The World according to UAMIS92

So, my favorite radio host to listen to while working, Rush Limbaugh, is in "trouble" for stating that Philadelphia Eagles Quarterback Donovan McNabb is overrated and is getting preferential treatment for being Black. Rush said this on the ESPN Sunday Pre-game show. Is Rush really wrong on this? Well, in an article that asks if Rush is a racist, an SI.com column states that Donavan's stats are down in the last year or so, and gives credibility that the Eagle's defense was really, really, really good. Is McNabb an above average Quarterback? In my opinion, absoluetely. Has he played poorly recently? Absolutely. Does the media hype their favorite players, wheather they are white or black? YES!! Look at my favorite team, the Bears (stop laughing). Who is their best player? Brian Urlacher. He is one the best paid linebackers in the game. One of the best at his position for the past 3 seasons. But this year, he isn't doing as well. He is being faked out of position and blocked to the ground constantly in games (look at the games on ESPN and Monday Nite Football as examples) Is Brian still being hyped, you bet he is. Hype goes both ways. If Rush said these things about Urlacher, would people be up in arms? No. But since McNabb is Black, you can't talk about those things. Society needs to get over this sensitivity about skin color. Rush is there is stir public opinion. He did his job.

You know when you have the best vacation in a long time, and then have a problem getting back to reality? That's me, right now. I've been working the past few days in a fog, wishing I was back in Maui. I haven't had much to blog about, maybe because I am wishing I was back at the pool in Maui, or on the beach. Well, I'm working on getting out this fog. Maybe I'll start posting again tomorrow. Maybe.

Sorry I haven't blogged too much lately .... work, work, work. Now the wife and I are taking a well earned one week vacation in Maui, without the kids. This is our early 10th anniversary present to ourselves. I'll be back next Friday (9/26) nice and refreshed. Have a good week.

I still don't understand this. Why would someone want to give people who are here illegally a document that is, as a default, a United States Identification Card? What in the world is wrong with the politicians in California where they put the interests of ILLEGAL Aliens ahead of national interests for American citizens? I hope this law goes through the courts, all the way to the Supreme Court, so they can strike it down. We all know the 9th Circuit of Appeals will allow it, being the crazed liberal justices they are. Someone, please, send me an email at uamis92@aol.com to give me a logical explanation of this law, why it is really necessary. Please.

This is an excellent post on the thoughts of 9/11 and why we are ALL soldiers in this war by a 25 year old and why he believes the way he does, which I found on Right Wing News. I have the same thoughts everyday when I travel outside my home by myself, with my family, or when I travel on business. We are all soldiers in this war. We will win this war together.

Did anyone see Dick Gephardt on FNC this Sunday morning? I saw his interview and couldn't help but laugh my whole way through it. What a joke this guy is. Calling President Bush a "Miserable Failure" at every opportunity he has, but cannot offer one idea on how to solve the "problems" in Iraq, Iran, or North Korea. He claims we should have run right to the UN after the major ground and air campaigns were over to get UN and NATO help right away. He only offers criticism, but can't offer anything new to the discussion. Of course, he mentioned we should have waited until we had full UN approval before we ever invaded. We should have appeased France. We should appease France now, according to Dickey. They are our Friends, and we should work with them to find a solution Together. Of course, he doesn’t say how we should work with them or say to them, which would turn the French around into our favor. I guess if the French disagree, old Dickey wouldn't do anything. The French, in a Gephardt administration, would hold all of the cards in regard to US foreign policy. If we don't have French agreement, and the US proceeds on its own in a Gephardt administration, can we call Dickey a miserable failure?

He also chastised the Bush Administration on North Korea, saying we have undone all what the Clinton administration has "accomplished". What accomplishment? Clinton appeased the North Koreans. He signed a treaty with them to prevent them or stop them from creating Nukes. The North Koreans ignored it, which was discovered last year. Clinton's appeasement is now Bush's headache. But it's Bushes fault that he won't appease the North Koreans to make them go away. Bush solves problems now. He won't push this off on the next administration. Bush was right to call Kim IL Jung or what ever his name is a "Tyrant". He is. Call a spade a spade. Bush brought in China, South Korea, and Japan to work out this crisis, and N. Korea has pissed off all of them. The crisis will come to a head because the North Koreans are in a corner, and they won't back down, and neither will Bush. It's time to call a spade a spade. I predict we will go to war with N. Korea within two years, and it will last about 2 months. Without food and oil, the N. Korean forces will whither away. Special Forces will knock out the nuclear capabilities. The rebuilding of N. Korea will be done by S. Korea, with help from Japan and China.

Gephardt did call Arafat a "failure". I like it how Bush is a "Miserable Failure", but Arafat, the man who turned down Clinton's offer of 98% of what the Palestinians wanted, the man who calls for "martyrs" to march into Jerusalem, the man who blocks the road map to peace at very change he gets, only a "Failure".

