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... and has a very ironic sense of humor. case in point:
my mother and i were just discussing cellular telephones, and i made the comment that i was "too attached" to my phone to not have one. not even 12 hours later, as i am standing up in a porta-potty to do up my pants, my phone slips off of my belt, bounces off the seat, does a beautiful back twist handspring right into the blue water.
it felt no pain, the wonderful people at CLC designed a cell phone case that absorbs the shock associated with a 3 foot fall. unfortunately they did not design a case that also protects the phone from water. at 8:06AM, the coroner arrived, and pronounced on scene, setting cause of death at drowning. (incidentally, he said it died almost instantly, so it didn't suffer)
i did get a replacement that very same day, but before swan diving into the chemical abyss, phoney (that's all his friends called him) did not bother to leave me his address book.
the moral of the story:
IF YOU HAVE EVER HAD OCCASION TO GIVE ME YOUR PHONE NUMBER, CALL ME SO THAT I WILL HAVE IT AGAIN
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| 09:12pm 12/05/2005 |
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i know, i know, i kinda disappeared for a while, and for that i am sorry.
life has been...... yes.
i am SILL working in northridge as a video engineer, but HATE it. the job is good, and the money is good, but the atmosphere is horrible. it is the most hostile / political work environment you have ever been in. none of the departments get along, none of the faculty play nice with each other, and i am caught in the middle. if i were living up here, it would not be so bad, but making the drive up here from SD to spend 2 nights on a couch somewhere so that i can spend 20 hours working, well, blows.
i interviewed for a position at FOX in SD, but didn't get a call back.
my work in SD, my REAL work in SD has been pretty non-existant. i have done a few small potatoes videos for brooktown stuff, the dance show for FHS (which took FOREVER to get off my computer and selling), and bell's musical. i am tired of spending all my free time posting videos for no money, and looking forward to my next "community" project. i want to be on a 53' truck somewhere directing some sporting event, but instead i am relegated to the mission theatre and graduations in the middle of the desert.
there is one bright spot in my life however....
the Lord has blessed me with the privilege of sharing the company of the most amazing woman. some of you have only heard the legend, and still others only rumors, so i will set it straight here and now....
YES, LINDSAY AND I ARE SEEING EACH OTHER.
while it was nice being single, i cannot believe how great it is to have someone to share life with again. the distance thing sucks (she's in SLO, and i am either in SD or LA), but so far so good. if you want the gory details, you will just have to ask me in person :)
k, well i have to go strike a set, and then find a couch to sleep on..... |
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| 11:43pm 21/04/2005 |
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Are you ready maybe are you willing to run
Are you ready to let yourself drown
Are you holding your breath
Are you ready or not
Are you ready maybe do you long to confess
Do you feel that you're already numb
Are you sure of yourself
Would you lie if you're not
You tire me out don't want to let that happen
A secret scream so loud why did you let that happen
So put your arms around me
You let me believe that you were someone else
Cause only time can take you
So let me believe that I am someone else
Maybe are you ready to break
Do you think that I push you too far
Would you open yourself
Are you reckless or not
You tire me out don't want to let that happen
A secret scream so loud why did you let that happen
So put your arms around me
So put your arms around me
Make me believe
Take me, take me somewhere, somewhere
Let me believe
Cause only time can take you so stop |
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| 11:19pm 27/03/2005 |
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here's the quickie...
out of school 3 months, working as a video engineer at CSUN, wishing i were living / working in san diego or seattle, wondering why there is nothing but crap on tv |
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| JoA |
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| 12:31am 12/02/2005 |
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i really think that everyone should be required to watch joan of arcadia. tonight's show was about love and relationships, and how true it was.
"love is a mental disease" |
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| life question..... |
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| 11:34pm 05/02/2005 |
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When two people love each other, completely and totally, but they just can't seem to get it together, when do you get to the point when you say that enough is enough?
