Joke of the day from Moby's Journal

Donald Rumsfeld is giving the president his daily briefing.
He concludes by saying: "Yesterday, 3 Brazilian soldiers were killed."
"OH NO!" the President exclaims. "That's terrible!"
His staff sits stunned at this display of emotion, nervously watching as the President sits, head in hands.
Finally, the President looks up and asks, "How many is a brazillion?"


Ian is having a bunch of guys stay the night after they all play lazer tag out in the woods this afternoon.
I'm thinking I would like to go to floriade today if it doesn't rain.

Fed up

I watched a documentary on Iraq last night, It was about all the out sourcing of what used to be normal military duties. Private company's hired as body guards, truck drivers, Caterers, and even toilet cleaners. If this war was to end and all the troops went home it would leave 1000's of private people out of work. Even Pizza Hut and Subway have people over there taking care of our troops. We all know about Blackwater, well there are other companies there doing the same service. Many of them are getting over 1000.00 a day, while the troops are getting normal pay, the 3 meals a day that the caterer prepares for over 38,000 is costing the American public 20.00 bucks a plate. I'm sure that we all can think back on the big bad Blackwater day in Falluha (however it's spelled), they didn't have enough people for a mission that should have had 3 of them per vehicle, they had 3 trucks with only 2 people, hence the driver and shotgun but no one to watch the back. We all remember seeing them shot, killed, burned, and hanged. Because of this the US military had to abandoned a plan it had in the works for some time and go in aggressive and hostel and find out who was responsible, hence opening a can of worms it shouldn't have. It's a war that is confusing (no communication in the Military and the Private sector), it's war that people are getting seriously rich from, it's a war I can't see ending as long as we have the "good ole boys" in office. Far to much money to be lost in ending the war.

Please stand up and demand the troops home.
It's a deadly circus over in Iraq, the people of Iraq have no life quality at this point. At least under Sadam however evil he was the majority of the people could live day to day and have it be at least what they knew as normal.

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Did I mention I have "7" 14 year old boys in my living room, all spending the night.
and it's pouring down rain here. I have to say they are all really good guys, I've been lucky with the friends all my sons have choose to spend time with.

on a sober note, the reason I'm not taking so many photos is because I am really starting to have problems with my sight. It's almost impossible for me to focus my camera, and it seems to have just happened over the last few months. I've been looking at different camera's to find one that I can still see to focus through the view finder, I've found one, but maybe I just need a good pair of glasses, my old ones just aren't anywhere strong enough anymore. =(