Gephardt is a joke. Tony Snow and Brit Hume looked like they were suppressing laughter at all of his answers this morning. I can't believe Dickey has a following. I doubt for long.

This has to be one of the most tragic images of 9/11, (hat tip: Little Green Footballs) yet it capivated America, and became taboo. I always wondered, what made these people jump? How hot was it? How much smoke was there? Where items caving in on them all-around them? Where they pushed to the windows, and the windows where their only escape? These images haunt me today, yet I read this article because it most likely brings closure to one of 9/11's lasting untold story, who are the people who jumped? Why could they have done it? Would I have been brave as they were to accept my fate?

Here is my recollection of how I found out about the events of 9/11. I posted this at Little Green Footballs. Feel free to post your memories there as well. These posts will be saved by Charles as part of his permanent 9/11 tribute.

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I travel for a living, selling Enterprise Software to Fortune 500 clients, based out of Phoenix, AZ. However on 9/11, for the first time in a whille, I had people flying into Phoenix joining me for various meetings, so instead of flying out that morning to the Bay area, or Southern California, or Las Vegas, I had the luxury of sleeping in that morning, waiting for my co-workers to join me at a meeting around mid-day.

I'm not sure of the time, but I think it was after 6:15am and before the 2nd tower was hit, I got a call on my cell phone. I remember waking up the cell phone ringing thinking why is it ringing so early? Which of my co-workers is not going to make it into town, or indefinately delayed. It was my co-worker Nancy and I remember her clearly "Sean, they closed the airport! Burbank (California) is closed and I can't get out. The World Trade Center has been hit by an airplane." I remember then saying to my slowly waking wife, "Turn on CNN!!".

I will always remember the image I saw on the TV, the 1st tower smoking. Then watching as what I think was a plane .... then a fireball. The commentators were saying, what was that? Replays played over and over and over again showed the second plane hitting the 2nd tower. I remember seeing the images of the Pentagon burning. Rumors of a car bomb at the State Department. Rumors of other hijacked airplanes all over the Eastern US. One of the local Phoenix news stations told of a hijacked airplane in Cleveland. Then reports of the plane down in Pennsylvania. All airplanes where being forced to land. F-16's over New York and D.C., and over Phoenix. Seeing images of our President flying to various locations to get ahold of the situation.

I reached all my co-workers that morning via cell phone. None had been able to depart due to the closure and lockdown of the airports nationally. We were all in disbelief. I remember thinking, this is our December 7th, 1941, or this is the day we will all remember, like my parents vivid recollections of the day JFK was killed. I remember thinking, they've woken a sleeping giant, just as the Japanese admiral said after the sneak attack on Pearl Harbor. I also remember thinking, thank God George Bush is our President, one who will bring the fight back to the Terrorists who struck and destroyed the World Trade Center, struck our Pentagon, and crashed the plane in the field in Pennsylvania, and caused so much grief for families of the victims and grief in Americans.

I found out a few days later, my manager at the time, had a childhood friend on the United flight that struck the 2nd tower. My neighbor lost 3 business partners in the World Trade Center, severly hurting his business. I have cousins in Northern New Jersey, and they were obviously impacted more by 9/11, since they had friends who lost loved ones and where in the World Trade Center at the time of the attacks. I remember my oldest cousins' husband telling me that he heard the New York police and firefighters radio traffic that morning, as he is a police officer in, I think, Morristown. He happened to in training that day at a regional training academy in Northern New Jersey. He said it was very busy over the radios, police officers and firefighers giving reports and status of locations in towers, then extreme static, then complete silence.

Thank you Charles, for giving us this outlet for telling our stories so people will never, never ever forget, this chilling day in American history.

I saw this on Instapudits site. He says Air Bags where "sold" on the notion that they would replace seat belts. What? I never ever heard this mentioned this way. Everything I have read or seen on air bags says they should be used in conjunction with seat belts. Especially if you have kids in the front seat (get the kids in the back seat, or turn off the air bag if possible. I've heard too many sad stories about kids and air bags). People who think air bags are going to save thier lives without wearing seat belts, are frankly, idiots. I doubt a police offiicer has heard the excuse, "I didn't have my seat belt on because my air bag would save me". That was a wierd statement by Glenn Reynolds, in an otherwise excellent web site that I frequent multiple times a day.

Nothing pisses me off more than when parents abuse their kids. Here is a disturbing article about parents "locking up" their twin 5 year old boys because they can't keep up with them. The parents are 42 (mom) and 69 (dad) years old. What the heck is wrong with these people? Instead of throwing them in jail, throw them in a cage for the amount of time they put their kids in the cages. Let them piss and S*it on themselves, while the kids run around and ignore their pleas to be let go. Jail would be too nice for them, unless thier jail cells are as small as the cages they put their kids in, and the facilities where turned off for a few days.

