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State of the Union

... Oh look,

Seems good.

Nuf' said.

The President Is Right

Yes, I said it. What are you going to do about it, call me wrong? Oooh I am scared now. You calling me wrong with all your rightness?... with all your pullout now, it hurts to much.

Give me a break.

Adding more troops UNDER THE CONDITIONS OUTLINED BY THE PRESIDENT, and all those fancy slides he didn't show off (but they're there you just have to search for them and no I am not joking), will win Iraq, if that's the term that suites you.

However, in all honesty, it's seems a bit dreamy to think that the rebel-insurgent-terrorists will lay down their arms and sing cum-baye-ya anytime soon just because the Yankees are coming. But the way the plan is laid out, and yes there is a plan this time which should make you happy, no matter what the rebel-insurgent-terrorists posture is... we can crush them.

Even more dreamy is to think that we will stick to the realistic, level headed plan that is adopted by the President's Administration; because hey, when does anybody ever stick to the level headed plan? Haven't you ever watched a movie?

Ironic, I am. Hypocritical, I am. Wise, I am. To admit so, yes; wise, I am.

Apple Rules Us All

Apple is quite literally as I write announcing it's iPhone which it will call as such no matter the other product out there with that name.

The phone will have:
- Multi-Touch, finger use, screen
- It will be a phone
- Internet Communicator (whatever that means)
- Ipod, widescreen video
- It runs OS X, damn OS X
- 2 megapixel camera
- A headset jack, 3.5mm, SIM tray, and a sleep-wake switch. The bottom, we've got a speaker, mic input, and an iPod connector.
- 3 advanced sensors. It's got a proximity sensor, bring the iPhone to your ear and your display shuts off and toushccreen shuts down. Ambient light sensor -- adjusts brightness, saves power. Third thing is an accellerometer, it can tell whether you're in landscape and portrait.
- 8GB
- starting the power on, and has a gesture. Unlocks the phone by sliding finger across
- and more I'm sure...
- quad-band GSM + EDGE phone, no 3G
- WiFi and Bluetooth 2.0
- Just like email you can go directly to the voicemails that interest you
- Speakerphone
- Conference Calling
- QWERTY keyboard on screen
- Multiple SMS conversations
- Rich HTML emails on iPhone
- Works with any IMAMP or POP3 email service
- Safari running
- Have Google Maps
- Widgets capability
- Connects to the internet with WiFi or EDGE, seemlessly...
- Yahoo will offer free push-IMAP email to iPhone customers
- iPhone parses out phone numbers, they're in blue and one can just call this place, from an email
- Can send an email and be on the phone at the same time.
- 5 hours of battery of talk time, video, and browsing, 16 hours of audio playback

Apple and Google Teamed Up... Like now they are friends "merging without actually merging," as the Google CEO said. Sane with Apple and Yahoo.

Pricing:
- 4GB model at $499
- 8GB model at $599

Shipping in June.

Unfortunaly it's only for cingular, so I'll never be buying one, but thanks apple for letting me look at it :P

Into the annals of history this post goes.

Transcript:

In the days ahead a critical decision will be made in our nations Iraq War policy. This decision is expected by many to be an increase in America’s presence on the ground in Iraq. Whitehouse officials are privately telling reporters that this military increase will only be around 20,000 more troops and no more then 30,000.

But to what end does this means address?

President Bush, not being the most articulate of fellows, has never clearly defined a goal in the Iraq War. A careful (or even careless) study of America’s past wars shows that every single one had an end. In Vietnam and Korea the means to get there was insufficient. In the First Gulf War the end was allowed to remain. And now today in this the Second Gulf War what is the end? And above all else… prove it.

What I mean to say is that if our end is to provide a secure Iraq then what “exactly” have we done to achieve that? I would surmise an argument to be that we sent troops there to route out the insurgents. To me that’s like saying you peeled and orange. But the question is did you eat it? Today Iraq stands less “secure” then it did when Saddam was in power.

So, either our end is not to have a secure Iraq or we just haven’t met such an end (therein our means being incorrect). Let us examine the later, why haven’t we met such an end at this time? Now if the President and all the President’s men believe that sending more troops will make Iraq secure. Then the question is what those extra troops will do, “exactly do,” that the present soldiers haven’t already done. And that’s a pretty legitimate question that I don’t think anybody has an “intelligent answer” too.

However we can re-examine our secure Iraq “end,” if you will, and state that our end is to instead stand up and support Iraqi forces to secure Iraq for themselves. If this is the end then one should ask, what have been doing for the past 4 or so years? And how will adding 20,000 more troops achieve this end? It may in my opinion alleviate some of the pressure on the current troops on the ground in Iraq, but then again I question this own argument because if the end is just to “support” the Iraqi forces then there shouldn’t be much “pressure.”

If a teacher’s job is too ultimately support the student, in every way the teacher knows how, then ultimately the pressure on getting a good grade wrests on my shoulders. The teacher just needs to do their job. To get back to Iraq, either we aren’t doing our job or the Iraqi forces are incompetent. If we aren’t doing our job then the means to the end is the problem, however if the Iraqi forces are incompetent then the end is broken and the means might as well be non-existent.

Obviously if American citizens’ can’t even point their collective finger at the same end then something is wrong; furthermore if that isn’t ‘obvious’ you should re-evaluate the term democracy. The President in a few days will come out with a new Iraq War strategery. However what he, other politicians, and Generals don’t understand is that American’s didn’t volunteer to go and fight as some pawns in a badly set chess game. And yes it is after all an all volunteer army. They have volunteered to ultimately die, if need be, for their country and what exactly have they died for so far? To secure Iraq? To help Iraqi’s secure Iraq? To establish a functioning government in Iraq? To unite Iraq? To stop sectarian killing? To build up Iraq’s infrastructure? To start up Iraq’s economy? What exactly have they fought for? It’s easy to say they fought and died for their country and leave it be at that noble thing. But when one asks what exactly did they die fight for? One can hardly respond with securing America…

Saddam Hussein Al-WhoGivesACrap Is Dead

I grew up watching the first war with this guy. I grew watching the pictures of the dead Kurds. I grew up watching the oil fires. And now a man who started 3 regional wars is dead.

His death while largely inconsequential strikes a certain cord in the hearts of millions of people around the world and it is that cord that vibrates strong enough to make the most consequential event in 2006.

Here are pictures of him heading into the gallows:

Neglect

It's a sad day when one neglects another as I have neglected you... oh you.... my little blog.

In anycase, I can't find words to share anymore. I feel I have shared enough, enough of who I am, because afterall that's what this blog was for. It was to act as a log for history to look back on and say that's what he stood for. Well guess what this is what I stand for.

I don't know what the future will hold for this little thing here. I might jump onto something better as time progresses. I might come back and start furiously stamping out an ideological message to the masses (or to the few).

Ney, I probably will comeback and it's just a matter of time.

However until that time comes, and by the length between those posts that still cling to the front page of my blog... these halls of the blogsphere will be silent for a while. Good luck and good night.