Terrorist vs. non-Terrorist Test How about putting US tax dollars to good use by performing a gene study of persons convicted of violent crimes throughout the vast prison system in our country. Certainly a statistical break down of the data would point to a large percentage of these criminals sharing a particular genetic make up. Once this has been established then a simple blood test should be developed that could be given to every alien entering our borders. It should be a test that gives instant results like the blood type tests given by any blood bank donor center. If you pass the test, you can enter, if you don't, you can't!

I just watched HBO's special on the Daniel Pearl kidnap and murder and I recommend that anyone who happens to read this blog, download and watch it. It made me understand the utter futility that jihadists and terrorists of all stripes should come to terms with. All of their acts of violence against innocent people is evil! You will never achieve one iota of what you hope to gain by murdering people that you perceive as your enemy. If you used all the money and all your efforts in a civilized and constructive manner you would be far better off. Their suicide bombers are thought to be brave and are promised instant paradise, but they should instead question why their handlers are not willing to sacrifice their own lives for their cause?

Winds of Change.NET: The Case for Invading Iran

The current regime in Iran has proven time and time again that they are not friends of the Western world and with their proclivity to support terrorist organizations with vast sums of money along with modern weaponry, if they should continue on their current path towards developing nuclear arms, once achieving their quest, would they not give these weapons to their Muslim brothers? For instance, a dirty fissile devise that could kill hundreds of thousands and contaminate cities for thousands of years! Are we willing to risk our cities to the whims of whatever mullah enjoys the will of the Iranian population at the moment?

I still think that President Bush made a grave mistake when he invaded Iraq, but perhaps it could be used to our advantage by a rapid pull out of our troops leaving the Iraqis to solve their own political and cultural differences. The chaos that this would lead to will directly draw the Iranians into the conflict and once their troops are committed the U.S. should invade Iran and force a regime change in Tehran after destroying their capabilities to develop nuclear arms. Of course you would want the UN to condemn their weapons making policies first, and if they refuse to comply, send in the troops!

The Arab nations have so much hatred and animosity towards one another that they will have their hands full killing one another that they won't have the stomach for attacking the West! However, if one of them should, they can count on the wrath of the West to rain down upon them, thus weakening them to the point where their Arab brothers will come in a finish the dirty work!

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The current President of the United States has lied to the American people so often that I refuse to believe anything that he says! There are many Americans who want to impeach Bush for his dishonesty but if Bush were kicked out of office who would take his place, an even worse liar, Dick Cheney! The crimes that former president Richard Nixon committed while he was in office are minor in comparison to what Bush has continuously shoveled out. Have you noticed Bush's evil grimace that he displays before answering a reporter's question during a press conference, before he begins spinning his web of untruths? If he was hooked up to a polygraph it is doubtful that anything that he says could be determined to be truthful! I think that the Democrats in Congress should band together and make his life as miserable as they possibly can until he retreats in disgrace to Crawford, Texas!

FEAR vs. COURAGE

America At A Crossroads

This PBS program ought to be made mandatory for every American to view, including the ass holes who haunt the White House! It shows the ugly realities of war! I am still dumbfounded as to why President Bush put our armed forces personnel in harm's way in the dirty little war that he chose to initiate! There ought to be a law that states if the President decides to take military action in any foreign land, his children shall be among the first American's to serve their nation and subject to all the dangers that face every soldier!

If Bush's two daughters would have had to face the brutalities of war or becoming a casualty of war, I wonder if he would have been so fucking gung ho! It hurts me to have to say this about any of America's presidents, but I have lost all respect for Bush and I count the days until his moronic administration comes to it's conclusion!

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I've been reading a PDF version of Brad Hill's Blogging For Dummies (2006) in order to learn how I can use Blogger.com more effectively. I'm hoping that it will say something about using HTML when editing your posts but after reading the first 50 pages it has yet to mention anything about HTML. The first web site that Hill mentions that I found worthy of bookmarking was BlogPulse , which I highly recommend if you wish to search using a blog-specific search engine. In fact, when I searched "Bobsblog" (the name of my blog at Blogger.com) it returned a large number of my past posts! It even located a photo of myself that I had posted a while back that I was having trouble finding! I hope that the next 50 pages of this book has more information that appeals to me than the first 50!