Post your answer |
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| "Tomorrow" -SR-71 |
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| 11:31pm 05/02/2005 |
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I can be as humble as the next guy
Or I can blink and make you crumble from the inside
I could be every nasty thing, you ever thought a man could be
Cuz they all fall down (down)
Cuz they all fall down (down)
I can make you see the beauty of a new sun
or I can be the source of your desperation
I could be every nasty thing, you ever dreamt a man could be
Cuz they all fall down (down)
Cuz they all fall down (down)
Jaded, dated, i'm the type you hated
haunted, taunted, i'm what you've always wanted
yeah, yeah, i'm what you've always wanted [x2]
you can turn away like you don't even see me
Yea, you can smile like you got something I need
but every night you go home alone
and dream about being underneath me
Cuz they all fall down (down)
Cuz they all fall down (down)
Jaded, dated, i'm the type you hated
haunted, taunted, i'm what you've always wanted
yeah, yeah, i'm what you've always wanted [x2]
can't you see through this disguise
Find the little boy inside
I'm afraid of falling
Love is pain and now she's calling
and she's,
Jaded, dated, i'm the type you hated
haunted, taunted, i'm what you've always wanted
yeah, yeah, i'm what you've always wanted [x2]
Cuz they all fall down (down)
Cuz they all fall down (down) |
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| "My World" -SR-71 |
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| 11:19pm 05/02/2005 |
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The fastest man in the world, fast asleep at the wheel
Nobody wants to be alone, so how did I get, here
When I look at you, I see him staring through
Awake and a smile, cuz he's been inside of you
Is he all the things you, tried to change me into?
Is he everything to you?
Does he make you high, make you real?
Does he make you cry? Does he know the way you feel?
Love is all around you, your universe is full
But in my world, there is only you
I can still find the smell
On my clothes and skin
I can still see your face, when youre sleeping next to him
Is he all the things you, tried to change me into?
Tell me does he…
Does he make you high, make you real?
Does he make you cry? Does he know the way you feel?
Love is all around you, your universe is full
But in my world, there is only you
I've had enough of fears, you let them out
Now I wrap myself around you
Like a blanket full of doubt
He's your everything
Does he make you high, make you real?
Does he make you cry? Does he know the way you feel?
Love is all around you, your universe is full
But in my world, there is only you
You make me high! You make me real!
You make me cry! Now you know the way I feel
Love is all around you, your universe is full
But in my world, there is only you |
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| AMEN!!!! |
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| 11:41pm 31/01/2005 |
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mood: restless music: "Somewhere Out There" -Our Lady Peace
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If you kiss her,
you are not a gentleman
If you don't,
you are not a man
If you praise her,
she thinks you are lying
If you don't,
you are good for nothing
If you agree to all her likes,
you are a wimp
If you don't,
you are not understanding
If you visit her often,
she thinks you are boring
If you don't,
she accuses you of double-crossing
If you are well dressed,
she says you are a playboy
If you don't,
you are a dull boy
If you are jealous,
she says it's bad
If you don't,
she thinks you do not love her
If you attempt a romance,
she says you didn't respect her
If you don't,
she thinks you do not like her
If you are a minute late,
she complains it's hard to wait
If she is late,
she says that's a girl's way
If you visit another man,
you're not putting in "quality time"
If she is visited by another woman,
"oh it's natural, we are girls"
If you kiss her once in a while,
she professes you are cold
If you kiss her often,
she yells that you are taking advantage
If you fail to help her in crossing the street,
you lack ethics
If you do,
she thinks it's just one of men's tactics for seduction
If you stare at another woman,
she accuses you of flirting
If she is stared by other men,
she says that they are just admiring
If you talk,
she wants you to listen
If you listen,
she wants you to talk
In short:
So simple, yet so complex
So weak, yet so powerful
So confusing, yet so desirable
So damning, yet so wonderful... ....WOMEN |
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| 12:27am 27/01/2005 |
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no matter how long it's been, it never gets easier. i hate this feeling. |
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| 09:23pm 26/01/2005 |
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i know that the lord is in control, and that everything happens for a reason, but it doesn't make it any easier... |
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| the message... |
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| 11:24pm 19/01/2005 |
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I think the Lord has a message he is trying to get across to me.
In church on Sunday, the pastor talked about how we get caught up in the story that we want to write for our life, and lose sight of the story that God is writing for our life. Much like the disciples, we ask him when he is going to return our lives to their former glory. But God does not go back. He goes forward. We may not be able to understand why the Lord has decided to insert an unexpected chapter into our lives, but we need to trust that he knows the whole story. All too often we try to force our lives to follow what we want the story to be; we get caught up in the pursuit of success, or wealth, or the betterment of society, whatever it may be, it causes us to lose sight of the kingdom of God. We are the kingdom, and when we let God fill our sails, we follow his path, live his story, and our lives reflect that. We become true witnesses of Him and his love.
