<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:blogger='http://schemas.google.com/blogger/2008' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005" xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8544577936408139207</id><updated>2024-12-18T19:24:13.591-08:00</updated><category term="Politics"/><category term="9/11"/><category term="Miscellaneous"/><category term="Poll Results"/><category term="Race Issues"/><category term="life in berkeley"/><category term="Blogging Faux Paus (my cats)"/><category term="Bottoming Out"/><category term="My Porn Career"/><category term="The Raiders"/><title type='text'>life in berkeley</title><subtitle type='html'></subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://berkeleypc.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8544577936408139207/posts/default?redirect=false'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://berkeleypc.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><link rel='next' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8544577936408139207/posts/default?start-index=26&amp;max-results=25&amp;redirect=false'/><author><name>Debbie Downer</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03395706902479269240</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>56</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>25</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8544577936408139207.post-8100558516544255124</id><published>2007-12-13T15:33:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2007-12-13T17:27:08.631-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Who&#39;s winning?</title><content type='html'>The battle of the name droppers....&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Obama and Oprah are like siblings... twins even...like the Olson twins...life is fun for them...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Hillary has Barbara... somehow that seems appropriate... they&#39;re both mostly cold and distant and ruthless when crossed.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And now Tim Robbins is riding the bus with John Edwards...I think they are probably lovers...  They are appropriate together simply because no one cares about either of them.  Tim admitted that he is no Oprah.  I think he figured that out when he was turned down for the role of Sophia.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Anyway, as the top 3 candidates strive to differentiate themselves by doing exactly what the other candidates are doing, only with different celebrities, I start to drift off into that hopeless area where I want to sit on a street corner, rock back and forth and sing quietly to myself.  Something happy and uplifting I&#39;m sure...something from the Sound of Music I think.  Or maybe &quot;Somewhere over the Rainbow&quot;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Hillary says Barack is too new and therefore lacks experience.  Well what about Oprah then?  She&#39;s been around the block a while.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Barack responds that there are some pretty experienced people in The White House now and it doesn&#39;t seem to have helped them make good decisions.  And no one can really argue with that.  Besides, Barack has Oprah on his side.  That was probably a good decision knowing that getting your book on Oprah&#39;s Book Club can mean millions.  And he did write a book after all.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Edwards says Hillary is a war monger and makes bad decisions because she signed on to allow Bush to attack a country that didn&#39;t attack us. Barack says that too.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Hillary is endorsed by evil also.  So far Rupert Murdoch is supporting her with money and Satan is her spiritual support.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Here&#39;s where she stands overall in the fundraising picture&lt;br /&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;li&gt;#2 - 1,600,000 Education&lt;/li&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;li&gt;#1 - 567,000 from Lobbyists&lt;/li&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;li&gt;#1 - 269,000 Pharmaceuticals/Health Products&lt;/li&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;li&gt;#3 - 220,000 Oil and Gas(#1 of Democrats)&lt;/li&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;For Contrast, heres&#39; Barack;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;li&gt;#1 - 2,000,000 Education&lt;/li&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;li&gt;#9 - 76,859 Lobbyists&lt;/li&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;li&gt;#7 - 106,000 Oil and Gas&lt;/li&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;li&gt;#2 - 261,000 Pharmaceuticals&lt;/li&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So for the evil meter they are actually pretty close in dollars bribed.  Except for the Lobbyists portion but we don&#39;t know if those are good lobbyists or bad lobbyists and unless a house falls on them we may never be sure, so we&#39;ll leave that small 10x difference slide for now.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And then there is the untainted (read loser), Dennis.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;li&gt;#12 - 37,000 Education&lt;/li&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;li&gt;#999 - 0 Lobbyists (Apparently can&#39;t be bribed)&lt;/li&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;li&gt;#17 - 700 Oil and Gas (won&#39;t even fill the tank for the year&lt;/li&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;li&gt;#13 - 5100 Pharmaceutical&lt;/li&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So there you have it.  With Dennis I&#39;m thinking about the chicken and the egg thing.  You know, is he losing because he&#39;s an upstanding moral politician untainted by the money in politics or is he untainted by the money in politics because he&#39;s losing.  It makes my brain hurt.  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Anyway, I&#39;ll probably ride the peace train with him next weekend so I can ask him what his take is on that.   &lt;br /&gt;  &lt;br /&gt;As for the race in general, in my mind I&#39;m back on the street corner again.  I&#39;m rocking back and forth and wondering why people can&#39;t see it as clearly as I do.  Its all for nothing.  Oil will win and Oil is supporting Guiliani, so I&#39;m keeping my money in my pocket. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So the whole thing to me now is a blah, blah, blah waste of time. Pretty soon your mind just shuts it all out and you vote for the best looking one because you know they are all corrupt and you also know you&#39;re going to have to listen to their political vomit for 4 to 8 years so if you decide to mute them then you can at least have something nice to look at.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So my prediction is that Hillary wins the Democratic side and Giuliani wins the whole enchilada. Of course with those two in the running, oil has stacked the deck.  Of course they would rather have Guiliani because he will keep focused on their interests and more wars for profit after the next staged terrorist attack. Most likely a nuke in our country, and they&#39;ll most likely blame it on Osama again.  Why go looking for new villains when they&#39;ve got that one still out there.  Besides, should Obama decide to run again in 2012, they&#39;ll be able to play their name conflation game again.  Osama, Obama, Osama, Obama.......&lt;div class=&quot;blogger-post-footer&quot;&gt;http://www.berkeleypc.blogspot.com&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8544577936408139207/posts/default/8100558516544255124'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8544577936408139207/posts/default/8100558516544255124'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://berkeleypc.blogspot.com/2007/12/whos-winning.html' title='Who&#39;s winning?'/><author><name>Debbie Downer</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03395706902479269240</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8544577936408139207.post-2733970890534042628</id><published>2007-10-01T20:23:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-10-15T20:51:33.331-07:00</updated><title type='text'>The Stepford Fans of Miami</title><content type='html'>fI was in Miami to watch the Dolphins and the Raiders duke it out last weekend.  yeeha!  LOL. It was damn weird.  I have never seen anything like it.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As I&#39;m getting ready I&#39;m trying to find the butchest teal and orange outfit I could find so I wouldn&#39;t be picked out as a Raiders fan and I finally settled on a light blue tshirt.  Close enough I thought, since the point was to not wear black.  That would surely get my ass kicked.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But it seems I was in for a totally surreal football experience.  I wondered for a few seconds if I wasn&#39;t the weird one, then I thought, naaah!  Here&#39;s what I mean.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I park in lot 15 right next to about 6 or 7 &#39;Dolfans&#39;.  (I didn&#39;t make it up.  That is what they call themselves, ‘Dolfans’.)  I wanted to make the Flipper neeehehehehe sound but that would surely get me to lose some teeth so I kept my mouth shut.  They were drinking beer and for all intents and purposes were the same as any Raider fan.  They disbursed before i could de-car and they headed in to the stadium.  I noticed that there seemed to be a little less racial diversity than at the Raiders games but other than that, so far, just another home team group supporting the home team.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So I start walking towards the stadium and just before I cross the street I hear &#39;Raiders.....Raiders.....Raiders....&#39;  the same nasally sound I always hear when at the home games only I feared this was mocking and that I had been found out.  I checked my hat, nope not a Raiders hat.  My shirt, light blue, blue jeans and brown boots.  Maybe it was my swagger I thought and then laughed to myself.  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I turned then to see about 20 guys in Silver and Black sitting around a couple of pickup trucks drinking beer.  And walking by them were some &#39;Dolfans&#39; in their manly teal and orange, just ignoring them.  I then noticed a couple of &#39;Dolfans&#39; right in the midst of some of the Raiders fans.  This can&#39;t be.  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So I&#39;m realizing this could be a totally different experience.  At Raiders home team if you forget and wear the wrong color t-shirt you may not ever be found again.  But in Miami, it was like everyone just gets along.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ok, just an interesting difference I was sure.  I went in, found my seat and then there were the cheerleaders.  Now I thought all NFL cheerleaders looked like they had just spent the night partying and getting fucked in the ass and then game day would drag themselves into the game wearing their pancake makeup to hide the lines and dark circles, but apparently that is not the case. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;These cheerleaders looked downright wholesame and all of 17.  Instead of looking like they&#39;d been ridden hard and put away wet as I was used to, they seemed like the young virtuous girls who went to the prom with daddy and had made the chastity until married vows.  And they really sucked.  I mean at cheering. And again, the flavors were limited.  Almost exclusively vanilla.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I could only laugh when they moved, every movement clean and pure, with their wholesome Colgate smiles, pleated skirts that had a weird shoulder top thing that covered down to below their relatively small, all natural, breasts.  They weren&#39;t flat, but the Raiders cheerleaders….well let’s just say… the Raiders cheerleaders consider their ‘racks’ an investment. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ok.  So, give them a break.  Things are different I thought.  It&#39;s what makes the world interesting.  And I focused on the awesome stadium and the diamond vision screens.  Hot.  You could see the football players and their equipment like you were next to them and the images were very detailed.  Now that&#39;s something I think the Raiders could use.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Then the music starts and that was it.  I was truly in a parallel football universe.  &#39;Sweet Caroline, good times never seemed so good…….’  This was followed by the capper:  the Miami Fight song, that the entire stadium sang along to at least once a quarter.  Please listen for the full effect.  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So, I lost it, with tears running down my face and laughing so hard that I’m shaking the seats as  I&#39;m listening to a packed stadium of fans, each of which knew every word, singing along.  Ok, now this is really different I thought.  Raiders fans, don’t sing, they rap.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I also had realized by then that there was a huge contingency of silver and black.  They were everywhere and the ‘Dolfans’ were so nice to them.  ‘Thanks for comin’ and kickin’ our asses guys.’  ‘Jeez it was cool hangin out with you.’ ‘come again, it’ll be fun.’&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So I realized that my very masculinity depended on my coming out.  It was now more frightening to be thought of as a ‘Dolfan’.  I would simply have to recapture my masculinity and I knew what I needed to do.  I figured if they were this wimpy, they probably had a stand that sold Raiders shirts and sure enough, they did, so I bought one.  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A tall, skinny, pimply faced, blonde kid, said something to his friend about it when I walked by.  I turned and stared him down and he quickly cowered.  What power I thought as I realized how they lived in fear of Raiders fans.   Knowing that at any minute a jacked up chevy with spinning rims could drive through the stands and take them all out with a semi-automatic. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Anyway,  of course, the Raiders kicked the Dolphins asses, much to the chagrin, and the ‘awe shucks, kick the can’ despair of the ‘Dolfans’.   As I’m standing there in my Raiders shirt and the ‘Dolfans’ are walking by a couple of them shake my hand and say ‘nice game, guys!’  LOL, not kidding… &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I remembered what my 7th grade history taught us about the American Indians.  According to her, the Indians that were nice and welcomed ‘the white man’ all ended up slaughtered and their tribes destroyed.  The ones that fought the white man are still around today.  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So if you’re having to choose between a football team and you believe that ‘tough’ is part of the game, who are you going to choose:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td width=&quot;150&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Oakland Raiders&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Pirates&lt;br /&gt;AC-DC&lt;br /&gt;Back in Black&lt;br /&gt;Silver and Black&lt;br /&gt;Hell’s Bells’&lt;br /&gt;44 double d’s&lt;br /&gt;&quot;Fuck me daddy&quot;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;td width=&quot;150&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Miami Dolphins&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Flipper&lt;br /&gt;Neil Diamond&lt;br /&gt;Sweet Caroline&lt;br /&gt;Teal and Orange&lt;br /&gt;Miami Fight Song&lt;br /&gt;pleated skirts&lt;br /&gt;daddy’s girl&lt;/td&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;td width=&quot;150&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I just don’t think I could ever live in Miami.&lt;div class=&quot;blogger-post-footer&quot;&gt;http://www.berkeleypc.blogspot.com&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8544577936408139207/posts/default/2733970890534042628'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8544577936408139207/posts/default/2733970890534042628'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://berkeleypc.blogspot.com/2007/10/stepford-fans-of-miami.html' title='The Stepford Fans of Miami'/><author><name>Debbie Downer</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03395706902479269240</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8544577936408139207.post-4741231552918385478</id><published>2007-10-01T17:22:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-10-01T17:25:10.016-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Britney Wins!  Hooray!</title><content type='html'>Britney&#39;s children have been removed.  From a reliable source we have this direct quote from her:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&quot;Thank god that&#39;s over!&quot;&lt;div class=&quot;blogger-post-footer&quot;&gt;http://www.berkeleypc.blogspot.com&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8544577936408139207/posts/default/4741231552918385478'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8544577936408139207/posts/default/4741231552918385478'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://berkeleypc.blogspot.com/2007/10/britney-wins-hooray.html' title='Britney Wins!  Hooray!'/><author><name>Debbie Downer</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03395706902479269240</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8544577936408139207.post-6589816257769763238</id><published>2007-09-28T21:09:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-09-28T21:36:23.478-07:00</updated><title type='text'>...and then there was Iran... and then there were none!</title><content type='html'>&lt;em&gt;&quot;If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the state can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie ... The truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the state.&quot; --Joseph Goebbels, minister of propaganda in Nazi Germany, 1933-1945&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Here&#39;s a great article on the start of the end of the world.  Have a look.  If your too lazy to educate yourself because for you everything it just fine, great!  Check out your local detention center to see where you&#39;ll be staying when you &lt;strong&gt;do&lt;/strong&gt; get mad and they have to take you away.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.rense.com/general17/statebystate.htm&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Free Showers!&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And the article:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.alternet.org/story/63632/?page=2&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;You will respect our authoritae!&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Anyway, here&#39;s an excerpt from the article above so you can at least know that they&#39;ve been planning on invading Iraq since 1992.  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Iraq&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Iraqi war was conceived in 1992, during the first Bush administration, in a 46-page document entitled Draft Defense Planning Guidance.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The document advocated the concept of preemptive war to assure the military and diplomatic dominance of the world by the United States. It asserted the need for &quot;… access to vital raw materials, primarily Persian Gulf oil.&quot; It warned of &quot;… proliferation of weapons of mass destruction.&quot; And it spoke of &quot;… threats to U.S. citizens from terrorism.&quot; It was the template for today&#39;s war in Iraq.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Draft Defense Planning Guidance was signed by the secretary of defense, Richard Cheney. It was prepared by three top staffers: Paul Wolfowitz, Lewis &quot;Scooter&quot; Libby and Zalmay Khalilzad-all of whom would fill high-level positions in the administration of George W. Bush, nine years in the future.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;&lt;&lt;&lt;&lt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;5 years later, PNAC was formed with some of our favorites: Richard (the Dick) Cheney, Paul Wolfowitz, Lewis &quot;Scooter&quot; Libby, Zalmay Khalilzad, Donald Rumsfeld and Jeb Bush.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Anyway, that&#39;s what&#39;s happening now.  Read the book the New Pearl Harbor, or just go back to sleep.  Who the hell cares at this point anyway.  Let em lock us up for disagreeing with them  Hell, maybe they&#39;re right!&lt;div class=&quot;blogger-post-footer&quot;&gt;http://www.berkeleypc.blogspot.com&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8544577936408139207/posts/default/6589816257769763238'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8544577936408139207/posts/default/6589816257769763238'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://berkeleypc.blogspot.com/2007/09/and-then-there-was-iran-and-then-there.html' title='...and then there was Iran... and then there were none!'/><author><name>Debbie Downer</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03395706902479269240</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8544577936408139207.post-4131596413778330774</id><published>2007-09-14T00:11:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-09-14T00:16:11.151-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Get your Bill O&#39;Reilly Jigsaw Puzzle</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgB0G5T8-ruqcHb3AEnzBbVzp_-mB22tZY_g15t82SusmPsjLXJbCxTZUem6_-foQ1fNJq2xUsAfY4Sw-EE3aFGGzGrL2Q6gdkx1PjRv8Gdf8ECw6h0y55t7SighTb7p-vbxoWJm2fGnFdy/s1600-h/torfpuzzle_reg.jpg&quot;&gt;&lt;img style=&quot;float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;&quot; src=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgB0G5T8-ruqcHb3AEnzBbVzp_-mB22tZY_g15t82SusmPsjLXJbCxTZUem6_-foQ1fNJq2xUsAfY4Sw-EE3aFGGzGrL2Q6gdkx1PjRv8Gdf8ECw6h0y55t7SighTb7p-vbxoWJm2fGnFdy/s200/torfpuzzle_reg.jpg&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; alt=&quot;&quot;id=&quot;BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5109954607803085794&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.billoreilly.com/p/Clearance/The-Bill-OReilly-Jigsaw-Puzzle/19389.html?dispid3=202#&quot;&gt;http://www.billoreilly.com/p/Clearance/The-Bill-OReilly-Jigsaw-Puzzle/19389.html?dispid3=202#&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Hurry, they are now marked down to $4.95.  Sure to be a collectors items.  And don&#39;t worry, Bill tested them and he was able to put it together himself.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The box says ages 4 and up, so hurry on down!&lt;div class=&quot;blogger-post-footer&quot;&gt;http://www.berkeleypc.blogspot.com&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8544577936408139207/posts/default/4131596413778330774'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8544577936408139207/posts/default/4131596413778330774'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://berkeleypc.blogspot.com/2007/09/get-your-bill-oreilly-jigsaw-puzzle.html' title='Get your Bill O&#39;Reilly Jigsaw Puzzle'/><author><name>Debbie Downer</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03395706902479269240</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgB0G5T8-ruqcHb3AEnzBbVzp_-mB22tZY_g15t82SusmPsjLXJbCxTZUem6_-foQ1fNJq2xUsAfY4Sw-EE3aFGGzGrL2Q6gdkx1PjRv8Gdf8ECw6h0y55t7SighTb7p-vbxoWJm2fGnFdy/s72-c/torfpuzzle_reg.jpg" height="72" width="72"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8544577936408139207.post-5636342065219419275</id><published>2007-09-13T23:24:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-09-13T23:58:53.063-07:00</updated><title type='text'>A non-political post</title><content type='html'>Ok, the end of the world is coming soon and there is nothing any one is going to do about it, so I&#39;ll just sit back and sip martini&#39;s and watch.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;CNN was talking about a bomb that Israel dropped on Syria today.  Syria says it didn&#39;t happen, that they flew over but dropped nothing. CNN reported that if a bomb was dropped it would have had to have been a bunker buster bomb, and if that was the case then it would have had to have come from the US.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I suppose it could have been the extra nuke that was missing from the 6 that were flown across the US.  Apparently there were only 5 there when they landed.  I&#39;m sure Cheney probably loaded the extra one in his suitcase and then took it over to Israel.  Just a little gift.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;With that in mind, Cheney is probably now radioactive and going to go the way of The Trash Can man in Stephen King&#39;s The Stand.  