next time they decide to do something nice. Just incase you don't want to waste the time following the link, here is a break down of the story:

Ostergaard and Zellitte decide to bake cookies for their neighbors and leave them on their porches as a little surprise. This is a case of 'Don't let your right hand know what your left hand is doing,' i.e. it's more rewarding to do something for someone and not get praised for it. So the girls leave the cookies on their neighbors' doorsteps at night, ring the doorbell, and run away. . . behavior that would be much more suited towards pranksters and schizophrenic Jehovah’s witnesses, but alas, they are only kids. So they leave the cookies. Myself personally, though I love cookies, would never bother eating cookies I found on the ground, unless perhaps I picked up the plate as I saw the girls running for cover. Any number of germs or bugs could have crept onto them before I got to them. Well, instead of just discovering the cookies and throwing them away like a good citizen of world of paranoia we live in, she, Wanita Young, decided to go and have a heart attack, or close to it.

A judge faults the girls for her near death experience and they are left paying $871.70 in hospital bills plus an additional $39 in court costs. My opinion, though it may mean little is that, Young was probably already knocking on deaths door and was just waiting for an opportune moment to crash. So here these girls come along and leave cookies for this woman out of the kindness of their hearts, Wanita thinks, I can say I thought they were terrorists, and she decides now is a good time to have an episode, I've been needing that bypass.

Here is what this writer has to say: Stay away from good deeds, they only lead to trouble. I'd be wrong if I said that without stating that this is in no way a moral attitude and that one woman's idiotic response to kindness should not devalue every good deed you do. But better to be safe than sorry.

Links:
Aol.com

Urusaii!! Mango-Chan!!

Idiot Box: Shows You Never Get Tired Of

I'm sittin' here watching TV wondering what else I should write about. After flipping a couple of channels and getting pissed that Adult Swim isn't on Fridays, I finally settled on Animal Planet. Animal shows are interesting sometimes but the only two that hold my attention are The Jeff Corwin Experience (he's hilarious) and Croc Files. Steve Erwin is an amazing guy. Sure everyone thinks he's sort of crazy but really, he knows his stuff. Someone once gave me his biography. I am watching an episode about his dog Sui. They think she has some kind of fluid on her brain. Poor thing. This is an ultra boring post but they are going on about how she is getting worse. She is a smart dog and always at Steve's side. I hope she makes it through. I think about my little Ernest. He is so darling.

I never get tired of watching the Croc Hunter. In fact whenever I am looking for something to watch besides Cartoon Network, which is rare, it's always on. The episodes I love are with Terri Erwin. It's awesome the way she is in the same field as Steve, or simular one anyway. I believe she is a herpatologist.

They say things are getting worse for Sui. She is suffering from old age as well as something starting to look like a tumor. Oh, they say she has cancer. Poor doggie. I know Steve is going to be very sad. Here he comes. Awe, they show his little girl. She's huge! Oh, he loves her. She loves him. As soon as they woke her up and Steve was standing there, her tail starts wagging like crazy. Steve is trying to encourage his daughter on being strong for Sui. It seems like they would put her down but I have always disagreed with that. He is sleeping with her. Sweet. Sui died died in her sleep. Oh! How sad.

Now they are showing clips of them together. Ok, this is a silly post but I felt like talking about that. She is an ugly dog but in her own way just as sweet as anything. Ow, he is crying. Sad.

::Tears::

Well I am going to turn the Idiot Box off now. Nothing on tonight I want to see. Will try again Saturday. . . well it is Saturday, I mean Saturday night!

Urusai!! Mango-Chan!!

Politics-Smolitics(or Religion-Smeligon): Islam is Growing?!?!?

As I was doing research for the article post Islam Extremists Get Dirty I encountered various sites that all agreed that the Nation of Islam is growing at a rate of 3% per year. Not only that it is growing but that it is growing in the US! This perplexes the hell out of me. Surely these people are not won over by the obligations of that religon. The more I looked, the more rules I found. I even found a site discussing how you should engage in marital relations. . . and for us heathens out there, why you shouldn't engage in marital relations until you're married.