Tonight I watched the Joan of Arcadia from last week ( I was out of town), and God told Joan to join the musical at school. The director was an artist, and he changed the show daily; everything from recasting the lead to sets, even the title of the play! Joan was frustrated by the chaos, and wanted to know what it all meant. All God would tell her was to learn her song. In the end, the show was a disaster, but her song touched lives in ways she never possible. Out of the chaos, God created meaning and reason, she just needed to let Him fill her sails.
i needed this message this week. Not just this week, but for a while. I have been out of school for a month now, and I still have no job, no solid leads on a job, and a decent amount of chaos in my life. It gets overwhelming sometimes, because I had this vision of finishing school, making a couple phone calls, and landing a nice television job somewhere. That has yet to happen. Instead the bills continue to pile up, I continue to work at the same jobs that I have been doing for almost a decade, and are getting no closer to employment in the television industry.
I think what God wants me to remember is that He is in control of my life, and that I need to worry less about where the money will come from to pay my bills, and how my life will turn out, and worry more about listening to him and writing His story for my life. |
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| 01:43am 07/01/2005 |
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please pray for me and my family. we just found out today that my grandpa has cancer.... serious cancer. i also applied for a job today, so prayer on both counts would be much appreciated. |
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| 12:20am 05/01/2005 |
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i HATE shitheads. i especially HATE little shitheads who do everything that is humanly possible to screw you over. |
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| 11:08pm 23/12/2004 |
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mood:  tired music: the sound of my computer fans
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as i am sure most of you are aware, this is the first christmas for my family without my grandmother. did i mention that my grandfather just had a biopsy done for a lump in his prostate? yeah... this is gonna be a fun christmas. so far the family has managed to hold it together, but i just know that tomorrow (christmas eve) and christmas day are going to be very emotional. we usually have christmas eve dinner at my grandparents house with them and my cousins, but, for the first time in 20 years, we are doing christmas eve dinner at our house. we usually spend christmas eve night at our grandparents house, and then do christmas morning there. for the first time in 20 years we are doing christmas morning at my cousin's house. this is going to be a tough christmas. last year i broke down in church on christmas eve, and i just know that i am going to do that again this year. it's gonna suck. oh, did i also mention that for the first time in almost 5 years i am having a single christmas? thank God that i have a lot of great friends this christmas, because i don't know if i could get by otherwise. well, that's not true. i have a great family, and they would get me through, but great friends just make that much easier. my resolution for next year is the same as this year: do a better job keeping in touch with friends. i did much better this year, but there are still people who i don't talk to enough, so i am going to remedy that this coming year.
if anybody needs a kiss this new years, i am more than willing to help out, so let me know ;-)
p.s. - this is what part of the alphabet would look like if q and r were removed. |
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| what i have been up to... |
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| 12:57am 23/11/2004 |
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mood: exhausted music: "Stigmatized"- The Calling
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ok, for those of you who wan to know what i have been up to, here you go...
www.protechprod.com
this has been my life for the past few weeks. well, that's not true. i did a few videos during that time also.
anyways, check out the site and let me know what ya think...
thanks, you're the best!! |
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| 12:41am 01/11/2004 |
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i realized something tonight... i realized that we as a nation have lost perspective of reality. we have been so consumed with finger pointing, and trying to decide who lied to who, that we missed the point. the point is not that politicians lie... every public figure this country has ever had has lied (except for george washington, he could never tell a lie.... a little humor there). i fact, i'll bet that everyone reading this post right now has lied several times in their life. it doesn't even matter what it was about... we do it, they do it, it's a fact of politics. we need to get over it and move on. if this election were about who is lying, there would not be a qualified candidate in the entire country. we need to get over it and move on. the point also is not that we are at war... this is not the first war, and certainly will not be the last. once again, we need to get over it. the point is not why we went to war... every war ever fought has had a reason. maybe the vikings went to war "just because", but even that is a reason. is it a good reason? that depends on who you are, and that brings us back to perspective. never has there been a war that was a unanimous decision, and never will there be a war that is a unanimous decision. once again, we need to get over it, move on, and expend our energy in the pursuit gaining a better perspective... every month in downtown san diego, thousands of new citizens are sworn in-every month. every day thousands of immigrants cross our borders from every country imaginable-thousands every day. we are the greatest nation on the face of this earth... and it's high time we started acting like it. every election year we get really picky about our country... the deficit's too high, the dollar's too low, only 95% of our entire population has a job, my giant luxary car costs too much, our country is feed so well we have a national weight epidemic. i know being overweight is a serious problem, but compare that to most every other country in the world where they are dealing with starvation because they live in a country run by a dictator, where nobody has a job, or a car, or food on their table, or a roof over their head. our "problems" in this country are nothing in comparison.