Where he is carrying the bomb that is &lt;a href=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjsP5J_CdlW-P-izK0AZ1rzJxTHjqU2Giv8mt8hCNAnK1WRqwH2W4H2aQ8F_Xr2HY7tXtk7jzfg7oP1RnMtbV44S0ZAJ4LMKv5qcSpgcyRGNBA71y7Q3LItLOORY-zqvtmL_Guj3uqgADO6/s1600-h/Cheney+as+Dr+Evil.jpg&quot;&gt;&lt;img style=&quot;float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;&quot; src=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjsP5J_CdlW-P-izK0AZ1rzJxTHjqU2Giv8mt8hCNAnK1WRqwH2W4H2aQ8F_Xr2HY7tXtk7jzfg7oP1RnMtbV44S0ZAJ4LMKv5qcSpgcyRGNBA71y7Q3LItLOORY-zqvtmL_Guj3uqgADO6/s200/Cheney+as+Dr+Evil.jpg&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; alt=&quot;&quot;id=&quot;BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5109946189667185618&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;supposed kill all that is good and therefore the force of evil rules the world.  At the end he&#39;s got limbs falling off his body but he is still carrying on with his Dr. Evil plan.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And now George is planning on... (trumpets please)...&quot;Staying the Course&quot;.  Imagine that.  Who could of guessed it?  He&#39;ll leave this mess for the next president.  I love how the neocons love to use their one line argument against any critics of the mess this administration has made of... well of everything, basically.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;They love to ask, &quot;How would you fix the problem in Iraq, cut and run?&quot;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;How about this for a response:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&quot;That&#39;s pretty typical isn&#39;t it.  You lie about the reasons for the war, create a quagmire and then look to the democrats and say, &#39;How are you going to fix it?&#39; A responsible leader wouldn&#39;t have gotten into this mess in the first place.  Our only hope now is to remove the idiots that created the mess.  There is quite simply no one on the planet who could not have done a better job than President Bozo!&quot;  Then pull out a picture of George Bush with a clown nose attached and pinch the clown nose so it honks!  That should shut them up.&lt;div class=&quot;blogger-post-footer&quot;&gt;http://www.berkeleypc.blogspot.com&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8544577936408139207/posts/default/5636342065219419275'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8544577936408139207/posts/default/5636342065219419275'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://berkeleypc.blogspot.com/2007/09/non-political-post.html' title='A non-political post'/><author><name>Debbie Downer</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03395706902479269240</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjsP5J_CdlW-P-izK0AZ1rzJxTHjqU2Giv8mt8hCNAnK1WRqwH2W4H2aQ8F_Xr2HY7tXtk7jzfg7oP1RnMtbV44S0ZAJ4LMKv5qcSpgcyRGNBA71y7Q3LItLOORY-zqvtmL_Guj3uqgADO6/s72-c/Cheney+as+Dr+Evil.jpg" height="72" width="72"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8544577936408139207.post-7871292896128074370</id><published>2007-09-11T00:00:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-09-11T00:06:11.365-07:00</updated><title type='text'>An Epic Battle is Upon Us</title><content type='html'>September 8, 2007 - They’re drawing up sides, sharpening their swords and preparing for the epic battle of all times.  A new day is upon us.  What is the reason for this battle? It’s, &lt;trumpets please&gt; The Petraeus Report.  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The report we’ve all been waiting for, the key to our continued involvement, or to our drawdown of troops, in Iraq.  The report that will finally give us the answers to the question, “Should we stay in Iraq?”  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So the Bush Administration has been on their campaign for a while now.  George did his famous surprise visit to Iraq.  You have to wonder if the reason he shows up there unannounced is because he might be overwhelmed by all the roses the Iraqi people would be foisting on him.  Certainly, too many roses could be detrimental to his health and safety.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;After surveying the situation for himself from safe inside the hangar, he then headed down to Austria, (note, it was really Australia but George heard it wrong) to speak to OPEC.  (Again, George blundered.  He was speaking to APEC).  Then miracle of miracles, after his speech, someone saved him before he walked off the edge of the stage to his certain demise.  When I heard that my first thought was who benefits from saving him?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;He caps off the day by telling South Korean President Roh Moo-hyun that he can’t declare peace with South Korea until North Korean President Kim Jong Il gets rid of his weapons. I think George thinks it’s really just Korea, with a Northern Korea and a Southern Korea, just like there is a Northern and Southern California.  “Or as North Dakota and South Dakota are both part of Dakota!”, he would argue. &lt;br /&gt;http://www.nydailynews.com/news/wn_report/2007/09/08/2007-09-08_president_bush_blunders_at_apec_summit_i.html&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And then there are the Democrats, armed and ready to stand up to this administration.  They have their GAO report that says Iraq has only met 3 of their 18 benchmarks. With that they are now ready to stomp their feet and holler about how the war isn’t working and we should bring home the troops and if we don’t then we will have more blood on our hands for a war that we never should have been in in the first place. &lt;br /&gt;  &lt;br /&gt;This even though they voted for the war so they wouldn’t look like wimps and refused to defund the war because they wanted to appear tough, these, the same people who took impeachment off the table so they wouldn’t look partisan.  The ones who voted for new wiretapping laws that legalized what the administration was doing illegally prior to the law, to show that they too are tough on terror, then letting us all know how appalled they are about the shape of our democracy, the trouncing of the constitution, the loss of privacy, civil rights, habeas corpus, and on and on and on.  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And as the microphone moves on they are still talking but we just can’t hear them anymore.  Sort of like parents with children.  While the children run around the house screaming at the tops of their lungs, the parents are relaxing with coffee and a newspaper.  The parents simply don’t hear them anymore.  That is how it has become with the Democratic Party.  I was asked this question once and I’ll never forget it:  “If there were a sound that never changed frequency, pitch or volume, what would it sound like?”  The answer is silence.  Without some contrast, there is nothing to hear.  Silence is what we are really hearing from the Democratic Party.  Talk without action is just talk. Impeachment would be heard.  Enforcing subpoenas would be heard.  Defunding the war would be heard.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; So, anyway, back to the battle.  The battle is truly on and if I were to make a prediction, I’m not psychic mind you, so I could be wrong, but if I were to make a prediction, I’d say that it goes down something like this:&lt;br /&gt;Bush will continue his blurring of reality by using 9/11/07 to discuss our progress in Iraq and how we are making great strides….Iraq…9/11 …Iraq…9/11...Iraq…9/11…&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Democrats will cry foul concerning The Petraeus Report because he didn’t write it, the Bush Administration did.  Someone will start referring to it as “The Betray Us Report”.  The Bush Administration will say they simply prepared the report from the information gathered from Petraeus.   The Democrats will ask, “How can you use a report you wrote for your justification of continued presence in Iraq?”  The Administration will respond, “The Democrats want to politicize this.  They are weak on terror and cannot be trusted with the security of our nation!”  The Democrats will say, “huh uh. …are not.”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Then the Democrats will throw in the towel with their final word: “Well we’ll just see what the American people think about this come November, 2008.”    &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Meanwhile, the Administration then finishes interpreting what they meant by their own report and “The Decider” will determine the best thing to do will be to “stay the course”.  But of course he’ll change the language so as to not let Al-Qaeda onto the plan.   The Democrats will continue their protests, their threats, their screams, their kicking and their hollering while they cast their votes to give Bush every penny of the additional money he’s asking for.  Thereby, making sure we know that they are against this war, and that they are the real supporters of our troops.&lt;div class=&quot;blogger-post-footer&quot;&gt;http://www.berkeleypc.blogspot.com&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8544577936408139207/posts/default/7871292896128074370'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8544577936408139207/posts/default/7871292896128074370'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://berkeleypc.blogspot.com/2007/09/epic-battle-is-upon-us.html' title='An Epic Battle is Upon Us'/><author><name>Debbie Downer</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03395706902479269240</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8544577936408139207.post-861382890518630570</id><published>2007-09-03T16:02:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2007-09-05T09:29:18.833-07:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Politics"/><title type='text'>By and for the people</title><content type='html'>Oh my.  Iran next?  I hope it&#39;s not true but that is what is now circulating throughout the blogosphere.  (Because of that I thought it was important to post it here.  I mean I&#39;d hate to have the only blog that didn&#39;t report this possible fact. Of course I&#39;ll leave it open as a possibility, but at least it will be on my blog and I can say, you heard it here on BerkeleyPC.)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://icga.blogspot.com/2007/08/post-labor-day-product-rollout-war-with.html&quot;&gt;http://icga.blogspot.com/2007/08/post-labor-day-product-rollout-war-with.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I&#39;m afraid we&#39;re doomed at this point.  Our government, a government by and for the people, is now a grand experiment that has failed.  Soon we&#39;ll be locking up people without trial, our congressional leadership will be a bunch of puppets, and the judicial system will only serve to protect the administration.  Oh, yeah, I forgot, that’s already happening.  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Well then I guess we should look at how we let this happen.  Why, would a government by and for the people become what our government has today.  Since our constitution is about making sure this doesn&#39;t happen, then how can it be so?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Let me tell you about my weekend.  I think this could shed some light on the subject.&lt;br /&gt;I was with a group of 12 friends and the conversation turned to politics.  The discussion was a heated one which I felt was better than no discussion at all &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I sat quietly for most of the discussion in the beginning, but I did have to impart some facts here and there.  My favorites, and the ones I repeated the most, were that Iraq did not attack us, Afghanistan is a country not a terrorist organization, and that several members of the Bush administration were also members of PNAC, an organization that has been planning on invading Iraq, or a small middle eastern country, since 1992.  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This would throw a monkey wrench into some peoples thinking for about 3 seconds and then they&#39;d be right back on point like I hadn&#39;t even spoken.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So after being ignored a few more times I decided it was time to impart some additional facts.  Most of the discussion seemed to be opinion based so I thought facts might shake up the discussion some.  Since the conversation kept coming back to being attacked on 9/11, I thought that would be a good place to start, and because that’s the area I have the most facts about. So I asked them what they thought caused the buildings to fall.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This got their attention so I suggested that it was not the planes that caused them to fall.  