"wow"
For starters today I've started to enjoy movies way more than I should. I still don't go to a theater by myself though. For instance for nostalgic sake (and to borrow a copy of it) I rented the movie Dark City. Or as I prefer to call it: The Matrix: Film Student's Edition. Because, ya see, it was released to theaters several months before The Matrix to very little fan fare except from people who like movies too much and those who prefer a slightly more cerebral approach to reality than "it's a computer simulation". I'm not necessarily saying it's better than The Matrix, just that it's similar in a lot of ways.
Then tonight for the second time I saw a movie called Equilibrium. According to this site it was apparently released to theaters in very limited release, and has created somewhat of a following (thus a fan site). When I saw it I thought it probably did have something of a cult following. And this movie I have chosen to designate The Matrix: George Orwell Edition or perhaps even better: George Orwell's 1984: Modernized Matrix Adaptation, whatever you prefer. It has an awful lot of extremely slick action and gun play but in, some would say, a way superior to that found in The Matrix itself.
Do I sound expert yet? Truth is I never quite became the obsessed type with The Matrix that those around me apparently did. Also the whole concept and name came from a famous sci-fi book that I can't quite remember the name of at the moment. That movie Equilibrium has inspired me to move on with the short story I started and never picked up again however. I will be moving the address of that story to a sub domain off my newest domain, http://www.supervcrmod.com/. I will post the link as soon as it's ready and make another update...
Now how about today? Ok: I went down to stockton, about 50 miles/an hour's drive away. Usually there's traffic. Anyway I went down there to work for the "famous name-brand investment firm" mentioned in a prior posting to do another hardware refresh. This time I was only there for 9 hours and opposed to 15 or 30 like I'm accustomed to ;-). The day was mostly uneventful, we did have the usual troubles along the way but all-in-all a smooth work day and maybe if the company that I work for ever remembers to pay me I'll some money also.
Lastly I would like to talk about our president and this supposed "partisanship" on his part. To look at the facts the real "partisanship" to speak of really would be his apparent trust the government's intelligence community regarding bad weapons in Iraq and/or his decision to use this as his lynch-pin argument for the war.
Side note...
Lynch-pin argument?! What hell does that mean? I've never heard such a phrase so where did it come from? What's up with that? Man I wish I was nearly so clever as I thought I may have been but wasn't I'd be smart by now (ahhg!)
(end side note)
To put it mildly the President is not at all partisan. I do sometimes grow tired of pointing this out: in 3 1/2 years NOT ONE ITEM VETOED. Does anyone understand this? He got full support for tax cuts. He got full support for the extremely bread war powers immediately following 9/11. He got full support for the war in Iraq. He signed the education bill written by Ted Kennedy. He socialized the entire airport security system after 9/11. Does this sound at all partisan or right wing to anyone?
Ok how about this approach: what would an ideal new Republican president do immediately following getting to office after 8 years of Bill Clinton? Maybe declassify certain documents, making certain things public, open certain cases back up....
What would the ideal "partisan" Republican right-wing President (for the right-wing nuts) do immediately after 9/11? How about aerial drones on the borders and coastlines? Saying "go fuck yourself" to environmentalists and drilling off the both coasts, the Gulf of Mexico and in Alaska and immediately adopting Israel's form of airport/airplane security including highly armed air marshals, saying "go fuck yourself" to any anti-gun nuts out there.
But obviously the President isn't this ideal form of a Republican, and obviously he isn't this much of a partisan. Although I do have another question for ya: if he had done all that stuff I just listed, as crazy as it may or may not sound, how would things be different right now? How could the left hate him any more under those conditions then they do right now? What would be different besides the progress towards "less dependency on foreign oil" that the left supposedly wants so badly?
