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I have switched my blog sites. Thank you for reading. Now just go to my new page which looks alot like this one. You can click go here to check it out. Thanks, and thanks to Colleen for helping me and answering my questions.

Who’s the Third

Ok, I was just watching ABC news with Katie Couric and saw that Jack Pallance passed away. That sucks cause I enjoyed his movies. I also saw that yesterday Ed Bradley from 60 minutes died. I’m also sorry to hear that. I don’t watch 60 minutes much but I did enjow Mr.Bradleys sections. I remember one interview he did with Michael Jordan where they played one on one. I know it seems that celebrity deaths always happen in threes so I wonder who the third is. I hate that these two have passed away. Pallance’s unforgettable movie characters and Bradley’s insightful interviews will definitely be missed by me. Hopefully there will not be a third one this time.

Someone’s Bitter

I am looking at Rush Limbaugh’s website just to see what he is saying about the historic Republican losses. I find him to be a big, funny man so I’m gonna give you a couple of his quotes:

“We have proven we can beat them. We have proven we can beat Democrats. We have proven we can withstand whatever we get from the Drive-By Media. Conservatism, when properly applied with vigor and honesty, will triumph in this country.”  Maybe I’m missing out on something but I thought that you guys lost both houses of the Congress Tuesday.

“Think the militant Islamists and terrorists are happy today? Of course they are! They’re looking at their own future with promise, brighter days, and the Sun never setting.”  I just love this one. The Republicans couldn’t finish the Iraq war and find Bin Laden so the terrorists would be happy for them to stay

“If elderly people in Pennsylvania happen to think that the war in Iraq is wrong primarily because it uses money that could be coming to them as increased benefits, then who are they going to blame? They’re going to blame that young whippersnapper Santorum who doesn’t care about them!” Big Rush isn’t far from being elderly himself but he’s wealthy so the issue of growing old knowing that Social Security won’t be there for him doesn’t effect him. Thanks Rush for disrespecting a whole generation of people who fought for freedom in War World II, Korea, and Vietnam. Where did you serve?

It’s Official

I’m watching CNN now and Senator George Allen of Virginia is making his concession speech. This means that the Democrats have 51 seats in the Senate to thr Republicans 49 seats. The election was a sweep with the Democrats taking over. I’m so excited because it means no more of the President and the Republicans ruling the country like a dictatorship. No more freedoms taken from us with Naziesque laws like The Patriot Act. Now the president is saying he wants to work with the Democrats. Where was that before? Now things like raising the minimum wage, maybe curing diseases with stem cell research, and a protection for Roe vs. Wade. Now only 2 years and maybe the Democrats can take back the White House with either NY Senator Hillary Rodham-Clinton, or Illinois Senator Barack Obama. I can’t wait. Go here to read about the Democrats 6-Point Plan that includes A Healthcare System that works for everyone, Energy Independence, Retirement Security, Economic Prosperity and Educational Excellence, Real Security, and Honest Leadership and Open Government. I am very liberal and would love to see some of these initiatives happen. Especially the Energy Independence. I am the biggest Big Oil company skeptic with the way they put their former executives (and I’m sure current stockholders) into the Executive Branch so they could gouge us with outrageous gas prices and make record profits. Honest Leadership is another one I’m not sure about. I mean, the Democrats say they are for the same things I am for but once they get to Washington, the become politicians and really only vote with the lobbyists who fatten their pockets (thats right, I said it. If any of you are reading this then prove me wrong.) At least Donald Rumsfeld is gone.

What a Great Day for America

When I woke up today I saw that The Democrats had taken back Congress I got excited. Finally someone to put the President in check, even though he circumvented The Republican Congress whenever possibly. I guess now though he’ll dust of the old Veto pen which he didn’t use for the first 5 years AT ALL. But now I discover that theres icing on the cake. Donald Rumsfeld resigned. I guess it took the whole country being dissatisfied with the war he helped orchestrate to force his hand because we all know that the Generals who served in Iraq speaking out against him didn’t do anything. I am so excited now. I will update more on his replacement later. Oh, and Claire McCaskill from Missouri won.

Limbaugh embarasses himself

Ok, so I don’t like to broadcast my political views in this blog but as some of you may know I am a proud liberal. I am very vocal on my views on things such as my support for stem cell research. Stem Cell Research offers the possibility of finding cures for diseases such as Alzheimers and Parkinsons. This past week the issue of Stem Cell research has come to light because Michael J. Fox who suffers from Parkinsons did a campaign commercial for Claire McCaskill, a Democratic Senate Candidate in Missouri. In response to this and for reasons I am quite unsure of Rush Limbaugh felt the need to blast Fox on his radio show, even going so far as to mock the facial ticks that are a symptom of his Parkinsons. See the video here. I have never been a fan of Limbaugh but respected him as a person even as he admitted to an addiction to oxycontin, and inadvertantly (or at least I thought at the time)made racist comments while working as an NFL analyst. Not anymore. I have totally lost respect for him. Next week I will vote for candidates that support Stem Cell Research.