A once heated discussion all of a sudden had become a lot lighter and I was nearly laughed out of the room.  Everyone there, except ‘partner’ who has taken time along with me to view some of the evidence against the Bush Admin&#39;s 9/11 propaganda, turned their attention to me and basically called me a conspiracy nut.&lt;br /&gt;So after the laughter died down and they realized I wasn’t joking, that I was indeed serious I started asking them some additional questions.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I asked them:  How do you suppose the 3rd building fell that day if it wasn&#39;t hit by a plane?&lt;br /&gt;No one had heard that WTC7 had fallen also.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Did you know that no buildings in history have ever fallen due to fire?  &lt;br /&gt;No one knew that.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Did you know that the towers fell in 10 seconds, and WTC7 fell in 6.8 seconds, which is free-fall speed?&lt;br /&gt;Didn&#39;t know that either.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Did you know that eyewitness, including building maintenance, firefighters, policemen and others, all reported hearing bombs going off and some saw flashes around the bottom of the building prior to the buildings falling?&lt;br /&gt;Nope.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Did you know that the towers had lost money every year since they were first built due to occupancy issues?  Did you know that the buildings had a 2 billion dollar asbestos problem and had been condemned? Did you know that there had been several applications for a permit to tear the towers down that were refused?&lt;br /&gt;No one knew any of that either.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Did you know that Larry Silverstein, a successful real estate investor, bought the buildings in July of 01, 3 months before they were destroyed?  Do you think buying buildings with a 2 billion dollar asbestos problem would be a wise decision knowing that that 2 billion dollars would do nothing to stem the occupancy problem?  Would a smart man do this?  Do you think Larry Silverstein, a successful real estate investor is a stupid man?  Did you know he insured the buildings against terrorist attacks and made 7 billion dollars off the insurance settlement?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;At some point some different questions started popping up.  Most of the questions were around trying to figure out how they could have pulled something of that scale off. It would require a lot of careful planning and covert operations and people were in the buildings and would have noticed, etc. I stayed out of that trap. At this point how it was done is a lot less important than the fact that it was done and that what we were told happened is not what happened.  In other words, it doesn&#39;t make sense to move to how something happened, until everyone agrees that it happened.  Make sense?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I mean I could have told them that that they did have a power down for Labor Day weekend which also resulted in no video security for the weekend.  I could have told them that several companies were moved around the building prior to this occurring.  I could have told them that the bomb sniffing dogs got an extended vacation prior to the attack.  But to me those are still the rumors around the how it was done and would require a lot of fact finding that we would get if we had a real investigation. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I&#39;m amazed though, at how quick they were to dismiss me, laugh me out of the building if you will and call me a conspiracy nut, when they had no information at all.  All they know is what the Bush Administration allowed to be told.  Exactly what the Bushie’s wanted them to believe is what they believed.   Even though no one is disputing the lies, manipulations and utter bs we have heard from this group since they were put into power, they were more willing to believe their story(fool me again), than to listen to someone they know, who has no vested interest in what story they believe.&lt;br /&gt;  &lt;br /&gt;So who&#39;s fault will it be when we become a police state, lose our civil liberties and get locked up for criticizing our leaders?  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It&#39;s mine. It&#39;s yours.  It&#39;s the media&#39;s.  It the fault of those who know who show an unwillingness or lack of courage to speak truth to power.  And it&#39;s our fault for not having the decency to allow those who do have the courage to speak, the time to make their case.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This democracy belongs to us.  If we choose to allow it to slip away, fine, but we should at first educate ourselves so we can see what is happening and we should educate ourselves to see what we are giving up when it does occur.  Then once we have that knowledge, if we are still ok with it, we can sit back quietly with a nice vodka martini with stuffed olives and watch our freedoms slip away as if we were watching the setting sun.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;First They Came for the Jews&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Pastor Martin Niemöller&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;em&gt;First they came for the Jews&lt;br /&gt;and I did not speak out&lt;br /&gt;because I was not a Jew.&lt;br /&gt;Then they came for the Communists&lt;br /&gt;and I did not speak out&lt;br /&gt;because I was not a Communist.&lt;br /&gt;Then they came for the trade unionists&lt;br /&gt;and I did not speak out&lt;br /&gt;because I was not a trade unionist.&lt;br /&gt;Then they came for me&lt;br /&gt;and there was no one left&lt;br /&gt;to speak out for me.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;blogger-post-footer&quot;&gt;http://www.berkeleypc.blogspot.com&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8544577936408139207/posts/default/861382890518630570'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8544577936408139207/posts/default/861382890518630570'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://berkeleypc.blogspot.com/2007/09/by-and-for-people.html' title='By and for the people'/><author><name>Debbie Downer</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03395706902479269240</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8544577936408139207.post-1794203420108653400</id><published>2007-08-29T22:10:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-08-31T00:33:34.264-07:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="9/11"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Politics"/><title type='text'>My Hero.  I hate it when I&#39;m wrong, but in this case, Hooray!</title><content type='html'>I was totally wrong about the WTC collapses.  I now know that because the WTC7 collapse has been explained without a shadow of a doubt.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I thought there was a lot of evidence that it was a controlled demolition, but after this evidence, I am so embarassed.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Manuel Garcia from Lawrence Livermore Labs has presented us with this thoroughly researched, no stone unturned analysis that proves without a shadow of a doubt that this was not a controlled demolition.  When I heard he was from LLL, I got excited because this is where they invented Thermite. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Once I heard he was handling this I knew he must know the real story and be able to explain the Thermite compounds found at the scene.  But, alas, all I found out is how wrong I was about the whole thing, as here is the information that Garcia so willingly and without hesitation (if you don&#39;t count 6 years that is) has provided for us.  His longstanding service for our government should be rewarded when considering his excellent work here.  You go Manuel!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This is concerning how building 7 fell.  The 3rd building to fall that day that was not hit by a plane or much of anything, really.  His theory is that building 7 also fell due to fire and he&#39;s explaining how the fire got hot enough to bring the building down:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;* None of this intelligently migrating fuel oil found its way to the containment vessel that was designed for such an event, and therefore never triggered the safety mechanism that would automatically de-energize the pumps. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;* The authorities that decided not to fight the fires in WTC 7 also decided not to cut the power to these pumps, allowing them to spray oil within this burning skyscraper, for up to seven hours, in the middle of Manhattan. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;* The pooled fuel oil was somehow heated to a sufficient temperature for ignition, at which point an unknown ignition source initiated an efficient, multi-hour burn. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;* Although now situated in an enclosed room with limited space, the oil found limitless Oxygen in order to extract every bit of energy from the assumed maximum amount of 12,000 gallons. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;* The fires generated by this burning fuel oil centered in a highly specific formation directly beneath that critical truss, and the heat produced was perfectly contained and directed at the truss itself but nowhere else. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;* This truss-specific fire raged for up to seven hours but was never visible from any external view. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;* This miraculous fire then caused the failure of that one critical truss, which somehow initiated the total collapse of this 47 story building in just 6.6 seconds. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So thank god that is solved.  Now we can all relax and enjoy our 3 day weekend.  (I&#39;d still avoid San Francisco and Portland if I were you though.)&lt;div class=&quot;blogger-post-footer&quot;&gt;http://www.berkeleypc.blogspot.com&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8544577936408139207/posts/default/1794203420108653400'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8544577936408139207/posts/default/1794203420108653400'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://berkeleypc.blogspot.com/2007/08/my-hero-i-hate-it-when-im-wrong-but-in.html' title='My Hero.  I hate it when I&#39;m wrong, but in this case, Hooray!'/><author><name>Debbie Downer</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03395706902479269240</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8544577936408139207.post-751687637810885584</id><published>2007-08-29T21:15:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-08-31T00:33:34.264-07:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Politics"/><title type='text'>the power of the blog</title><content type='html'>It is simply amazing the power we have with our blogs.  With Berkeleypc I posted some messages to have Gonzo removed from his position by impeachment only to find when I woke up on Monday, that he had resigned.  The pressure from my blog was surely too much for him to bear I&#39;m sure.  It was amazing how fast it happened too.  I posted my message on Sunday and on Monday morning he was gone.  Let&#39;s all blog for liberty and justice, hooray!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Now we just need to get rid of Dr. Evil and, oh damnit... now I have to redo the Axis of Evil pics.  Well I&#39;m going to wait until Bozo makes his new selection.  His new defender of all things criminal and unconstitutional that are ok if done by Bozo&#39;s friends and contributors.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Anyway, there is good news for now.  I&#39;m sure it&#39;s only a matter of time though until the nukes hit San Francisco and we&#39;re all put into camps and our blogging tools are taken away from us.  But for now, let&#39;s party!&lt;div class=&quot;blogger-post-footer&quot;&gt;http://www.berkeleypc.blogspot.com&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8544577936408139207/posts/default/751687637810885584'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8544577936408139207/posts/default/751687637810885584'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://berkeleypc.blogspot.com/2007/08/power-of-blog.html' title='the power of the blog'/><author><name>Debbie Downer</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03395706902479269240</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8544577936408139207.post-8141001642772172062</id><published>2007-08-29T18:49:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-08-29T21:06:01.127-07:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="9/11"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Politics"/><title type='text'>What&#39;s all this hullabaloo about Martial Law?