so on tuesday, when you go to the polls, remember this. i am not telling you who to vote for, i am telling you to try to gain some perspective. it's not about who is going to "fix" our problems, it's not about who didn't lie, it's not about why we are fighting this war, it's about who loves america, who realizes that we are the greatest nation on this earth, who wants to and will sustain america's greatness, and who has perspective.
what saddens me greatly is how impossible it is for people to gain a common perspective. i know we are all different, have different backgrounds, etc, but what happened to the fundamental level that we used to, as a nation, be able to all agree on? i don't really know what it was or where it went, but it's gone, and that saddens me. i know that it is impossible for everyone to agree on everything, but that is no excuse for not agreeing on anything, and that is no excuse to loathe people who do not share your perspective. i do however, view that impossible task as a very good reason why we should attempt to gain a common perspective, because when you come right down to it, we all want the same thing: we want what is best for this country. |
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| 11:13pm 29/10/2004 |
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ladies and gentlemen, it's now official....
I, RYAN, AM OFFICIALLY A HEARTLESS BASTARD.
just thought you should know... :) |
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| 10:38pm 28/10/2004 |
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... for filmmakers like Michael Moore to use the power of the medium (cinema) to disseminate his hateful opinion as fact without so much as a disclaimer saying, "the views presented in the following film are those of the filmmaker. They are not grounded in fact, nor are they presented in a fair, factual manner."
i understand that he has strong opinions, and has made a considerable amount of money from those opinions, but that is the beauty of the capitalistic country that he lives in: you are allowed your opinions, and you are allowed to make money. And that is why Michael Moore continues to live in this "horrible" nation. If he were living anywhere else, he would have been killed for his venomous speech and contemptuous ideas.
if you are one of the many Michael Moore followers, than this post is for you. The content is from this website:
http://www.davekopel.org/Terror/Fiftysix-Deceits-in-Fahrenheit-911.htm
If all you know is what the mainstream media tell you, then you are living in a world of illusions. But you can’t free your mind if you merely replace one set of manipulative illusions with another set of manipulative illusions. Fahrenheit 9/11 is a twisted, dishonest, paranoid, and hateful fantasy. Learn the facts, and make up your own mind. The list below is a summary of a much longer report, which is available for free at www.davekopel.org. The report also discusses many other issues about the movie. There are lots of good reasons why people have chosen to vote against (or for) the re-election of George Bush. And there are lots of good reasons why patriotic Americans have decided to oppose (or support) the war in Iraq. One thing that all the good reasons have in common is that they are based on facts. In a democracy, we should try to convince our fellow citizens with facts and logical reasoning. To manipulate people with frauds and propaganda is to attack democracy itself.
1. The Gore “victory” rally isn’t celebrating a Florida win. It was held before the polls had even opened.
2. Like all the other networks, Fox mistakenly said that Gore had won in Florida. The first network to retract the Florida mistake was CBS, not Fox.
3. A 6-month study by a consortium of major newspapers shows that Bush would have won the Florida recount under any of the terms which Gore sought in his lawsuits.
4. Investigation by the Palm Beach Post and others shows that race was not a reason why election officials mistakenly disqualified some voters because they were incorrectly thought to have felony convictions.
5. Bush’s Presidency before 9/11 was not in serious trouble. No commentator said that he looked like a lame-duck president. Congress had passed his #1 bill (the tax cut) and was on the way to passing his #2 bill (the education bill). The scene at the end of the movie in which Bush tells a rich audience “I call you my base,” was from an October 2000 charity fund-raiser. Both Gore and Bush spoke at the fund-raiser and, as is the custom at the fund-raiser, made fun of themselves.