Finally. The "Best of the Web" column is finally back after a 2 week hiatus. I was starting to get withdrawal symptoms. One of the things I dislike about summer (besides the 110 degree heat) is that everyone in the media goes on long vacations. All my favorites at Fox News, local talk show hosts, favorite web destinations, all of them go on breaks. At least this isn't Germany or France, where they would be gone half of the year.

But anyways, if you don't visit "Best of the Web" at OpinionJournal every day, you should. Today, James Taranto (or one of his researchers) found a snippet, I think from Time Magazine (Taranto provides a link), about interrogations on an Al-Qeada operative in Afghanistan and how he had cell phone numbers to a well know Saudi Prince. The Saudi Prince died last year of a heart attack (the prince was the owner of the horse "War Emblem", who won the Kentucky Derby). If anyone has read Tom Clancy's new book, they would have a "WOW!" moment and reread the paragraph. In Clancy's novel, The Teeth of the Tiger, a secret government operation (privately funded though, very cool) goes after a terrorist group and kills them with a drug that makes it looks like they died of a Heart Attack, just like this poor Saudi chap (and a few others apparently). Maybe Clancy knows more than he is letting on? I always thought he was on the forefront of CIA, NSA, et al jargon and operations, and seemed to mix a lot of truths into his stories. How much fiction is he really writing?

Via Little Green Footballs, here is a site from Allah himself. Allah is speaking, so listen. Or else .....

They caught the teenager responsible for the "Blaster.B" virus which knocked out many computer systems over the past few weeks. Something tells me that the kid who they arrested will get a slap on the wrist, then spend some time with the FBI, CIA, and NSA crowd spewing his knowledge on coding, hacking, etc. This kid will probably be employed by one of the government agencies to help with hacking and virus issues. Just like out of a spy or war novel, right?

I feel sorry for California if they elect this guy governor. He is a real piece of work. At least you know where he stands. He'll raise your taxes. He wants to give ILLEGAL immigrants drivers licenses. He belonged to a group that has been compared to the KKK of Hispanic groups. Nice guy. This is the guy you want publicizing the state of California and trying to bring businesses back to California? It looks like my state of Arizona is going to get more emigrants from California.

I see that Israel got rid of another Hamas Terrorist. I see that the Terrorist was riding in a Donkey Cart. I guess the funds Hamas receives aren't like they used to be since the Terrorist couldn't afford an automobile? Or he was trying to "lay low" from the IDF. I guess that didn't work. Usually after one of these strikes, you see pictures of Palestinians jumping on the automobile and yelling threats at Israel. Since there wasn't an automobile involved with this strike, I'm not looking forward to seeing the pictures of the aftermath of this strike. Only Human and Donkey flesh mixed in with wood, straw, and who knows what else. Will PETA complain about the inhumane treatment of the Donkey?

I've been travelling a little lately, so I haven't had time to blog. I'll return later this week.

Are people this desperate? To steal gasoline from a day care van? Come on people. Everyone chill. I always thought you test the character of a society in the toughest of times. New York, Cleveland, and Detroit passed last week during the electical outage (Canada failed - looters in Ottawa). Come on Phoenix, we can do better.

Nice. Try again Kinder Morgan.

The Chandler Little League All-Stars are in the United States semi-finals tonight! Maybe destiny is on their side. If you can, donate money at any Wells Fargo bank to help relieve some of the traveling costs for the families of the players. If your watching them on TV, like I am, $10 or $20 bucks is justified for the entertainment value alone. Help them out if you can.

KFYI has a listing of Gas Stations, that actually are selling gas. The listings may be a little old, but give 'em a try. I always call the gas stations first, before heading out. I use the Yahoo yellow pages to get the phone numbers

I haven't commented on this before, but the Homicide bombings in Israel are making me sick (Warning, graphic photos of children injured in 8/19/03 bombing). Enough is Enough. When are the Palestinian supporters going to finally understand the radical groups of Palestine don't care for peace and only want to KILL innocent women and little kids. This is sick and barbaric. If anyone wants to further their cause, how can they possibly justify this method? Part of the problem in my opinion is that Israel is not allowed to retaliate (guilty - United States) in a manner that could put a dent in the radical’s forces. They just have to rely on a negotiator (Abu Mazan) who is the lackey of Arafat and doesn’t believe the Holocaust actually happened. The United States doesn't negotiate with Terrorists (e.g. Al Qeada and Saddam). Israel shouldn't either. Israel should be allowed to release their dogs of war (who are the best trained in the world), and pretty soon the Palestinian radicals (Terrorists) will either be eliminated or will come crawling back to the negotiating table, with hat in hand (just like Egypt after the 1973 war, and eventually Jordan). Without war, would there be peace between Egypt, Jordan and Israel? I don't think so.