The thing that makes this so confusing is that Americans of all people hate rules. All religions have some rules but most Americans follow Christianity which only follows 10 rules and if you got into it deeper you could even say it follows only 1. The country was founded on the fact that the other religons had too many rules! Christianity seems like the right religon for Americans. Other religons have you turning into toads if you aren't good in a previous life. Of all the religons, Islam seems like the last place for Americans to flock.

Americans don't want anyone telling them to dress modestly or wash after sex. But yet, there it is, Americans are becoming Muslims. After thinking about it for a while I discovered a key element in American idealism. . . Rebellion.

Americans are rebellious fighters. Now not all Americans, infact not most Americans, but then, not most Americans are converting. Americans have always been fighters, either they are the patriotic, 'for the cause' fighters or they are the 'we don't believe in the cause so stop fighting' fighters. Yes, even the hippies were fighters, especially the hippies.

I think that these people converting to Islam are first and foremost rebels. Now I will probably get flamed for saying something like that but oh well. . . I've got nothing to lose. These people believe in the underdog and a lot of time they feel they are the underdog, like we all are.

I also think Americans are lacking a fight. Back during WWII, people had to rally together collecting alluminum and Snickers bars. In Vietnam, there were the anti-War groups. They were also anti-everything except sex, drugs, and rock n' roll. Then something happened, the world, as far as Americans were concerned, was at peace. Any conflicts involving our country were minor and hardly involved the average person on a large scale.

I remember Desert Storm. Who doesn't. It was the first war of my generation and I hardly knew or cared what was going on. The 'War on Terror' is something of a larger scale desert storm. It has brought to a head all those feelings of deprivation that my generation feels about having a cause. If you are a republican you are the big bad evil, if you are a democrat you are a drug using hippie, if you are with the green party, you are wasting a vote. As far as the Nation of Islam goes, they represent the ultimate in rebellion against 'The Man' and nobody wants to be against 'The Man' more than Americans. I am sure I will lose a reader or two but I am not so arrogant as to think people actually read the crap I write.

Urusaii!! Mango-Chan!!

News@11: Islamic Extremists Get Dirty

While I am in a state of wishy-washyness over the war on terror I do think the military tactics of Islamic extremists, Al Mujahedeen Brigade are a little bizzare. When a soldier named Cody entered entered Iraq he probably didn't expect to be captured by an extremist group and held at gun point. John Adam is a young guy and pretty good looking too. . . in fact probably a little too good looking to have been in Bagdad.

I remember as I was working selling computers I met a man who was still in his fatigues just arriving back to California after having been in Iraq. This man was a computer technician of some sort, not even general infantry. As I was talking to him he seemed like a paranoid schizophrenic. He kept looking behind his back. His skin was awful and dry. His eyes looked tired and this guy looked like someone who often worked 80 hour weeks standing up. This is how I imagine a person looking after even a week in Iraq.

Well John Adam, we can't fault him for his good looks, or can we? Cnn.com says the soldier that is being held by Islamic Extremist may very well be just a hoax. See for yourself how Dragon Models USA's own Special Ops Cody is playing his part in the war on terror.

The interesting part is that I couldn't find another Special Ops Cody besides the ones on the CNN.com site that were black. I am wondering. . . is Special Ops Cody a real soldier that has been purposely forgotten because he's black?? Who knows.

Poor guy, in his honor I created this banner:



Please proudly display this banner on your site if you would like to help us in supporting Special Ops Cody and his release from the Islamic Extremists, Al Mujahedeen Brigade.

At least Al Mujahedeen Brigade aren't trying to make sex bomb. That would have been some hilarious video footage though. Don't worry, the page (Fox News) is not graphic but it's hilarious.

Links:
CNN
Dragon Models
Fox News

This reporter could not find any info on Islamic Extremist sites nor a site for Al Mujahedeen Brigade. Although I never have been able to find any sites that had that terroristic stuff on it. Isn't it amazing that these people are running around in galabiyyas and living in huts but they have websites with streaming video footage.

Urusaii!! Mango-Chan!!