6. “In his first eight months in office before September 11th, George W. Bush was on vacation, according to the Washington Post, forty-two percent of the time.” As the Washington Post reported, the figure includes weekends, and includes time in “vacation locations” such as Camp David, where Bush was working—as when he met with Tony Blair.
7. In the golf course scene (about the middle of the movie), Bush had just heard about a terrorist attack on Israel. He called the press together to make a quick statement condemning the terrorism against Israel. He was not speaking about attacks on the United States.
8. There is no evidence that Bush did not read the Aug. 6, 2001 Presidential Daily Briefing about al Qaeda.
9. He never claimed that the title’s “vagueness” was an excuse for not reading it.
10. The Briefing did not say “said that Osama bin Laden was planning to attack America by hijacking airplanes.” It said that the FBI has “not been able to corroborate” such a threat.
11. The Saudis left the U.S. only after air travel was opened for the general public.
12. According to Richard Clarke and the September 11 Commission, Clarke personally approved the Saudi departures, and the decision went no higher in the chain of command.
13. Moore lied to a TV reporter in claiming that Fahrenheit discloses Clarke’s decision to the audience. Clarke called the Saudi exit material in Fahrenheit a “mistake” by Moore.
14. Contrary to what Fahrenheit claims, the September 11 Commission found that many Saudis were asked “detailed questions” before being allowed to leave.
15. James Bath did not invest bin Laden family money in Bush’s energy company Arbusto. He invested his own money.
16. Bath’s name was blacked-out from an Alabama National Guard record released by the White House—as required by federal law, which prohibits the disclosure of health-related personal information.
17. Prince Bandar has way too much influence on the U.S. government, as Fahrenheit shows, but American coddling of the Saudi tyranny is a long-standing bi-partisan tradition, not a Bush invention.
18. Harken Energy: Bush only sold the stock after company lawyers told him it was OK.
19. The reason that Bush “beat the rap” was because there was no evidence he had engaged in insider trading.
20. The Carlyle Group is not a Bush playground. Many Bush opponents are investors, including George Soros.
21. The Bush administration dealt Carlyle a huge financial blow by canceling the Crusader missile, one of the few weapons cancellations in the Bush administration.
22. The bin Ladens dropped out of Carlyle before the stock sale. Of the 1.4 billion that the Saudis invested in companies with Bush connections, the vast majority of the money was invested in Carlyle before George H.W. Bush joined the firm.
23. Craig Unger claims that the Saudis have $860 billion invested in the U.S. The figure appears in his book House of Bush, House of Saud, but neither of Unger’s cited sources support such a large figure.
24. Moore claims that the Saudis “own 7% of America.” But even if you believe Unger’s fictitious $860 billion figure, the Saudis own only about 7% of total foreign investment in America, which is over 10 trillion dollars. Only if all of America were owned by foreigners could Moore’s claim be correct.
25. The Saudi embassy does not receive special protection. It is not the only foreign embassy which is guarded by the U.S. Secret Service. An international treaty signed by the U.S. requires the U.S. to protect any embassy which asks for protection.
26. Moore’s insinuation that Bush runs U.S. foreign policy according to Saudi instructions is contradicted by the Afghanistan invasion (which toppled the Taliban regime which the Saudis strongly supported), and by the Iraq War (which the Saudis opposed, in part because Iraqi oil will compete with Saudi oil).
27. As Governor of Texas, Bush never met with Taliban representatives.
28. The proposed Unocal pipeline was supported by the Clinton administration, but Unocal abandoned the pipeline idea in 1998.
29. The new Afghani government has signed a protocol to build a pipeline, but it is an entirely different pipeline, in a location hundreds of miles distant from the Unocal proposal.
30. Construction has not begun on the new pipeline. Although Moore claims that “Enron stood to benefit” from the pipeline, Enron has never had any participation in either pipeline.
31. The Bush administration did not “welcome” Taliban diplomats in March 2001, but instead condemned them for failing to hand over Osama bin Laden.
32. Despite Moore’s pose in the movie, he opposed the Afghanistan War, and—in December 2002—claimed that Osama bin Laden might be innocent.
33. In claiming that the Afghanistan invasion was a mere ruse to protect the Saudis, Moore omits the results of liberation in Afghanistan: destruction of al Qaeda training camps, the creation of free elections, more freedom for women, and the homecoming of 1.5 million refugees from the Taliban.
