January 21, 2007

• Wow, I can't believe that I went this long without updating. But, I have had a busy few days, working overtime and whatnot. Friday night, I watched a movie that was given to me by a guy I play cards with. Ok, I don't think he actually gave it to me, I mean, I probably have to give it back. Anywho, it was called Loose Change, perhaps you have heard of it, it has received 10 million hits on the internet. It is a very controversial movie about 9/11 and how it was "an inside job". In other words, they say in the movie that Bin Laden was not behind 9/11, but instead a government conspiracy and cover up so that people can make hundreds of millions of dollars. Now those of you that are faithful readers know that I'm about as loyal and passionate Bush hater as they come. But, even I find it hard to believe that Bush was involved in a 9/11 plot. I mean, after all, he is not nearly savvy enough to hatch such an evil scheme. Plus, when he found out about the attacks, he sat there frozen like a deer in headlights without a clue as what to do. The movie does raise a lot of questions and makes a lot of points, and yes, it does make me question things. For example, one thing I have always thought was odd was that the buildings seemed to come down a lot quicker than they should have, I mean, the planes were only in the buildings for a little more then an hour. But, even so, what they suggest in this film is that lots of people............perhaps thousands, would have to be involved in this cover up. And, even with the promise of millions of dollars or the threat of death, that many people can not be silenced for this long. Case in point, they go onto say that United flight 93 did not crash in Pennsylvania. The claim that it landed safely at the Cleveland airport. Ok, if this happened, that means they would have had to fake the deaths of more than 200 people, that is a daunting task even for the United States. If you think about it, planning a terrorist attack on this level would be tough enough for Bin Laden and Al Quada and then to carry it out even tougher. To conspire to do this, complete with blowing up the World Trade Centers after the planes hit them, fake a plane crash into the Pentagon, fake another plane crash, pin the blame on Bin Laden and then cover the whole thing up, this is something of such huge magnitude that it seems impossible. Plus, as I did a little bit of research about the movie online, I found out that a lot of the things they claim in the movie are either not complete truths or very misleading. Lets just pretend for a moment that it is all true. From my stand point, before the movie, I thought Bin Laden was evil and belongs in prison, I believed Bush was evil and belongs in prison and you know what, after the movie, I still feel the same way about both of them. The guys that made the movie were 20 somethings, one of which had just graduated college for film and was by his own admission, pretty much homeless. What better way to get noticed and help your career by doing a movie like this.

  Today was Natalie's 1st birthday party. Natalie is Dave and Kelli's daughter. It was at the rec center and started at 2. I got there pretty much right at 2 and a lot of people were already there. One thing I found odd was that there seemed to be a lot of...............falic type things there. For example, pretzel rods, bananas, and for some reason, a giant jar of whole pickles. I still don't know why there was this damn jar of pickles, I was the only person that had one and there didn't seem to be anything that you would eat with a pickle. We had lasagna and Italian beef and of course tons of sides. The party itself was pretty uneventful, yet still fun. Because people are coming by to watch the Bears game tomorrow (or later today depending on when you read this) we wound up taking much of the food home, including the whole damn jar of pickles, sans the one pickle I ate. What the fuck am I going to do with all this food? I'm starting to think this wasn't a good idea.

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