As for me? Where do i stand? Well, to be honest I kinda like the A-bomb and wish we could drop more.

Well, maybe not the really big ones, at least not for everyday use, but just the regular type. You know, they only flatten one city at a time. In fact, I think if we had just used them a couple of years ago we could have stopped this bloody war in Iraq and started on the bigger business of building their capitalist democracy. Like when the people in Basra and Fallujah were acting up, all into the terrorists and stuff, we could have just used their cities as examples. Flatten those two insurgent bases and the whole country would have been ripe for our democratic sovereignty (until such time as they were capable of taking up the reins themselves of course).

To me, it's just not safe to have this huge arsenal of nukes without using them. They sit there and rot, eventually they start to contaminate our own soil. And who wants to store them anywhere? Nowhere in America is safe to store these dangerous compounds. But there are so many places that are just crying for the democratic forces of an A-bomb. We get our practice and get to dispose of the volatile compounds in places where the ill effects can stand as reminders of past failures. How much less susceptible to terrorism would children growing up in Iraq be if only 50 miles down the road seethed a nuclear hotbed, where a misplaced step would show the consequences of not embracing the democratic vision as laid down by the compassionate American forces?

Again, we've got use them, or we're going to lose them. Not in my backyard! To allow these useful tools to sit is a crying shame. Let's drop 'em and let every one feel the democratic American vision.

Or at least that's what Dr. Laura has to say. Today in my search for radiophonic sustenance I happened upon the dowager Ms. Schlessinger's program. I think she's on for like 12 hours a day on AM 930 since it seems no matter what time I'm driving to/from work she's on, 7:30 or 1:30. Today she admitted to going to Hooters. Apparently she had heard such horrible things from her listeners that she had to go check it out. And it was alright. Gosh be darned! The curly fries were just wonderful, and the waitresses wore nothing more revealing than tight shorts, "better than what most of your kids are wearing these days," bemoaned Dr. Laura.

I've never actually been to a Hooters. Did they ever live up to the implied reputation of such a name? Anyway I think they need to add a disclaimer to their signs and advertisements:

[size=m] Hooters, if it's good enough for Dr. Laura i'ts good enough for your sorry ass![/size]

The Buffalo News had a story about it on 4/1/2004, but because they don't freaking keep their stories up for more than a week it's gone. Anyways, they found a beaver in the Scajaquada last year and I was wondering if anyone has heard about it lately. Is it still there, glowing green and stinking? I've looked for it a million times but never found a trace. Maybe it's an urban myth. It's strange to me that no one commented about it here, I mean, why didn't I commetn about it? Hmmmm... Well, any info would be appreciated. Yo!

or a dingy little dive fortunately equipped with a refreshing outdoor patio, not that there is such a thing as an indoor patio...

Very nice to have met so many peeps. (e:Uncutsaniflush) especially since I've read all the journals and am intrigued by non-natives like myself who somehow end up in Buffalo. (e:Leetee) (I must score bonus points for your first user-link, eh?) was also quite charming, we talked for quite awhile about fun times in the past and fun times in the future with less inebriation. But then I became more inebriated and put on my inspector's cap. I only paid a nickle but I snuck in the quarter-tour of their beautiful house [inlink]uncutsaniflush,69[/inlink]. Poked into nooks, investigated cranies, and left no cupboard closed. If it's necessary, I apologiza, but it was all done in appreciation of your great buy and Buffalo's hidden architectural gems. (e:Ajay) I say farewell too. It was great to at last "meet" someone (perhaps meat-meet, uncut?) who I've kinda known for over a year now. Sad that it had to be his last day here. But departures to greener pastures are more happy than sad, and heck, he's still got his journal. (e:Springfaerie), as always, a pleasure. Sorry I was so flighty, but the fresh air (and the beer in the (e:Mike) 's trunk [inlink]mike,344[/inlink]) kept tempting me away. Nonetheless, the next gathering should be planned for a sooner-rater-than-later date. Karaoke must be strictly optional.

Oy yeah, the day started at the Square for another Thursday. It was packed, 20 min. to get from street to street. I heard only faint music, and so no band members (except an occassional wild sweep of flailing drumsticks). But I got to meet Jesse, who is always interesting company and Tao Cho, who is also quite nice and interesting, and who kept wanting to "get lost" and sneak up, very fun activities.

The neatest part of the day, however, was the sighting of the giant spurred-thigh tortoise (just like our little Basra x 6) [inlink]paul,3467[/inlink]. We were just randomly walking down the street and I look over and there he is just walking around and munching on the lawn. Just nuts, I tell you! Nuts! The owner's name is Raymond, and I wished I had gotten more info. but it was a slightly strange social meeting. I just may have to take my tortoise for a walk over there though, for a possible meeting. Go tortoise-power!

Whew, it's hot in here. I'm sweating like a sewdish pig.

Today we talk about justice, or more precisely, the justices. They issued some fun rulings today. (e:Paul) already commented about the Grokster case [inlink]paul,3474[/inlink]. Basically because law enforcement is having trouble catching the criminals involved (ie: people sharing copyrighted materials) the Court has ruled the methods of delivery illegal. It's like shutting down all the pharmacies because some have been shown to have given out drugs to those without a prescription. Yes you can argue that this particular conduit seemed to have little use beyond the illegal activities, which is true, but the point is that now the door has been blown open for any company to sue the be-jesus out of any individual or littler company that wants to provide non-corporate sharing of files.

Next the court ruled that the Ten Commandments are fine objects to have on our courtrooms. But, in a devious and strange little twist, they must weigh over a ton.

The court, voting 5-4, today approved a Ten Commandments monument on the Texas State Capitol grounds, rejecting arguments that the state was unconstitutionally favoring religion. In a second case, the court ruled 5-4 that two Kentucky counties were too focused on promoting religion when they posted framed copies of the commandments in courthouses.Quoted from: Bloomberg.com: U.S.

So a monument to the basis of Christian law is okey-dokey, but notices of that actual law are not. I can see the point theoretically, one memorializes the past and the other posts it not as memorial but as reminder. So what happens when the notices in Kentucky come down and little stone monuments spring up everywhere? Judge Breyer, who tipped the balance for the monuments, justified his decison with the following, "[the Texas tablets] have been used as part of a display that communicates not simply a religious message, but a secular message as well.'' He said the state ``intended the latter, non-religious aspects of the tablets' message to predominate." But what kind of secular statement is "know no other God before me"? That would seem to be a religious idea that, if translated, to a secularist judiciary system, would indicate some kind of bias to one type of religion, or at least to one kind of religiously inspired law.

Someone needs to gift the Buffalo courthouse with a huge graven image of the Five Pillars of Islam. Then we'll see if the secular message of the monument is really what counts, and not just the fact that it's a Christian message in a majorly predominant Christian country (and judiciary).

And then...(I know it's getting long)... The US is planning its first production of radioactive Plutonium 238 since the end of cold war but is maintaining secrecy on how it will be used. So far it has only been used for unmanned space craft and espionage devices that we know of. Bush wants to make 300 lbs of it, which will create at least 50,000 barrels of toxic/radioactive sludge. And that's before it's even used for whatever nefarious projects are in store. Can't we just get over the whole nuclear idea? How many disasters will it take? How many waste sites, toxic rivers, mutated animals, and sterile people must we create before we see that this is not a safe technology? Simply ridiculous.