You Know More Than You Think
Today I learned something important. I can do more than I ever thought I could.
Where I work, besides being an advertising company, we also own a radio station. Anyway, the guy that used to take care of the station when it went down is no longer with our company. This means that I have to take care of it.
Having no experience in radio whatsoever, fixing the station when parts of it decide to go 'on vacation' is a daunting task. Ther are huge racks of equipment, 27,000 some odd knobs, and more lights than a Boeing 747 decked out like a Christmas tree.
Deciphering how everything works is like tracking a polar bear in the middle of a blizzard.
The Cableing nightmare behind the racks doesn't help, either. Whoever hooked up that stuff MUST have taken some type of Russian Basket-Weaving class. The wires are tangled, un-labeled, and mostly the same color. This makes finding the right cable like looking for the Rathergate fraud culprit - you know it's in there somewhere, but it's almost not worth digging it out.
But, I have to do it. Because the buck stops here. If it breaks - I'm the one who's gotta fix it. So, I try, and so far, so good. With the manufacturer on the phone, and asking questions, I'm starting to figure it out. It's not the funnest thing in the world - building tv commercials & dvd's are - but I'll get the hang of it.
"Nothing fixes a problem - any problem - like a sledgehammer." - Donald Rumsfeld
"Thank You America"
"The people of Iraq want to say one thing to the people of America: 'Thank you America!'".
Today, Iraqi Prime Minister Ayad Allawi spoke before Congress, and successfully debunked every anti-war sentiment and idea that has been going on in our country and in every other country. He delivered a powerful speech that, if you narrow it down, had five basic points:
1.) Iraq is better now than it was before.
2.) Things aren't the best, but they're getting much better - they could hold elections today in 14 out of 18 provinces.
3.) "Your media never shows the good things." (I couldn't have said it better myself.)
4.) In January, elections WILL be held.
5.) He also illiterate that almost every Iraqi he's met since moving back from London loves America and is eternally grateful for America ousting Saddam.
I don't even have a commentary on this. It was a great speech, and it's good to see that somebody's finally pointing out the obvious.
I raise my glass of Pepsi to you, Mr. Allawi. Live long, and prosper.
Picking The President
While getting ready for bed tonight I saw something while watching FoxNews. They had these liberal guys from the Kerry campaign ranting and raving about how we should never have gone to war in Iraq, and that we should pull out right now.
I like to think that I'm a guy who's pretty level-headed. It really does take a lot for me to get angry. Then these two liberal characters called Iraq a "quagmire" and that we were "repeating Vietnam".
Enough is Enough.
The people who believe these things have some serious logical problems. These are the same people that would be complaining about President Bush if he hadn't have gone into Iraq. Facts are facts here, folks. We saved those people from a brutal inhumane dictator.
So, seeing as my brain has kicked into high gear, I'm going to write this before I hit the sack. Here we go -
"Iraq Is Turning Out Like Vietnam"
In Vietnam, we showed up in 1965, and left in 1973. That's 8 years. How long have we been in Iraq? 2 years. Is Iraq like Vietnam? No. Why? Because we're winning.
Second argument:
"Iraq Is A Quagmire"
Let me get this straight. We can't pick an American Idol in 30 some odd weeks, but we're supposed to already have invaded, taken over, rebuilt the country's entire infastructure, brought them out of the stone age, held nationwide elections, and eradicated all the terrorists in two years?
Obviously logic runs short in these people.
And for the rest of the liberals that say that President Bush has no foreign policy, think of this. We're listened to now. Nations understand that when President Bush gives a deadline, he's not going to keep handing them out when you don't meet them like a drunken pez dispenser on halloween. These countries now understand: When there's a deadline, you better meet it.
Notice that as soon as we invaded Iraq, countries that wouldn't listen before "mysteriously" started to conform to the regulations set forth by the U.N. Lybia handed over it's nukes, and even North Korea decided that it might be time to do the right thing. Amazing.
I'm voting for President Bush.
Why? Because we all know that 10 out of 10 terrorists don't want him in office anymore.
Star Wars Is Still Cool
Well, yesterday Star Wars came out on DVD. I went over to Allen's house to watch it on his 48" HDTV with a surround sound that would make the best audiophile weep openly. It's a great setup.
We scanned through several of them - and I'll say it again. They're not just great - they're amazing on DVD. The quality is amazing, and so are the re-vamped special effects.
One of the greatest thing about the Trilogy is the simple fact that neither one is a terrible movie (like the last two were in the Matrix Trilogy) and they are vastly entertaining without any type of swearing, nudity, or objectionable material. - It proves that you don't need all of that to make a great movie.
Here's to hoping that Episode III doesn't let us down.
I'm Not Superman
Well…that hurts. I go to swat an abhorrent mosquito who seems intent on sitting on my new monitor, when I accidentally slip and “whack!”. - My hand hits the edge of the desk. It’s not as dull as one might think. Well, I bludgeoned my finger open. It’s bleeding…a little. It’s already starting to stop…it doesn’t hurt that much. Maybe I’ll get lucky and get a scar out of it.
Wait…there it is. Flying around my monitor. I must have missed it. I can hear it…it’s laughing at me. I’m typing by the glow of my sapphire keyboard with the lights out simply because the lights in my apartment make the temperature rise to pretty un-acceptable levels. I’m not talking about warm. I’m talking about sitting here with a tin of muffin batter, and ten minutes later, you’ve got muffins ready to eat.
Anyway, with the lights out, I can only see the mosquito when it flies in front of the screen, then it flies into the darkness on either side and it’s gone…until it goes for another strafing run that is. Then it’s there again…and I can hear the evil thing chuckling.
Dillemma - Turn the light back on, and the mosquito may stop bothering me but the lights in here could cremate me, or leave the lights off, and do nothing while the mosquito continues it's bombing run?
My finger does hurt now, I guess.
I just had a brain fart - I can’t help but wonder - I wonder if Superman can get a tan?
