Kosovo has declared its independence. As you know its had de facto independence from Serbia since 1999 NATO air strikes. 16,000 NATO troops are stationed in Kosovo to protect it from Serbia, which has declared the declaration of independence "illegal." Serbia has vowed to fight the independence by giving any state that recognizes Kosovo a ( Read more... )

   Firstlyofall, it should be noted that it is Talk like a Pirate Day. Y'arr.

Yesterday at work during my deck-scrubbing shift we conducted more industrial espionage cunning dastardly tricks, and also Captain Davey bought $500 of lobster traps (not a pirate euphemism). Lobster season starts on the 29thieth and we plan to be out on the water at ( Read more... )

   It has occured to me, that IF Hillary Clinton were to be elected President, that would mean that for 24 years the Presidency will have had been held by two immediate families.

Is this not rather alarming? And why haven't I heard the media point this out?

And They're Off!
   We already have postings by Xiositecte, ironlioninzion, bartgroks, beastmario, eazyt, and (sort of) Pavel_lishin. Additionally, forrest441, alonemirage2see, witless_nerd, abunchofcrap and the uncorruptable blueliquid13 (and of course add emosnail to the list) have pledged, implied, or drunkenly cursed themselves to participate. And you should too!

And now its time for a game of...
Guess My Political Affilitiation!!   Once upon a time, the minutes ( Read more... )

   Okay its time for some voting. I should have told you how to vote earlier but well, I procrastinated. Anyway, I'm going to tell you how to vote on some of the issues now. You should probably abstain on everything I don't give you guidance about here =D

Davis Issues
Measures H & L - AKA Sacramento Municipal Utilities District (SMUD) seizure ( Read more... )

The Gazebo Incident
   Three years ago today there was no entry. Thats because at the time I was in the hospital due "blunt head trauma" due to getting kicked in the head while unconscious due to a lucky hit one of three guys who jumped me in a park got on my temple.

We had leads on who these people were, but officer Calvin Chang declined to ( Read more... )

   So this is the weekend that traditionally I chair at the CCCPMUN (Contra Costa County Model United Nations) Conference. Much as we know I love MUN, after some very serious debate I decided to go on the Seattle road trip this weekend with Rob Roy & co. For the first time in four years or so I didn't go the the CCCPMUN conference ( Read more... )

   So I woke up this morning filled with regret over somethign I'd done the night before. Filled with regrets and second-thoughts. And my internet access was down so I couldn't see how bad it was, but I had a feeling that I'd written a rash and overly saucy theological rant the night before. Anyway I finally got around to looking it (in the ( Read more... )

   So yesterday I'm standing outside the Ralph Nader speaking event talking to noted republican George Andrews when on the subject of politics someone I don't know says to me "you're an anarchist aren't you?" Then aggie reporter Stan Obklobzija asked me if I knew where rabid communist John Green1 was and if I had anything to do with the Nader ( Read more... )

   While eating my breakfast of pizza at 1pm this morning and reading Time magazine, I had another revelation, one I think may be more controversial than my anticlimatic subsidy declaration:

( Al-queda & Iraq )