Giuliani

Check out this quote from Rudy: ""This is the world we live in. It's not this happy, romantic-like world where we'll negotiate with this one, or we'll negotiate with that one and there will be no preconditions, and we'll invite (Iranian President Mahmoud) Ahmadinejad to the White House, we'll invite Osama (bin Laden) to the White House," Giuliani said.

"Hillary and Obama are kind of debating whether to invite them to the inauguration or the inaugural ball," he added."

Wow, before George Bush you would have to wonder how someone so obviously crazy could be a front runner for the nomination of a major political party in the United States. Now it's just business as usual for a candidate to publicly question the loyalty of his political opponents.

The other Kevin

I reckon they were both the other Kevin depending on which one you were talking about and/or to. For a while the Kevin that still lives in Michigan has had a link on the right side of this blog. Today, I add this nut's blog. Both Kevins were a grade ahead of me at Glen Lake High School in Maple City, MI. They were cool and funny and helped out an especially dorky freshman that didn't know enough to take his hat off inside a classroom. The new blogging Kevin is a pastor out in the Northwest and old blogging Kevin runs a maintenance department in an illegal bomb making facility in Northern Michigan. Who says militias are bad for the state's economy? Not me, I love militias. Secular jihadists, I call 'em.

Welcome to blogging, Kevin. Don't get fired because of it.

What the?

Somehow someone got to this blog by doing this search.

New Project

When I went up to Michigan in September my Aunt Carol gave me a quart freezer bag full of plastic slide cases. She told me take them and do what I wanted with them. The pictures on the slides were taken in the late 60's and early 70's by my grandfather, Edward Zimmer. He was my father's stepdad and I was named after him. I told my Aunt Carol that I would get the photos scanned and share the images with her and the rest of the family.

When I got back home from Michigan I realized getting all these slides scanned and put on a disc would probably cost three or four hundred dollars (if not more) and I would need a year or so (if not longer) to accomplish this. I decided to buy a scanner. The scanner cost a couple of hundred bucks but I think I came out ahead in the long run. Besides, now I got a scanner.

Over the past few weeks I have been scanning these photographs and posting them on Flickr. If you want a glimpse of life in Northern Michigan in the 60's then take a gander at this collection of photographs.

Pretty pictures

May I direct you to an amazing online photography exhibit that I found via Metafilter?

Candlelit Sorry

Last night when I got home from work around 9:30 the power was out. When I contacted Duke Energy the automated message informed me that the power would be on until around midnight. Luckily, I am a candle kinda person so I spent my first few minutes at home lighting candles.

Even though we missed most of game one of the World Series it really wasn't so bad. After a little while we broke out the Sorry game and Wendell, Mel and I had a rousing game where each of us threatened to win at one point. That bastard, Wendell, won the game even though he was about as far behind as you can get in a game of Sorry at one point. That is the beauty of that game, you really are never out of it until the eventual winner gets all his pieces safely home. Early in the game I had my last piece on square away from home and Wendell had two pieces still sitting Start. And he won. The creep.

How to go effectively organic

This is interesting. I guess if you want to go into organic eating lightly the New York Times gives you five food items that would have the most impact on the food industry. I'm surprised they don't mention eggs because I am already there with the organic eggs. They taste so much better than the regular old eggs I had been buying for years.

Are we ready?

Here's a nice interview with Hillary Clinton in the Guardian newspaper. It's interesting to note that the Guardian has started a U.S. version of their paper. In regards to Hillary's interview, I don't know if America is ready for a candidate for president that addresses executive power and terrorism rationally. I don't think we are there yet. Nice try though, hippy.

Why apologize?

Why does this guy, Representative Stark, feel he has to apologize to George Bush for insinuating that Bush enjoys war? Is there really anyone that doubts that this clown wanted nothing more than to go to war that he gets a thrill from being a War President? Remember when the London subway system was hit by those bombs? That day Bush was in full War President mode and you could see how satisfied he was knowing that on that day all he had to do was look resolute and blather pointlessly about war and strength. He gets off on this shit and it's too bad the one person to say it on the floor of the congress has been brow beaten into taking his words back.

Goodfellas

I watched Goodfellas for about the 10th time last night. Is there a better gangster movie? My favorite gangster movies in no particular order: Godfather, Miller's Crossing, Goodfellas, Pulp Fiction and The Sting. I do have one little piece of criticism about Goodfellas. I lose a little bit of interest once the movie movies deep into the 70's. There is just something a little more romantic about the gangster of the 40's and 50's, back when they wielded real power.

Colbert in NY Times

Great quote: "...George Bush has proved definitively that to be president, you don’t need to care about science, literature or peace."