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9.3.2004
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haven't we heard this speech?
got this from tim who got it from kos.
the Slate - For $2.4 trillion, guess what word--other than "a," "and," and "the"--occurs most frequently in the acceptance speech George W. Bush delivered tonight.

The word is "will." It appears 76 times. This was a speech all about what Bush will do, and what will happen, if he becomes president.
Except he already is president. He already ran this campaign. He promised great things. They haven't happened. So, he's trying to go back in time. He wants you to see in him the potential you saw four years ago. He can't show you the things he promised, so he asks you to envision them. He asks you to be "optimistic." He asks you to have faith [...]

Recession. Unemployment. Corporate fraud. A war based on false premises that has cost us $200 billion and nearly a thousand American lives. They're all hills we've "been given to climb." It's as though Bush wasn't president. As though he didn't get the tax cuts he wanted. As though he didn't bring about postwar Iraq and authorize the planning for it. All this was "given," and now Bush can show up, three and a half years into his term, and start solving the problems some other president else left behind.
the author is dead on. how come bush is talking about things he WILL do? he's been in office for 4 years. this is the same speech he gave in 2000, when he was a candidate. our sitting president shouldn't be stumping w/will do's like a candidate. this just points out the fact the repubs don't want to focus on the first four years because everything dubya has touched has gone wrong. they chanted 4 more years at the RNC w/o ever touching on the first 4.

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happy anniversary
i'd like to give my parentals a big HAPPY ANNIVERSARY. today is their 33rd wedding anniversary. even though they may not think so, i have learned a lot about marriage & relationships through their not-always-so-perfect union. from dad, i learned to think before i speak to my wife. you don't always want to say the first thing that comes to your mind. from mom, i learned patience. even though she wasn't always the most patient person, she put up w/a lot w/o and only went ape $hit once...maybe twice. no matter what happened, the bottom line was that they always loved each other. in today's society where people divorce for silly reasons, my parents have endured some real hardships but managed to stay together through most of it. you guys are the model i use to mold my marriage. thanks, congrats & i love you.

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9.2.2004
93 octane would have saved her
i read the following in a report about 3/4 of a million people being evacuated from their homes in florida in anticipation of hurrican frances(damn you frances!!).
Patricia Thomas, 40, of Vero Beach, had trouble finding gas for BMW coupe because no stations had premium fuel.

"I just want to fill up my car and get far away from here," she said, her eyes puffy and red. "I'm mad, I'm frustrated, I'm scared. I'm not in a good place right now."
i use premium in my car too, but if there is a hurricane twice the size of ohio coming toward my home, i'll be syphoning gas out of the weedeater to get the hell out of dodge. she's the kinda person that gives bmw owners a bad name.

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opinion needed
just had this discussion w/some co-workers. do you think it's ok to let you child(4 to 6yrs old) use the word 'pissed' in their vocabulary? if not, do you think there's an appropriate age for them to say that word? before anyone assumes, i'm on the side of not letting the child use the word, but i couldn't really come up w/a good reason. it was always considered a curse word in my family growing up.


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can you spare some karma?
don't know if i've mentioned this before, but the fam & i are going on vacation to myrtle beach at the end of them month. it will be karen & i's first vacation since rome in september 2001. yes, we were in rome during the 9/11 attacks so we only got to enjoy half the vacation. my parents rented a house right on the beach. we'll be staying there w/my parents, my sister, her husband, their newborn daughter & possibly my aunt. of course, now i see hurrican frances taking aim for the atlantic coast. please don't destroy or harm the house. we NEED this vacation!! if you could, please send all your good vibes, karma, luck, anything you got our way in hopes that we can actually have a vacation this year.


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9.1.2004
9 years
9 years. today marks the 9th anniversary of the day i stepped off a plane in cleveland & saw karen w/my own eyes for the first time. as readers already know, karen & i had met in a chat room 5 months earlier in april 1995. i walked into the terminal, gazing around to find the person i had only heard & seen in pictures. i finally spot her & i get this nervous/anxious feeling in my stomach. it was kinda awkward meeting even though we probably knew each other better than most people already. she took me to meet her parents. i can only imagine what they thought walking into their house to find this long haired kid w/holey jeans alone w/their daughter. after the few days i spent up here w/her, i went back to huntsville knowing that i was going to be moving after graduation in december. while the past nine years have had their bumps(mostly in the beginning) & separation issues, moving here was the best decision i could have made. i am a better person for leaving it all for her. happy anniversary baby. i love you.

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