</title><content type='html'>It seems everywhere I look these days I&#39;m reading something about a new terrorist attack in the works, I&#39;m hearing about nukes, and I&#39;m hearing about Martial Law.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It seems that our government is ready for an attack this time though.  They&#39;ve been training clergy across the country to convince US citizens to give up their guns and to go peacefully to &#39;the shelter&#39;.  Sound sort of familiar?  Almost Nazi Germany like?   &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So, Dr Evil (Dick Cheney) and M Jerkoff (Michael Chertoff), both tell us there is an imminent threat come in late summer or fall.  They then tell us it might even be with nukes. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In Portland they&#39;re having readiness drills in case Cheney decides to attack the lesbian power center to free his daughter from the evil grip of lesbianism, and now we hear that the clergy across the country are getting ready to tell us to &#39;give up our guns and go to the shelter.&#39; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Can you feel it?  The air is thick with impending doom.  American&#39;s are against Bozo and Dr. Evil and all they stand for.  (OBTW, I think Chertoff will probably be the new Gonzo and therefore re-round out the Axis of Evil).  So, Bozo&#39;s not happy with his approval rating so he needs another false flag to wave.  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I&#39;m feeling it.  He&#39;s ready to explode.  So to help him out Dr. Evil will blow up some more American&#39;s and then Bozo can feel powerful again.  He was so happy during their last smoke and mirrors incident.  At that time it seemed everyone was supporting his plan to invade Iraq to get back at the Saudi terrorists who had attacked us and who&#39;s leader was hiding in Afghanistan.  It was truly a brilliant move.  Totally thinking outside of the box.  The reason of course was all Dr Evil&#39;s doing.  To paraphrase: We&#39;re invading Iraq because there no good targets in Afghanistan.  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And then of course they want to bomb Iran so bad.  You can just hear that drumbeat building too. Every day now there is something new about Iran and how we need to act. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So it&#39;s coming.  Another attack on our soil so they can once again scare Americans and wave their false flag, then bomb Iran.  With that they can raise their ratings, help the republicans in the next election and hopefully get further with their neo-con agenda.  And of course if that doesn&#39;t work, as a last resort, Martial Law.... Lock up people that are against their plans, take their money and their property and rule the world.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A bunch of hogwash huh!  That&#39;s what I thought until I realized the 3 WTC buildings were brought down by a controlled demolition and saw how hard they worked, and seemingly succeeded by the way, to make sure we believed it was due to the planes hitting 2 of the buildings.  Take some time to review that.  Watch 9/11 Mysteries and then see if you believe planes brought down those buildings.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Here&#39;s some links for your reading pleasure.  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/may2006/240506femaplan.htm&quot; target=&quot;blank_&quot;&gt;http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/may2006/240506femaplan.htm&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://911truth.org/article.php?story=20070829105930207&quot; target=&quot;blank_&quot;&gt;http://911truth.org/article.php?story=20070829105930207&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.buzzflash.com/hartmann/05/08/har05008.html&quot;&gt;http://www.buzzflash.com/hartmann/05/08/har05008.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Here&#39;s a snippet in case you&#39;d rather not click:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;By now, you have probably heard that the government has been training ministers to convince their congregations to submit to government authority in the event of a martial law crackdown, based upon Romans 13 (see also this).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Fundamentalist Christians argue that Romans 13 states that Christians must submit to government authority, since the government is divinely empowered and sustained. This is actually the argument which Adolph Hitler used in order to convince the German churches to follow him and his policies.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;However, Romans 13 does not teach subservience. Rather, as explained by a Baptist minister, Romans 13 actually says something very different:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&quot;Paul … said, ‘Wherefore ye must needs be subject, not only for wrath, but also for conscience sake.’ Meaning, our obedience to civil authority is more than just ‘because they said so.’ It is also a matter of conscience. This means we must think and reason for ourselves regarding the justness and rightness of our government&#39;s laws. Obedience is not automatic or robotic. It is a result of both rational deliberation and moral approbation.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Therefore, there are times when civil authority may need to be resisted. Either governmental abuse of power or the violation of conscience (or both) could precipitate civil disobedience.&quot;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;blogger-post-footer&quot;&gt;http://www.berkeleypc.blogspot.com&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8544577936408139207/posts/default/8141001642772172062'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8544577936408139207/posts/default/8141001642772172062'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://berkeleypc.blogspot.com/2007/08/whats-all-this-hullabaloo-about-martial.html' title='What&#39;s all this hullabaloo about Martial Law?'/><author><name>Debbie Downer</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03395706902479269240</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8544577936408139207.post-8519129367035900671</id><published>2007-08-29T07:48:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-08-29T21:06:01.128-07:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="9/11"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Politics"/><title type='text'>Impeach Dr. Evil!!!</title><content type='html'>I hope these people are wrong, but I&#39;d still like to see Cheney (Dr. Evil) impeached. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You&#39;ve seen the articles about Dr. Evil planning on nuking America so he can scare us all into continuing his plan to take over the world starting with all the best oil spots. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Well it&#39;s seems that what I&#39;ve been saying with tongue in cheek, some famous people believe strongly enough to send this message to Americans. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.911truth.org/article.php?story=20070827225629444 &quot; target=&quot;blank_&quot;&gt;http://www.911truth.org/article.php?story=20070827225629444 &lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So, let&#39;s impeach Dr Evil now. Even if he&#39;s not planning anything, it will still be fun to hear him do that penguin quack thing he does while testifying. Yes, I&#39;m seeing myself on the couch with a huge bowl of popcorn with butter and feeling like life is good again and believing there truly is a god, or God, or Allah, or Universal power. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I&#39;m selling impeach Dr. Evil buttons and bumper stickers for $25.00 each.&lt;div class=&quot;blogger-post-footer&quot;&gt;http://www.berkeleypc.blogspot.com&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8544577936408139207/posts/default/8519129367035900671'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8544577936408139207/posts/default/8519129367035900671'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://berkeleypc.blogspot.com/2007/08/impeach-dr-evil.html' title='Impeach Dr. Evil!!!'/><author><name>Debbie Downer</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03395706902479269240</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8544577936408139207.post-1188576487674784119</id><published>2007-08-26T20:57:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-08-27T21:01:28.786-07:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="9/11"/><title type='text'>Another tidbit</title><content type='html'>I happened across another little tidbit.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;According to architect Richard Gage who has spent a good deal of time investigating the collapse of the 3 WTC buildings, demolition plans for the twin towers had been submitted to the port authority several times and had been denied.  This of course before Silverstein agreed to buy.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So add that to:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1) The buildings were losing money&lt;br /&gt;2) They had an asbestos problem that required billions to undo&lt;br /&gt;3) Occupancy was low because of slits for windows and low ceilings&lt;br /&gt;4) NY City was subsidizing the buildings&lt;br /&gt;and...&lt;br /&gt;5) The previous owners had tried to get permission to bring the buildings down.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So then..&lt;br /&gt;In steps Silverstein, a man who has made his money by making &lt;strong&gt;&lt;FONT SIZE=4&gt;smart&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; real estate deals.&lt;br /&gt;He:&lt;br /&gt;1) Buys the buildings 3 months before they fall&lt;br /&gt;2) Insures the buildings against a terrorist attack&lt;br /&gt;3) Includes an odd clause that states if a terrorist attack occurs that renders the building(s) uninhabitable, they are no longer responsible for the lease payments.&lt;br /&gt;4) Is caught on tape using demolition terminology for bringing down WTC7.&lt;br /&gt;5) Ends up making 7 billion dollars on the tragedy in just a few months.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Add to that:&lt;br /&gt;1) Firefighters, Policemen, and others were told that the WTC7 building was going to be brought down prior to the occurance.&lt;br /&gt;2) The way that all 3 buildings fell is consistant with controlled demolition.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So if you&#39;re unwilling, or not interested in looking any further after that information, then I hope I didn&#39;t wake you.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As the Chinese say:  &quot;You cannot wake up a man who is pretending to be asleep!&quot;&lt;div class=&quot;blogger-post-footer&quot;&gt;http://www.berkeleypc.blogspot.com&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8544577936408139207/posts/default/1188576487674784119'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8544577936408139207/posts/default/1188576487674784119'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://berkeleypc.blogspot.com/2007/08/another-tidbit.html' title='Another tidbit'/><author><name>Debbie Downer</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03395706902479269240</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8544577936408139207.post-945657348276914005</id><published>2007-08-26T20:47:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2007-08-27T21:01:28.786-07:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="9/11"/><title type='text'>I get it now</title><content type='html'>I&#39;ve been banging my head against something that I&#39;ve finally found the answer to.  I found it in this Chinese saying:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&quot;You cannot wake up a man who is pretending to sleep!&quot;  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;That was an ah-hah! for me.  Now I realize that people I&#39;ve spoken to about the BS the admin put out about how the WTC buildings fell, were afraid to confront the truth.  