HWY 50 to Ice House Road, left at Wentworth Springs, follow into Auburn.  that is a GREAT time.

i am extremely concerned at the tax payer cost of such a proposition being implemented. 

par for the course.  i am not surprised even a little.  irritated, yes, but surprised?  please. 
i didnt vote for him once.  i didnt vote for him twice.  but i have little doubt that it wouldnt make much difference in the long run if it was him, or someone else who was in office.  the problem i have with most people holding office, especially long time spot holders, is that we do not have a next generation voice.  we have baby boomers running a country that is quickly being staffed by emerging gen x and gen y kids.  the ideals are different, the voices are different.  the govt isnt changing with the country, the up and comers are alienated. 
we need a gen y candidate here in sacramento.  why are we allowing the people who know nothing about our generation to make legislation for it?

 

the very idea of this, the thought alone, is enough to make me want to choke the life out of someone.
i was unaware we were obligated to challenge any country, regardless of our military numbers.  i suppose the better argument (imnsho) would be, "Well, since we dont have enough people on our team, i guess we cant play." 
i cant think of a better thing to forfeit than another useless war.

the Wii isnt causing the panic the PS3 did.  one winning bid on ebay for a presale ticket went for 10K. 
on the plus side, i saved 600 bucks and can play one of my friends units they stood in line to get.  then, after the first of the year, i can pay 100 bucks less and get one that doesnt have to be upgraded or de bugged.

As Americans, we have a right to question our government and its actions. However, while there is a time to criticize, there is also a time to follow in complacent silence. And that time is now.

It's one thing to question our leaders in the days leading up to a war. But it is another thing entirely to do it during a war. Once the blood of young men starts to spill, it is our duty as citizens not to challenge those responsible for spilling that blood. We must remove the boxing gloves and put on the kid gloves. That is why, in this moment of crisis, I should not be allowed to say the following things about America:

Why do we purport to be fighting in the name of liberating the Iraqi people when we have no interest in violations of human rights—as evidenced by our habit of looking the other way when they occur in China, Saudi Arabia, Indonesia, Syria, Burma, Libya, and countless other countries? Why, of all the brutal regimes that regularly violate human rights, do we only intervene militarily in Iraq? Because the violation of human rights is not our true interest here. We just say it is as a convenient means of manipulating world opinion and making our cause seem more just.

That is exactly the sort of thing I should not say right now.

This also is not the time to ask whether diplomacy was ever given a chance. Or why, for the last 10 years, Iraq has been our sworn archenemy, when during the 15 years preceding it we traded freely in armaments and military aircraft with the evil and despotic Saddam Hussein. This is the kind of question that, while utterly valid, should not be posed right now.

And I certainly will not point out our rapid loss of interest in the establishment of democracy in Afghanistan once our fighting in that country was over. We sure got out of that place in a hurry once it became clear that the problems were too complex to solve with cruise missiles.

That sort of remark will simply have to wait until our boys are safely back home.

Here's another question I won't ask right now: Could this entire situation have been avoided in the early 1990s had then-U.S. ambassador to Iraq April Glaspie not been given sub rosa instructions by the Bush Administration to soft-pedal a cruel dictator? Such a question would be tantamount to sedition while our country engages in bloody conflict. Just think how hurtful that would be to our military morale. I know I couldn't fight a war knowing that was the talk back home.

Is this, then, the appropriate time for me to ask if Operation Iraqi Freedom is an elaborate double-blind, sleight-of-hand misdirection ploy to con us out of inconvenient civil rights through Patriot Acts I and II? Should I wonder whether this war is an elaborate means of distracting the country while its economy bucks and lurches toward the brink of a full-blown depression? No and no.

True patriots know that a price of freedom is periodic submission to the will of our leaders—especially when the liberties granted us by the Constitution are at stake. What good is our right to free speech if our soldiers are too demoralized to defend that right, thanks to disparaging remarks made about their commander-in-chief by the Dixie Chicks?

When the Founding Fathers authored the Constitution that sets forth our nation's guiding principles, they made certain to guarantee us individual rights and freedoms. How dare we selfishly lay claim to those liberties at the very moment when our nation is in crisis, when it needs us to be our most selfless? We shame the memory of Thomas Jefferson by daring to mention Bush's outright lies about satellite photos that supposedly prove Iraq is developing nuclear weapons.

At this difficult time, President Bush needs my support. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld needs my support. General Tommy Franks needs my support. It is not my function as a citizen in a participatory democracy to question our leaders. And to exercise my constitutional right—nay, duty—to do so would be un-American.

[stolen from the onion]

anybody else have the msnbc auto-refreshing election result window up?  if you do, or are otherwise monitoring the elections, you must be seeing what i am seeing. 
as of right now the democrats are +30 in the house, easily taking control.  unfortunately, the worst offenders are in that pork laden money machine that is our republican controlled congress.  28 states with democratic governors.   
Q and R were destroyed.  hoist a pint.
i am really hoping to see the Parent Notification measure continue to fail.

i wont go into too many specifics, i know, the there are still a lot of undecided out there.  i was just curious to see if anyone else was watching it all go down.

hi eric.  thanks for this place.  now i can divide my free time between two forums.  as soon as i find free time.
let me know if and when you need to wrangle up some moderators.  you know how i feel about the power trip...   

most people just call me d.  these are true statements about me.

1) i live in sacramento
2) i am a scion rep @ Maitas Scion of Sacramento
3) i am an avid fan of, and moderator on ystc.org
4) i am generally cynical.
5) some people find me abrasive
6) i might be the nicest guy you ever met
7) i might not.
i embrace the contraction, but i dont use the apostrophe

cant wait to see where this goes.