Links:  www.michaeljfox.org, www.claireonline.com, www.rushlimbaugh.com, YouTube Limbaugh video

Write To My Blog Part 2

Ok, I’ve played with Write To My Blog (which I mentioned a couple of posts ago) and I’ve started to discover it’s positives and negatives. On the plus side, I added it to my favorites and then went into the favorites folder and sent it as a shortcut to the desktop. It gave it the websites logo which is cool. I also dragged it into the quick launch on the taskbar. You can see this in my little screenshot. On the downside the only way you can add a picture is by adding a picture thats online somewhere like Flickr. So that means that I’m not using it to write this post. Overall I like it and plan on using it because it does make things simpler. I’ll just come here when I need to add a picture because I can’t add all of my pictures to flickr (without paying the 25 bucks a year which I’m not really wanting to do)

The $10 million Human Genome Contest

Ok, so I’m up and in a writing mood tonight. Anyway, I was on MSN.com (you know, the universal default microsoft homepage) today and I came across this interesting story. I’m taking Anatomy and Physiology 2 nights a week and for the last couple of weeks we’ve been studying DNA, and RNA. Thats why this story caught my interest. Anyway, The X Prize Foundation which is the group that had a 10 million dollar contest for the first person to make it into space a while back has another contest. They issued a 10 million dollar challenge to the first person who can map the human genome. They want someone to map 100 different human genomes in 10 days. This should be a tough challenge because I think there are like 30,000 genes in the human genome. But, to spice it up they are adding another million to that if they can decode the genomes of 100 more people, including some celebrities and wealthy donors such as physicist Stephen Hawking, talk-show host Larry King, Google co-founder Larry Page and Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen. If this is done I think it will be the first step in curing or preventing alot of diseases that are caused by gene mutations.

“Rapid genome sequencing is widely regarded as the next great frontier for science and will eventually allow doctors to determine an individual’s susceptibility to disease and even genetic links to cancer,” the foundation said. This prize will be called the Archon Genomics X Prize.

The article said that the money will be paid out if someone reaches this goal within the next 7 years. The money for this prize is coming from Stewart Blusson, president of Archon Minerals Ltd. Apparently this dude is “hell-bent on exploration.Of course, the twist is that to accomplish this it will cost $20 million..That seems kinda crazy, to spend $20 million to win a $10 million prize. I’m definitely gonna keep an eye on this because it would be cool if diseases like Lou Gherig’s disease, and Parkinsons went away in the next 10 to 20 years. You can read more about this here at msn.com where I read about this.

New TV Show….The Nine

You Might Not want to read any farther if you DVR’d “The Nine” and plan on watching it later.
Ok, so tonight I decided to check out the first episode of the new show “The Nine”. I was pleasantly suprised right off the bat to see Kim Raver who I know as Audrey Raines on “24″. I live for 24 in the late winter/early spring so it was cool to see her here. I also saw some more familiar faces including Tim Daly who used to play Joe Hackett on “Wings”, Scott Wolf who was on “Party of Five”, and a couple of people I’ve seen pop up in episodes of “Law and Order” and “CSI”. I thought this was a cool show and I want to see more episodes. Apparently these people are stuck as hostages in a bank robbery for 2 days. It doesn’t really tell us what it is but it’s definitely traumatic as they come back together to form a sort of support group at the end of episode one. The bank manager (who was the principal on “Boston Public” if you remember that show) and his teenage daughter were in there and are part of the nine former hostages. They seem to be drawn together by whatever happened to them in the bank. At the very end of the episode the managers daughter, who apparently has some form of amnesia because she can’t remember the 2 days she was a hostage, skips the get-together (group therapy) to go to the prison and visit the bank robber(I can’t wait to see whats up with that). If you TIVO’d or DVR’d this to watch you definitely should. I can’t wait til next week. It’s definitely better than “Jericho” (but I like “Jericho” too) but not as good as “24″(nothing is, not even “The Sopranos”)

Another of my Hobbies

I don’t know what made me think of this but something else I enjoy and haven’t done in a while is called Where’s George. I’m sure you’ve all heard of this but I got one of those bills one time and I was curious where it was from. I looked it up and it was from Cleveland. That was really neat, they even had a little note in there that said something like “George will be set free tonight downtown while checking out the Christmas lights….” So I decided to see what it took to do this. At first I got out the handy pen and wrote on the bills. I decided that wasn’t good enough so I looked around online and found some stamps. I did this alot for a while and I guess I got bored with it. Every once in a while I’ll get an email saying someone has entered one of my bills into the database. I think the farthest ones have traveled are NY, Florida, and Ohio (I’ve made a little map to show you where some of them went). I think it helps that I can see I-95 from my house and would just use the bills to buy gas or a drink at the truck stop. I highly recommend Where’s George because it’s fun to log in and see where a bill you had in your wallet is now.