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So I just wonder how much rest you get from pretend sleep.  I&#39;ll have to ponder that one for awhile.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But for now I&#39;ve added a new image to the site that shows a WTC column that was clearly cut and this had to have been cut with Thermite according to the experts.  In my mind it would be difficult, to say the least, for the hijackers to handle this part of the plan while they were burning to death in the upper floors.  But of course, I&#39;m sure there is some logical explanation for how all the columns were cut at ground level from a jet crashing into the building 80 to 100 floors above.  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Please post any scientific explanations in comments for our review.  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Thanks!  Good night!&lt;div class=&quot;blogger-post-footer&quot;&gt;http://www.berkeleypc.blogspot.com&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8544577936408139207/posts/default/945657348276914005'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8544577936408139207/posts/default/945657348276914005'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://berkeleypc.blogspot.com/2007/08/i-get-it-now.html' title='I get it now'/><author><name>Debbie Downer</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03395706902479269240</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8544577936408139207.post-2720323280081555392</id><published>2007-08-25T17:33:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2007-08-26T21:22:32.885-07:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Politics"/><title type='text'>Orange on Fridays Means Impeach the Axis of Evil</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQx7mE61oqPpY795JNbSTVc5e4b66qClAH5CtcE-eXxpfMdgzhEbP7-EAlyuRZNHxTYWm2WG-RzBlIz1E74nuR2qtcleOV1ul_6WG6tZt0iA0qmO1wGGwWJNjcponBRwPaO_0FmZe_dHdw/s1600-h/gonzo-bozo-drevil.jpg&quot; target=&quot;blank_&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQx7mE61oqPpY795JNbSTVc5e4b66qClAH5CtcE-eXxpfMdgzhEbP7-EAlyuRZNHxTYWm2WG-RzBlIz1E74nuR2qtcleOV1ul_6WG6tZt0iA0qmO1wGGwWJNjcponBRwPaO_0FmZe_dHdw/s200/gonzo-bozo-drevil.jpg&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; alt=&quot;&quot;id=&quot;BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5102805811938377970&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;That&#39;s Gonzo, Bozo and Dr. Evil!  So wear orange on every Friday from now on until the end of the planet that Dr. Evil is working on.&lt;div class=&quot;blogger-post-footer&quot;&gt;http://www.berkeleypc.blogspot.com&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8544577936408139207/posts/default/2720323280081555392'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8544577936408139207/posts/default/2720323280081555392'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://berkeleypc.blogspot.com/2007/08/orange-on-fridays-means-impeach-axis-of.html' title='Orange on Fridays Means Impeach the Axis of Evil'/><author><name>Debbie Downer</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03395706902479269240</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQx7mE61oqPpY795JNbSTVc5e4b66qClAH5CtcE-eXxpfMdgzhEbP7-EAlyuRZNHxTYWm2WG-RzBlIz1E74nuR2qtcleOV1ul_6WG6tZt0iA0qmO1wGGwWJNjcponBRwPaO_0FmZe_dHdw/s72-c/gonzo-bozo-drevil.jpg" height="72" width="72"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8544577936408139207.post-6690809703991167938</id><published>2007-08-25T15:49:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-08-26T01:05:02.993-07:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Politics"/><title type='text'>Stumping for Bush!</title><content type='html'>Freedoms Watch has some commercials for you.  The premise is &quot;I gave up my arms and legs so let&#39;s make sure we stay in Iraq so more Americans can lose their arms and legs so I can have some company.  Maybe a hot blonde with a stump below her knee that I can spend the rest of my life with.&quot;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And of course they include the line &quot;They attacked us!&quot;  I don&#39;t remember Iraq attacking us do you?  Can we sue for spreading BS?  Please someone ask a lawyer and let me know.  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Here&#39;s the video:  &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TNTWYnPi8yc&quot;&gt;&quot;Stump&quot;ing for Bush waving a False Flag&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;blogger-post-footer&quot;&gt;http://www.berkeleypc.blogspot.com&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8544577936408139207/posts/default/6690809703991167938'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8544577936408139207/posts/default/6690809703991167938'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://berkeleypc.blogspot.com/2007/08/missing-limbs-for-bush.html' title='Stumping for Bush!'/><author><name>Debbie Downer</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03395706902479269240</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8544577936408139207.post-1156670746365637408</id><published>2007-08-25T11:26:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-08-25T11:57:29.374-07:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Politics"/><title type='text'>bush is horrible and dems are worse</title><content type='html'>This just in.  Actually, it&#39;s been in for a few days, I&#39;m just catching up on posting it.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The only person that American&#39;s hate more than George W. Bush is the Democrats.  I know the Democrats are more than one person, but how would you say it?  Sue me ok.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Currently, 32% of American&#39;s approve of the job Bush is doing.  In other words, 32% of the country can be defined by the term neocon meaning (new con job) and these people believe we can force democracy on countries that have oil and then take the oil to continue the lives that OUR GOD has ordained for us.  So the oxymoron for the day:  &quot;forced democracy&quot;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And if these countries just take on democracy and accept Jesus Christ as their personal saviour then they too can lead the life of luxury that GOD has given to 32% of Americans.  And if they choose to deny Jesus Christ, and continue to worship Allah, then they will live their lives in unrelenting war and poverty.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So you see neocons are unwavering in their support.  Regardless of the sins, crimes against humanity and trouncing of the constitution performed by GW, they will still support him due to their &#39;end justifies the means&#39; mentality.  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So then, we have the rest of the country.  The 68% of the country that are not brainless automatons, reading and promoting their daily scripts (read talking points), but people who are able to exercise their free thinking and free will and come out against the party who&#39;s core principles most closely reflect their own.  It is truly this ability to stand up to those they are most supportive of in the long run, that makes this 18% approval rating most interesting.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Harry Reid came out and said the reason congress has such a low approval rating is because Bush has a low approval rating.  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://radioequalizer.blogspot.com/2007/08/senate-majority-leader-harry-reid-d-nv.html&quot; target=&quot;blank_&quot;&gt;Harry Reid: Our approval is down because of Bush&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So that is the scary part.  They still don&#39;t get it.  We put them in power to hold this administration accountable for their crimes, for trouncing the constitution and to end the war.  All we get from them is a charade of tough talk that they refuse to back up with tough action.  I&#39;m disgusted as we all should be.  Tell Nancy and Harry, and the rest of the dem&#39;s too whimpy to take a REAL stand, to &#39;..get off the pot!&#39;&lt;div class=&quot;blogger-post-footer&quot;&gt;http://www.berkeleypc.blogspot.com&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8544577936408139207/posts/default/1156670746365637408'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8544577936408139207/posts/default/1156670746365637408'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://berkeleypc.blogspot.com/2007/08/bush-is-horrible-and-dems-are-worse.html' title='bush is horrible and dems are worse'/><author><name>Debbie Downer</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03395706902479269240</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8544577936408139207.post-7844163082789119217</id><published>2007-08-23T22:11:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2007-08-25T10:25:52.298-07:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Politics"/><title type='text'>GW 2008 bumperstickers</title><content type='html'>If you click it with your mouse, it get&#39;s bigger!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjABb1a1pBhEepJgNkeqzPWkceqjSDxGgGj9VOpbw7hScbvnqRW53nI1-44hJlJRvsWu8Ccl2D1ViwNvQDSENUgT_rVbTiy01UvfiRCBlvVQbL2-Dor3ho-caw2OU5DWz22BiFuRYWEh8QA/s1600-h/gwb+2008.jpg&quot; target=&quot;blank_&quot;&gt;&lt;img  src=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjABb1a1pBhEepJgNkeqzPWkceqjSDxGgGj9VOpbw7hScbvnqRW53nI1-44hJlJRvsWu8Ccl2D1ViwNvQDSENUgT_rVbTiy01UvfiRCBlvVQbL2-Dor3ho-caw2OU5DWz22BiFuRYWEh8QA/s200/gwb+2008.jpg&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; alt=&quot;&quot;id=&quot;BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5102684101155143826&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Hello, I&#39;m selling these George Bush 2008 bumper stickers so we can just get it all over with.  Hell, with the economy going to shit now anyway, I don&#39;t know why anyone would even want to stick around working for peanuts, only to go to sleep and do it again tomorrow.  Miserable existance.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So if we all just vote for the inevitable, I mean you know he&#39;s probably going to find some way to stay in power anyway and you know the democrats will just say... &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#39;Can he do that?  Just declare he&#39;s taking 4 more years?  It&#39;s an outrage!  It&#39;s unconstitutional!  Well, we&#39;ll just see how the American People are going to stand for this is 2012! The republican party is going to look real bad if this keeps up! This will definitely let America know who&#39;s got their backside.  Look for a democratic sweep in 2012!&#39;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And of course there will be no 2012, so hey, get on the right side now.  Purchase my new bumper sticker for $25.00 and join the growing chorus of people saying: &#39;Please, stop this planet.  I want off!&#39;&lt;div class=&quot;blogger-post-footer&quot;&gt;http://www.berkeleypc.blogspot.com&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8544577936408139207/posts/default/7844163082789119217'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8544577936408139207/posts/default/7844163082789119217'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://berkeleypc.blogspot.com/2007/08/gw-2008-bumperstickers.html' title='GW 2008 bumperstickers'/><author><name>Debbie Downer</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03395706902479269240</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjABb1a1pBhEepJgNkeqzPWkceqjSDxGgGj9VOpbw7hScbvnqRW53nI1-44hJlJRvsWu8Ccl2D1ViwNvQDSENUgT_rVbTiy01UvfiRCBlvVQbL2-Dor3ho-caw2OU5DWz22BiFuRYWEh8QA/s72-c/gwb+2008.jpg" height="72" width="72"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8544577936408139207.post-5938179248698503633</id><published>2007-08-23T19:49:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-08-25T10:25:41.276-07:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="life in berkeley"/><title type='text'>There&#39;s a hole in the universe, oh my!</title><content type='html'>I sure hope we don&#39;t fall in.  Sure enough, this hole will swallow the Earth and then some. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Well you can read all about it at this link:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.huffingtonpost.com/huff-wires/20070823/universe-hole/&quot; target=&quot;blank_&quot;&gt;A Huge Black Hole!&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I have to say I am sick to death of people thinking I&#39;m a conspiracy nut.  