34. The various quotes about Bush administration cooperation with the September 11 Commission have been resequenced to create a false impression. In July 2003, Chairman Kean complained about lack of cooperation. In February 2004, Bush said that the White House had given extraordinary cooperation. Kean agreed, and praised the White House for providing “unprecedented” access.
35. John Ashcroft didn’t really lose a Senate election to a “dead guy.” Mel Carnahan died in a plane crash a few weeks before the election, and the Missouri Governor had promised to appoint Carnahan’s widow Jean Carnahan if voters pulled the lever for Mel Carnahan.
36. The FBI did not “know” about al Qaeda suspects who were attending flight training schools. The information was never passed above the level of one field office.
37. Ashcroft did not cut overall counter-terrorism funding. He only proposed a one-year cut in a particular program that already had two years of unspent money.
38. Rep. Porter Goss says he has an “800 number,” and the Fahrenheit caption says “He’s lying.” Goss does have a tollfree number, although the prefix is 877.
39. Moore say Saddam’s Iraq “had never murdered a single American citizen.” In fact, Saddam paid for terrorist bombers in Israel who murdered Americans, along with people of other nationalities. Saddam also sheltered the American-killing terrorist Abu Nidal, and the bomb-maker for the 1993 World Trade Center bombings.
40. In addition, Saddam ordered assassination attempts against former President Bush and against U.S. diplomats in the Philippines.
41. Moore claims that the Saddam regime “never threatened to attack the United States.” In fact, in 1997 the regime publicly ordered: “American and British interests, embassies, and naval ships in the Arab region should be the targets of military operations and commando attacks by Arab political forces.” On the first anniversary of September 11, Saddam's regime called for suicide attacks on Americans.
42. Moore claims that there was no connection between Iraq and al Qaeda. In fact, there is an extensive record of collaboration although—as the September 11 Commission announced—there is no proof that Saddam participated beforehand in al Qaeda attacks on America.
43. Fahrenheit shows Condoleezza Rice saying, “Oh, indeed there is a tie between Iraq and what happened on 9/11.” The audience laughs derisively. Here is what Rice really said on Nov. 28, 2003: "Oh, indeed there is a tie between Iraq and what happened on 9/11. It’s not that Saddam Hussein was somehow himself and his regime involved in 9/11, but, if you think about what caused 9/11, it is the rise of ideologies of hatred that lead people to drive airplanes into buildings in New York. This is a great terrorist, international terrorist network that is determined to defeat freedom. It has perverted Islam from a peaceful religion into one in which they call on it for violence. And they’re all linked. And Iraq is a central front because, if and when, and we will, we change the nature of Iraq to a place that is peaceful and democratic and prosperous in the heart of the Middle East, you will begin to change the Middle East...."
44. Moore portrays pre-liberation Iraq as a happy nation of kite-flying and weddings. In fact, a sixth of the population had fled Saddam’s tyranny. The United Nations and Amnesty International condemned “the systematic, widespread and extremely grave violations of human rights and of international humanitarian law by the Government of Iraq, resulting in an all-pervasive repression and oppression sustained by broad-based discrimination and widespread terror.’’
45. The only Iraqi casualties which Moore shows are civilians, although military casualties far outnumbered civilian.
46. When showing pictures of buildings being blown up, Moore does not reveal that many of them were military buildings, and civilians were never allowed anywhere near them.
47. A humorous sequence making fun of tiny countries in the Iraq liberation Coalition does not even mention the major countries in the Coalition, such as the U.K., Australia, Italy, and Japan. Not a deceit, but mean-spirited and exploitive: The footage of the funeral of U.S. Air Force Maj. Gregory Stone at Arlington National Cemetery appears without his family's permission, and over their vehement objection. Major Stone strongly believed in the Iraq mission, as does his family. The footage of Massachusetts National Guardsman Peter Damon, who is undergoing therapy at Walter Reed Army Medical Center is also used without his permission.
48. Despite Moore’s claims, American media have not been mindlessly supportive of the Iraq war. For example, Peter Jennings has been extremely critical. The evidence that Moore offers to portray Jennings as a war supporter is a clip of Jennings reporting in April 2003 that Saddam’s army had collapsed—which was true.
49. The scene of American soldiers making fun of a man underneath a sheet is not torture of a prisoner of war. They are making fun of a drunk who passed out in the street.