This is a photo snapped of me the day after my 35th birthday! Looks like I had a rough night!

WHY I DON'T LIKE CELL PHONES I hate it whenever someone calls me using their cell phone and when I am forced to call someone on their cell phone because they no longer have a land line. I imagine, like one of the current TV advertisements suggest, that some services are better than others, meaning that they cover wider areas and they experience fewer dropped calls. One would think that living in a large metropolis like San Diego that one should never experience a dropped call, but I've had it happen on numerous occasions. This makes me wonder if these dropped calls might be caused by the owners of these cell phones not having properly charged their phones to begin with! Since I don't have any use for them personally I am resolved to make it a point of hanging up on anyone who calls me with their cell phone at the slightest indication of interference! Should they call back, I will tell them that the call was terminated on their side and that either they were calling from an area that had weak coverage or that their batteries must need recharging! One last gripe, I have heard that the California State Legislature has passed a law about using cell phones when driving in a motor vehicle that goes into effect next year. I can barely wait for this to hopefully put an end to all the preoccupied idiots that think that they can drive responsively while trying to operate their cell phones. If the city of San Diego is looking for a cash cow to solve their financial woes at city hall, I suggest that they equip their traffic officers with devices that will identify people using their cell phones while driving their vehicles! Cha-ching!

DO YOU HAVE A SOUL BROTHER? I'm not talking about the cultural sort of "Soul Brother" like the late James Brown or Ray Charles, I'm talking about the spiritual "Soul Brother" that I never knew existed until I had made a fifteen minute phone call earlier tonight!

• It is a wonderful feeling that you know that you have a friend for life!
• A friend that loves you unconditionally!
• A friend that you can always be truthful with, knowing that whatever you reveal to them, even your deepest and darkest secrets, who will not condemn you for them!
• A friend that is willing to hide his disappointment in you for not showing up at his bedside when he was in the hospital near death because he understands my reasons for not visiting him!
• A friend that you can empathize what he must have felt as he saw his life slowly slipping away!
• A friend that you can always depend upon to fight the "good" fight with every ounce of his strength!
• A friend that you can have diametrically opposing views about a topic and engage in vehement debate over the topic and come to the conclusion that we can agree to disagree!
• I am filled with joy by the news that my "Soul Brother", the best friend that I could ever ask for has survived a burst appendix that wasn't properly diagnosed until two or three weeks after the fact.
• I was afraid to talk to him during his illness because I didn't know how I would handle hearing his weakened voice or looking at his frail body!
• My friend, Steve Young, who I have known since 1967 has revealed himself as being my "Soul Brother", although I haven't told him how this happened. Once I have retraced the progression that this life-long process has followed and I can begin to formulate an opinion on how or why it happened as it did, I will tell him. Then I will await him to say, "That's all very interesting, but do you believe it to be the truth?" Which will give me a sense of being one of the twelve apostles at his Master's feet answering my questions with His questions that make you have to think about what it is to be a human being?
• I have always suspected that Steve came to know that he was a special person early in his adulthood! His keen perception, I thought, may have mislead him a time or two, but I also had a deep sense that there was some sort of hidden agenda that he was unable to clue the uninitiated to, so that they would be able to understand.
• Steve told me that he was a chosen man, for what I do not know! He alluded to his being something similar to a Messiah! I am glad to say that he has not left me after he was resurrected!
• When he visited Israel and Palestine and we discussed the ongoing Israeli-Palestinian conflict he made me understand how oppressed the majority (Palestinians) has become under the rule of the minority (Israelis). Which made it clear as to why America is so hated in the Arab world! America stands for hypocrisy not democracy! If democracy were allowed in the occupied territories that Israel has confiscated from the Palestinians the Israelis would be unanimously voted out of all political offices and the Israeli government would be forced to negotiate with Palestine on an equal basis. That is why all previous negotiations have failed in the past and they will continue to fail far into the distant future because Israel has refused to give back all the territory that they have confiscated from the Palestinians as one of the conditions in any negotiation. As Israel tries to justify the land grab that they enforced against Palestine by the building of "security fences" they further embitter the Palestinian. The building of the "security fences" have nothing to do with ensuring security it is a term that the Israeli government finds to be palatable for what is in effect their policy of "divide and conquer"!
• Don't get me started on David Bowie!