Why do they think that?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Because I, just like 45% of Americans and over 50% of New Yorkers (they were there remember?), don&#39;t believe that the &#39;conspiracy theory&#39; the Bush Administration fed us is true.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Here&#39;s why:&lt;br /&gt;1) Steel buildings don&#39;t collapse due to fire.  Never have.&lt;br /&gt;2) Buildings directly beneath the twin towers were massacred but stayed standing.&lt;br /&gt;3) WTC 7 was not massacred, it was barely scraped, and yet it fell. (SEC records destroyed)&lt;br /&gt;4) All 3 buildings fell straight down. Doesn&#39;t that seem a little odd?&lt;br /&gt;5) All 3 buildings fell at the speed of gravity. The admin claimed a pancake collapse. I don&#39;t know about you but for me somethings not right there.&lt;br /&gt;6) Firefighters on the scene described many explosions from the basement level, some before, some after the planes hit.&lt;br /&gt;7) Media personnel, CNN, Fox, etc, reported hearing explosions from the lower level.&lt;br /&gt;8) Firefighters say it looked like a controlled demolition to them.&lt;br /&gt;9) Many first responders have been trying to be heard to describe what they saw and heard and are not being picked up by our media. These first responders do not believe the buildings were brought down by planes.&lt;br /&gt;10)First responders, and Guilliani, were told that WT7 was coming down so everyone needed to be out of it. This also was accompanied by Silverstein saying they should &#39;pull&#39; building 7 because enough people had lost their lives.  &#39;Pull&#39; is a term used by demolition crews when imploding buildings. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;All of this stuff is verifiable and is information I have researched to see if anyone had disproven any of it.  So far there are some that have tried to debunk these claims but the &#39;debunkers&#39; claims never stand up under review.  I&#39;ve read both sides, have you?  Have you even listened to any claim beyond what you hear on tv news? &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So, sorry to say, but to me the real fools are the people that aren&#39;t willing to pull back the curtain to see who is pulling the levers, and all I can say is, enjoy your nice little world where you are safe from Al Quaeda because &#39;...we&#39;re fighting them over there so we won&#39;t have to fight them here...&#39;.  And, Iraq attacked us on 9/11 using Osama Bin Laden and Al Quaeda.  Of course Osama and Sadam were mortal enemies around that time, but apparently they had a spot of tea and decided they should attack America together.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;That&#39;s how Iraq attacked us, so that&#39;s why we had to start a war in Iraq.  Also, because Sadam was building some WMD&#39;s to attack us again, and we should start a preemptive war to be sure he couldn&#39;t do that.    &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Next, I suppose we should start locking people up because we think they might someday want to use their guns to kill people. As long as we have our government to protect us from these people, we&#39;ll be safe.  Hooray!  And then of course I might say &quot;Yeah, but who&#39;s going to protect us from our government?&quot;  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And then you say: &quot;Our government is just and good.  Our government has GOD on its side.  WE are &lt;em&gt;the&lt;/em&gt; CHRISTIAN nation.  Our GOD can beat their god(s) with one GOD appendage tied behind its spiritual mass! With GOD on our side we will always make right decisions, because GOD actually makes the decisions for us.  GOD wants us to kill the non-believers, the haters of America.  By killing the believers in god(s), GOD knows that we are good.  So, on with killing the GODless.  George Bush is GOD&#39;s disciple, he can do no wrong. GOD, is pulling the strings!&quot;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Here&#39;s a link in case you actually want to expand your vision beyond what the media is willing to give you.  And by the way, I thought this was all hogwash too, until I saw this movie:  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.911weknow.com/911-mysteries-movie.html&quot; target=&quot;blank_&quot;&gt;http://www.911weknow.com/911-mysteries-movie.html&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So, watch the movie and we&#39;ll talk.  If you don&#39;t watch the movie and then still think it&#39;s ok to call me a &#39;conspiracy nut&#39;, then don&#39;t be surprised when my response is: &#39;Fuck you, you lazy, ignorant, arrogant, condescending potato brain!&#39; Because, you will deserve it!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;That&#39;s all for tonight.  Thanks for reading my post.  Please don&#39;t forget to order my &#39;George Bush, 2008&#39; bumper stickers for $25.00 a piece.&lt;div class=&quot;blogger-post-footer&quot;&gt;http://www.berkeleypc.blogspot.com&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8544577936408139207/posts/default/5938179248698503633'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8544577936408139207/posts/default/5938179248698503633'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://berkeleypc.blogspot.com/2007/08/theres-hole-in-universe-oh-my.html' title='There&#39;s a hole in the universe, oh my!'/><author><name>Debbie Downer</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03395706902479269240</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8544577936408139207.post-8638132601531144198</id><published>2007-08-22T19:04:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-08-22T19:32:20.932-07:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Politics"/><title type='text'>Like a ticking timebomb</title><content type='html'>As the clock on the wall ticks, I&#39;m wondering and waiting for Cheney to do his next strike on America.  He&#39;s supposed to use nukes this time.  He&#39;s building them in his basement.  That&#39;s why he had Google remove his house from Google maps.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So as I&#39;m perusing the internet look for some information from people that actually do investigate things, unlike your wonderful media, I came across something disturbing but hardly believable.  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Cheney is going to nuke Portland, OR.  Ok, that&#39;s not what the article said but if it happens you heard it here first.  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So any reasonable person would hear that the terrorists certainly wouldn&#39;t strike Portland, OR, mainly because they wouldn&#39;t know how to find it but then the second question becomes why?  Hatred of lesbians?  Doesn&#39;t seem logical.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But, Cheney on the other hand may have had a spat with his daughter and therefore, in his twisted little paranoid mind, decided that his daughter had become evil and it was lesbianism that turned her that way.  Therefore, by destroying the largest city in the main lesbian power source, the state of Oregon, Mary will magically wake up and be straight and hate all gays, the way it&#39;s supposed to be.  I know it seems twisted but hey, that&#39;s our Dick!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So of course even though he&#39;s paranoid and twisted he is also an evil genius of sorts.  He will most definitely find a way to use this tragedy to further his Dr. Evil agenda to take over the world, starting with all of the best oil places.  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So, some good stock plays here would be energy companies.  Oil of course should be at the top of your list.  According to Cheney, he&#39;s planning on attacking sometime this summer:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.911truth.org/article.php?story=20070724182855127&quot; target=&quot;blank_&quot;&gt;Nukes for Bush&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;According to this article, it will be before this weekend so get the money down now.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://911truth.org/article.php?story=20070821155056980&quot; target=&quot;blank_&quot;&gt;Let&#39;s Nuke Portland&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;blogger-post-footer&quot;&gt;http://www.berkeleypc.blogspot.com&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8544577936408139207/posts/default/8638132601531144198'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8544577936408139207/posts/default/8638132601531144198'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://berkeleypc.blogspot.com/2007/08/like-ticking-timebomb.html' title='Like a ticking timebomb'/><author><name>Debbie Downer</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03395706902479269240</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8544577936408139207.post-8325065901859570440</id><published>2007-08-20T22:00:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-08-25T10:24:25.011-07:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Miscellaneous"/><title type='text'>Dying to be read</title><content type='html'>As I read about the plight of young Miles Levin, the dying blogger, I was heartened to know that someday, when I come down with cancer, my blog too will be read. Oh don&#39;t worry, Anonymous, I know you&#39;re still out there somewhere. I haven&#39;t heard from you lately though.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And I&#39;m sure nobody bought Da Vinci&#39;s paintings until he was dead, so I guess my prose will probably suffer the same fate.  I&#39;ll be famous when I&#39;m dead.  Not that I really want to be famous, mind you, it would just be nice if I could get more than 1 response to my 2 surveys.  To quote myself from an earlier post:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&quot;How can I continue skipping through life when I ask for so little and get less!&quot;  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I&#39;m sure that quote will be famous long after I move on to my next life.  That one quote will be up there with the great quotes of all times.  And yes you, Anonymous, were right here when I came up with it.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Anyway, I guess I should probably go to the doctor just to be sure I don&#39;t already have cancer.  Think about it.  Miles Levin got a good 2 years of blogging notoriety after he was diagnosed.  We bloggers will miss him.  I certainly hope no bloggers try to pretend they&#39;re dying now just to get their blogs read.  That would be way over the top.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ok, I think I&#39;ll make an appointment with a doctor in my area.  I hope my medical insurance will cover whatever I may have.  Hmmmm.....I should probably research some illnesses first to be sure I answer the questions properly.  I&#39;d hate to be diagnosed with an illness that my insurance plan doesn&#39;t cover and then be out on the streets, trying to connect to my blog with my AT&amp;T, formerly Cingular, Wireless card as I blog from behind dumpsters, etc.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If anyone knows Anderson Cooper, please contact me and let me know how to get ahold of him.  I need to get everything in order in case I&#39;m really sick and need to quit doing work of any kind and have to blog night and day from my death bed.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Anyway, I&#39;ve been a little under the weather lately so (cough, hack, snort, drop of blood from nose), I should probably turn in and get some rest.  I have a big day tomorrow.&lt;div class=&quot;blogger-post-footer&quot;&gt;http://www.berkeleypc.blogspot.com&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8544577936408139207/posts/default/8325065901859570440'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8544577936408139207/posts/default/8325065901859570440'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://berkeleypc.blogspot.com/2007/08/dying-to-be-read.html' title='Dying to be read'/><author><name>Debbie Downer</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03395706902479269240</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8544577936408139207.post-6040133472941874359</id><published>2007-08-17T23:05:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-08-17T23:47:03.793-07:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Politics"/><title type='text'>The Petraeus Report</title><content type='html'>Good News.  