50. Moore reports that Bush proposed closing some Veteran’s hospitals. But he also proposed opening other veteran’s hospitals.
51. Bush once opposed renewing a special bonus of $75/ month for soldiers in “imminent danger zones.” Moore claims that Bush proposed cutting combat soldiers’ pay by 1/3; but a soldier's pay and benefits is over $27,000 per year, even at low enlisted grades.
52. While making false claims about a Bush pay cut, Moore omits the fact that Bush sought and won a 3.7% military pay raise in 2003.
53. Moore claims that only one Congressman has a child in Iraq. Actually, two do. (Democratic Senator Tim Johnson of S.D., and Republican Rep. Duncan Hunter of California.) Also, John Ashcroft has a son on a naval ship in the Persian Gulf.
54. Fahrenheit deceptively cut the footage of Rep. Mark Kennedy to make it look like Kennedy rebuffed Moore’s request to help enlist Congressional children. In fact, Kennedy said it was a good idea, and offered to help.
55. Fahrenheit shows Rep. Michael Castle walking past Moore. But Rep. Castle is childless.
56. Based on Census Bureau data, Congressional families are more likely than other families to have children serving in Iraq.
57. Moore calls Flint, Michigan, “my hometown.” In fact, he grew up in Davison, a much wealthier and much whiter suburb.
58. In Fahrenheit, Moore pretends to support our troops. But in fact, he supports the enemy in Iraq-the coalition of Saddam loyalists, al Qaeda operatives, and terrorists controlled by Iran or Syria-who are united in their desire to murder Iraqis, and to destroy any possibility of democracy in Iraq. Here is what Moore said on April 14, 2004, about the forces who are killing Americans and trying to impose totalitarian rule on Iraq: “The Iraqis who have risen up against the occupation are not ‘insurgents’ or ‘terrorists’ or ‘The Enemy.’ They are the REVOLUTION, the Minutemen, and their numbers will grow—and they will win.” Do you really think that someone who wants Iraq to be ruled by Islamist or Ba’athist tyranny, and who deliberately kills innocent civilians with car bombs, is like the American Minutemen?
59. As reported in the trade journal Screen Daily, affiliates of the Iranian and Syrian-backed terrorist group Hezbollah are promoting Fahrenheit 9/11, and Moore’s Middle East distributor, Front Row, is accepting the terrorist assistance: “In terms of marketing the film, Front Row is getting a boost from organizations related to Hezbollah which have rung up from Lebanon to ask if there is anything they can do to support the film. And although [Front Row’s Managing Director Giancarlo] Chacra says he and his company feel strongly that Fahrenheit is not anti-American, but anti-Bush, ‘we can’t go against these organizations as they could strongly boycott the film in Lebanon and Syria.’” (Nancy Tartaglione, “Fahrenheit to be first doc released theatrically in Middle East,” Screen Daily.com, June 9, 2004. The story is discussed in Samantha Ellis, “Fahrenheit 9/11 gets help offer from Hezbollah,” The Guardian (London), June 17, 2004.) Slate.com (6/24/04) followed up on the story, and reported: “Gianluca Chacra, the managing director of Front Row Entertainment, the movie’s distributor in the United Arab Emirates, confirms that Lebanese student members of Hezbollah ‘have asked us if there’s any way they could support the film.’ Chacra was unfazed, even excited, about their offer. ‘Having the support of such an entity in Lebanon is quite significant for that market and not at all controversial. I think it’s quite natural.’” Do you think it’s patriotic to accept help from a terrorist organization which has killed and kidnapped hundreds of Americans, which works with al Qaeda and other terrorists, and which is currently aiding the killing of American soldiers and Iraqi civilians? American patriotism can include presenting honest arguments against a particular American military policy. Hateriotism is the spreading of vicious lies against American soldiers and in favor of tyrants. It’s not unpatriotic to criticize a war or particular wartime policies. But how many patriots do you know who take aid from terrorists who kill Americans? |
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so now i can't watch television anymore.......
i tuned in for the end of Dr. Vegas, which is unusual because i NEVER watch that show.
anyways... the subplot was about this stagehand that travels with a poker tournament and his relationship with this beautiful dealer at the casino. he was so nice to her, and she was a complete bitch.
all i could think of was how i wish i had somebody to be shot down by...
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