Thank you Steve! I'm glad that you are on the road to making a full recovery "Soul Bro"!

Andy Rooney's commentary at the end of 60 Minutes tonight about voting and democracy made me wonder if all important decisions that are left to politicians as they currently are, could be put to a vote by the American people, what a different country we would live in. Think about: No war in Iraq, a national health program, a higher minimum wage, etc.

As I watch Tuesday night's "Charlie Rose" program on PBS, I am mystified why Pres. George Bush has decided that the government of Iran is one that he includes in his broad definition of the "Axis of Evil". As it turns out, Iran gave assistance to the U.S. in establishing a new government in Afghanistan, yet the Bush administration has not acknowledged Iran's involvement. Bush has no concept of the word "diplomacy"! I think that Bush's disastrous presidency can be summed up as follows: "My way, or the highway!"

Thomas Friedman's take on Bush sending more troops to Iraq

New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman had a very insightful interview with Tavis Smiley last night on PBS. Mr. Friedman said that should President Bush's sending of an additional 25,000 troops to Iraq fail to stabilize the violence, Bush will go down in history as a utter failure! I am in complete agreement with this assessment of Bush and I'm sorry to say that his plan of introducing more troops is doomed to fail!

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FIRE BLAZES AT 3623 INDIA STREET

I awoke this morning to the sound of fire engine sirens at about 5:30 AM today. I got dressed and walked down India Street to see what was going on. As soon as I reached India I could see there was a huge fire burning a couple of blocks away. There were about five or six fire trucks at the scene by this time, however they must have just arrived as I could see flames leaping from the building as I walked closer. There was also a huge amount of black smoke which meant that the firemen had not gotten much water on it. The fire originated in an office space just above the Route 44 Skateboard Shop at 3623 India Street and before firefighters were able to put it out both businesses were total losses.

I talked to a guy that had a $3,500.00 Sony DV camera mounted on a nice tripod who was taping various scenes of the fire and I learned that he will sell his footage to one of the local television stations to be broadcast on their news. He didn't want to answer my question of how much he would be paid for it, so I assume that it is rather lucrative. He probably listens to police and fire department scanners and when he hears of something substantial going down, he goes to the scene of the incident and tapes it. He probably knows several of the news producers at the six local television stations that broadcast local news and arranges to sell his footage to them. He said it didn't matter if he had 20 seconds or 20 minutes of tape because he sold it to them at a flat rate.

Complaint to CBS Sports about Randy Cross's Favoritism of the Oakland Raiders

As I watched the Oakland Raiders at the San Diego Chargers NFL game I was upset by color analyst Randy Cross's completely biased comments against the Chargers after a controversial illegal forward pass ruling by the referee during the second half. This is not the first time that Cross has expressed his preferences for the Raiders when they have played the Chargers and I think that CBS owes an apology to all Charger fans for Mr. Cross's comments. Isn't it a requirement that all CBS sportscasters not have a favorite team? Cross is an undeniable Raider fan and it is affront to every Charger fan who is subjected to his unbridled bias against San Diego! I think that CBS management should discipline Cross for this behavior or at a minimum, it should not assign Cross to broadcast Oakland vs San Diego games. It would be a shame if we were denied Dick Enberg's expert broadcast skills on account of Cross's biased opinions, so I would hope that CBS would make it clear to him to keep his personal favoritism to himself!

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Still, the White House had to battle the perception that Bush was doing his party as much harm as good _ and was unwanted in some districts. The White House did not hide its irritation when the Florida GOP gubernatorial candidate, Charlie Crist, skipped a chance to campaign at Bush's side in the Florida Panhandle. Crist said his support was firm there and it made more sense to campaign elsewhere in the state.

Why not tell the truth, Crist more likely wanted to distance himself from any connection to President Bush!