The Petraeus report is good news for Iraq.  Everything is going swimmingly.  The surge has worked and the Iraqi&#39;s are now running their own government. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sure there is the occassional car bomb or road side bomb or missile attack killing more people than were dying 3 months ago. And the attack last week that killed over 150 people, the most since nearly a year ago.  And the report that Al-Quaida&#39;s numbers are larger than ever and growing.  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But don&#39;t worry about that.  Read the report.  It&#39;s all good.  Everything is going swimmingly!  Hooray!  So, just go about your business and realize that our government is in good hands and the Iraqi&#39;s are living peacefully again. Ignore all those nay-sayers who only want to talk about the death and destruction.  The report is good news!  Just focus on that and go buy a new dress!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Oh... I should mention that the report isn&#39;t out yet.  The reason I know it&#39;s good news is because Petraeus isn&#39;t writing it.  You see, he doesn&#39;t write very well so George decided he should help him.  And since George will need a lot of time with his MS Word Spell Check and Thesaurus, he has already started.  And of course George will be sure to accurately portray that good is triumphing over evil.  What else could happen?  Light always wins over darkness.  I am so relieved that the report will be coming from George&#39;s world and not from Iraq.  That could be depressing.  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Oh and don&#39;t worry about the good general letting anything slip that isn&#39;t the same positive news that will most surely be in the report.  George is banning him from testifying to congress.  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And then there is even more good news.  I know you can&#39;t believe the sunshine and light coming from my blog this evening, but hey it&#39;s Friday, the Stock Market nearly crashed, Countrywide is going under (I always hated them) and now, as I&#39;m about to divulge, George is consolidating the process in the White House.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You see, once George finishes writing the report, he will deliver it to Congress where they&#39;ll look at it and be amazed at how well things are going and then hand it back to George.  George will then take the same report he wrote,interpret what it means and then decide what the next steps should be.  That&#39;s his Decider role.  I think that might have been secretly Karl&#39;s job before but as anyone in the corporate world will attest, once you lose a headcount you just have to make due.  I&#39;m glad to see this administration is taking fiscal responsibility to heart.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So the news is good.   All Good News everywhere.  And when the occassional bad news slips through, don&#39;t worry, just read the revised edition a couple months later and you&#39;ll see the news wasn&#39;t bad at all, it was good.  History is so fickle!  Thank god for electronic media.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I don&#39;t know about you but I think this good news deserves a party!  Here&#39;s a link to another article on this amazing story:  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.huffingtonpost.com/cenk-uygur/the-medias-accountabilit_b_60877.html&quot; target=&quot;blank_&quot;&gt;The Petraeus (wink,wink) Report&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;blogger-post-footer&quot;&gt;http://www.berkeleypc.blogspot.com&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8544577936408139207/posts/default/6040133472941874359'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8544577936408139207/posts/default/6040133472941874359'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://berkeleypc.blogspot.com/2007/08/petraeus-report.html' title='The Petraeus Report'/><author><name>Debbie Downer</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03395706902479269240</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8544577936408139207.post-107542992735470196</id><published>2007-08-17T22:25:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-08-17T23:47:17.650-07:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Blogging Faux Paus (my cats)"/><title type='text'>Indoor Cats</title><content type='html'>Hello,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I have included the following link for all of you people who have indoor cats that you love so much that you reward them by trapping them in the house for their entire lives, never allowing them to spread their wings and become all that they can be.  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This article is in reference to their hunting skills and enhancing them by putting kibbles in those plastic wire balls that have bells in them.  As they bat the ball around, little bits of the same dried out cat food they have in their bowl falls out, and they are rewarded for their amazing hunting skills.  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Enjoy!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://pets.yahoo.com/blog/catbehavior/3897/free-your-indoor-cat-s-inner-hunter-with-treats/&quot; target=&quot;blank_&quot;&gt;Trick your cats into a happy cat life&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;blogger-post-footer&quot;&gt;http://www.berkeleypc.blogspot.com&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8544577936408139207/posts/default/107542992735470196'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8544577936408139207/posts/default/107542992735470196'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://berkeleypc.blogspot.com/2007/08/indoor-cats.html' title='Indoor Cats'/><author><name>Debbie Downer</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03395706902479269240</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8544577936408139207.post-8156041346165760038</id><published>2007-08-16T23:58:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-08-26T13:15:40.926-07:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Politics"/><title type='text'>It&#39;s finally happened</title><content type='html'>I think we might be starting the 7 years of nothing.  Now does that come before or after the 7 years of plenty?  I sure hope it comes before the years of plenty because it doesn&#39;t seem like I had plenty for the first 7 years of this century.  Hopefully, we&#39;ll do 7 years of nothing and then, if we survive it, we&#39;ll be rewarded with shiny new BMW convertibles.  The 3 Series.  They&#39;re awesome. Hooray!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Anyway, I haven&#39;t much time to write right now because I have a new language I&#39;m learning.  Canadian.  Yes you asked for it in the poll.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The good news is Canadian is very similar to English. You know sort of like Quebecian is to French.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I&#39;m trying to devise a way to provide the english and the translation in the same post so I don&#39;t get carpal tunnel syndrome. Or have humans been cured of that now? Maybe we have because I haven&#39;t heard about it for a long time. I think it may have been replaced by the far worse....&quot;Restless Leg Syndrome&quot;.  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Anyway I&#39;m about to sign off.  Or for the Canadian readers: I&#39;m aboooouuuuuutttt, to sign off.  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;good night now.&lt;div class=&quot;blogger-post-footer&quot;&gt;http://www.berkeleypc.blogspot.com&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8544577936408139207/posts/default/8156041346165760038'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8544577936408139207/posts/default/8156041346165760038'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://berkeleypc.blogspot.com/2007/08/its-finally-happened.html' title='It&#39;s finally happened'/><author><name>Debbie Downer</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03395706902479269240</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8544577936408139207.post-6311211693235105440</id><published>2007-08-13T22:15:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-08-25T10:26:03.708-07:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Politics"/><title type='text'>Bush&#39;s brain has left The White House</title><content type='html'>Well, its finally happened, Bush is now totally brainless.  You see it is being reported that Bush&#39;s brain has left the White House to be with his family.  This should make his family happy, but what happens to the country?  Where does his lame duck presidency go now?  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The rest of Bush will still be at the White House doing presidential things only with no brain.  I find this disturbing that the leader of the free world is now &#39;The Decider&#39; without a brain.  I&#39;m sure this has never happened before in the history of our country and it just seems to be more of the same old, same old from this group.  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;There are however mixed reviews from the self important people that express their opinions on these matters so they can then get famous and write books expressing more of their opinions so we can read them and learn to believe they are god and their opinions should shape ours.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Here&#39;s one such god.  He&#39;s been around for awhile. He once tried to convince everyone that the Clinton&#39;s had crack pipes on their Christmas tree at The White House. So if you hated the Clinton&#39;s you believed every word of it and you were outraged.  If you loved the Clinton&#39;s you didn&#39;t believe any of it and were outraged.  And if you were a logical thinker, you would just say he&#39;s obviously just a political hack because nobody would believe the Clinton&#39;s would be displaying their crack pipes on a Christmas tree.  Right out in the open, for everyone to see.  Even Bill Bennett who, if he were truly there and saw them could easily have taken pictures of them.  And besides, they still had another election to win. Just didn&#39;t seem logical.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Anyway, with that said, Bill Bennett is his name and here&#39;s what one reporter got from him on the incident:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&quot;Bill Bennett is downplaying the incident saying Bush without his brain is &#39;not a big blow&#39; to the administration.&quot;  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Apparently Bill thinks Bush will do just fine without a brain.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But Wayne Slater says:&lt;br /&gt;&quot;All lame ducks are lame ducks; this one, with &lt;his brain&gt; now turning out the lights, is the most lame duck we&#39;ve seen in a long time.&quot;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If you think about it though, ducks really aren&#39;t that smart anyway.  When we were kids we used to catch them with box traps with a stick just by having them follow a trail of bread crumbs until they were under the box.  Then when they were under it we&#39;d pull out the stick with the rope we had tied to it and they&#39;d be inside quacking very loudly and banging against the box.  Geeesh!  Not too bright, huh! Anyway, my point is a duck without its brain really isn&#39;t missing much, so maybe we&#39;ll be ok after all.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Oh and the poll.  I&#39;m sure you&#39;re all very excited to hear the results.  Tada!  Canadian has won with 100% of the votes so you can look forward to a Canadian Language version of this blog in the near future.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;That&#39;s all for now!&lt;div class=&quot;blogger-post-footer&quot;&gt;http://www.berkeleypc.blogspot.com&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8544577936408139207/posts/default/6311211693235105440'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8544577936408139207/posts/default/6311211693235105440'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://berkeleypc.blogspot.com/2007/08/bushs-brain-has-left-white-house.html' title='Bush&#39;s brain has left The White House'/><author><name>Debbie Downer</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03395706902479269240</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry></feed>