I am very fortunate in that I have a sizeable stock porfolio which I am able to meet my needs by the quarterly dividends that accrue. Some of my friends are aware of my good fortune and it seems whenever they find themselves in financial difficulty, they will ask me for a timely loan. I wouldn't mind loaning them the money if it wasn't so fucking hard to get them to pay me back! As a matter of fact, one of these so-called (dead beat) friends hasn't made any effort to repay me $3,000.00 that I loaned her over a period of time while we were dating, that I'm going to have to get ugly. Sometime in January 2007, I'm going to pay her a visit and demand that she fork over her entire income tax refund for 2006. If she isn't willing to hand it over, I'll tell her that I'll have to sue her in small claims court which will more than likely end up in my garnishing her wages. This fucking bitch is living in a dream world if she thinks that she can keep postponing the repayment of this debt!

Whenever someone asks me to loan them money it seems that they all lose sight of reality when it comes to the promises that they make to repay. A good friend that I loaned $1,200.00 to a few months ago so that he could pay his overdue rent, promised that he would repay me within a couple of weeks. He never called me to tell me that the check for some work that he had done designing web sites had arrived. When I sent him an email stating my concerns he took offense to my telling him that he was not living up to his end of the bargain. I quickly muted his objections by saying that he was trying to change our original agreement after the fact that I'd loaned him the money. Since I'm going to be in his neighborhood today when I visit the barber who cuts my hair, I'm going to give him a call to see how much of the $800.00 that he still owes me he can pay today!

Another thing that seems to go with loaning friends money is that their opinion of you takes a drastic change. One would think that they would be grateful to you, even if they still hadn't repaid their debt in full, but it has been my experience that quite the opposite takes place. They don't come right out and say it but they may as well, since their treatment reflects the resentment that they have for me! Somehow, I suppose that they see their inability to repay me in a timely manner, as they agreed to at the time that they received the loan (I always allow them to state this in their own words), as somehow being my fault. They get things so fucking twisted that they can actually justify placing the blame on me and thus, make me out to be the bad guy, for their own shortcomings!

Another gripe that I have about lending money to people is that they are less willing to do me a favor should I need one. For instance, the guy who owes me $800.00 is widely known as a computer geek. He is the best technician that I've ever known and he has walked me through many a problem that I've had to resort to asking him for his help. I'm sure he knows that I will only ask him to help me as a last resort, as often times, through trial and error, I am able to find the solution to the problem that I'm having on my own (which is much more gratifying). It has been over two weeks now that Windows XP Pro SP2 crashed on my PC. I've had this happen before and in a worst case scenario I have always been able to wipe out all the data on my hard drive and reload the OS. This last time, however, whenever I try to reinstall XP Pro the installation process hangs. I've repalced the hard drive and the memory with new hardware and it still hangs. I was able to install Windows ME without a hitch and I've tried to upgrade ME to XP Pro without success. I've made this known to my geek friend and he has yet to offer his help. I mean the guy owes me $800.00 that was supposed to be repaid months ago, although he has offered to pay interest (which I have declined up to this point), but he can't show me his gratitude by offering to give me hand diagnosing why XP Pro will not install. May be he thinks I deserve to have to suffer through my problem since he can't repay me when he promised he would, I don't know, but it seems to me, if he were truly grateful for my helping him out of a jam, that he would be more than happy to help me out with my problem. As things stand at this point, I'm going to ask him to read this blog entry and then wait to hear what he has to say. Who knows, may be I'm missing something? I doubt it, though!

I wrote an email to the KPBS show "Full Focus" last night making the suggestion that MCRD is the logical choice for the expansion of Lindberg Field rather than relocating it to the Marine Air Base at Miramar. To my surprise, Gloria Penner, the host of "Full Focus", read my email on tonight's show. Word for word!

I do not wish to subtract anything when it comes to the treatment of our wounded soldiers fighting an unwinable war in Iraq, but I would like you to ponder this for a moment: Think about how the federal government could improve the lives of all Americans if we weren't wasting billions of dollars in Iraq?

Here's a photo of Bob!