I didn't get my chocolate mits on an Xbox 360, so what did I do with those gift cards? Well, they've been burning a hole in my pocket for the last 30 days so I decided to set them free. I am the proud new owner of the new Sirius Radio S50 reciever! For those of you unfamiliar with this device, take a look at this link. http://www.sirius.com/gs/s50/.

Jealous, aren't you? This thing is AWESOME? Ever wanted to pause, record, fast forward, or rewind that song you were listening to on the radio? Well, now I can! It can record up to 50 hours of Sirius programming and you can even download your own mp3 files from your pc! XM has a similiar product and theirs even has a built in reciever, but the thing is you can't get reception in doors so the built in reciever loses some of it's gloss. I would much rather have a smaller lighter unit, and compared to the XM version this thing is tiny! It's got to weigh less than 2 to 3 ounces and that's with the battery installed. I haven't had a lot of time to play with it yet, but I'm pretty sure it's a keeper.

There is one more benefit to me getting this new toy. You "Sizzletronics" are the proud new owner of my previous Sirius reciever! And I'm even paying for your first year of service! The only caveat is that you must promise to install it right away. All you need to buy is a universal mounting bracket, and they can be found at Circuit City or Best Buy for about $19.99. I have everything you need, such as the antenna, car kit, remote, and ciggarete adapter. I am even throwing in my home adapter so you can hook it up to your home stereo. You've been a great friend over the years and this is just another way to show my thanks. Enjoy!

DT Money

Well, I gave it my best, but I guess my best wasn't good enough. Anyone know the name of the song and the artist that line came from? Hint: He's black. Anyway, I did everything but camp out in front of a retail store to get my mits on an Xbox 360 and today I'm giving up. I've burned up so much gas, spent countless hours loitering in stores, and placed at least 50 phone calls trying to get one, and now I'm burned out. If someone told me tomorow morning that I was guaranteed one if I showed up at Best Buy at 9:00 AM, I would take a pass. After reading countless reviews of the Xbox 360 launch and all of it's games, it occurred to me that this system may not be worth the hype after all. Which leads me to believe this "artificial shortage" was created by Microsoft to build excitement for a machine that may not have garnered this same excitment on it's own merits.

I'm sure that I will be able to walk into most retail stores in January and pick up a system, and while it may not be the "Premium", I will be able to say that I didn't fall for Microsofts tricks. Oh, and Microsoft, the PS3 is right around the corner, so maybe this shortage wasn't such a good idea afterall?

DT Money

So Friday night is just as boring as Tuesday night for me anymore. I spent most of my evening in the bathroom pulling tile of the walls. How fun is that? That stuff is like 40 years old or something. Anyways, after that I cleaned up the kitchen and washed some dishes. I think I am gonna put on my favorite outfit and grab a bottle of the good stuff and call it a night. In case you're wondering what I mean by call it a night, check out the pic below.

So yesterday in Bush’s Iraq "Victory Plan" speech, he talked about a letter that was found on the laptop of Corporal Jeffrey B. Starr. Below is an excerpt of Bush’s speech.

"One of those fallen heroes is a Marine Corporal named Jeff Starr, who was killed fighting the terrorists in Ramadi earlier this year. After he died, a letter was found on his laptop computer. Here's what he wrote, he said, "[I]f you're reading this, then I've died in Iraq. I don't regret going. Everybody dies, but few get to do it for something as important as freedom. It may seem confusing why we are in Iraq, it's not to me. I'm here helping these people, so they can live the way we live. Not [to] have to worry about tyrants or vicious dictators_. Others have died for my freedom, now this is my mark."

Here is what FOX News will not tell you about Jeffrey B. Starr.

Cpl. Jeffrey B. Starr, rejected a $24,000 bonus to re-enlist. Corporal Starr believed strongly in the war, his father said, but was tired of the harsh life and nearness of death in Iraq. So he enrolled at Everett Community College near his parents' home in Snohomish, Wash., planning to study psychology after his enlistment ended in August.

But he died in a firefight in Ramadi on April 30 during his third tour in Iraq. He was 22.

Sifting through Corporal Starr's laptop computer after his death, his father found a letter to be delivered to the marine's girlfriend. "I kind of predicted this," Corporal Starr wrote of his own death. "A third time just seemed like I'm pushing my chances."

Already on his third tour by age 22. Think about that for a while.

Check out this link. This girl is bad ass. The thing is, she never gets naked or even shows any naughty parts. It doesn't matter. She is too hot not to share with you.

I need to get my hands on one of these. I totally think my wife would be down for it. In fact I am sure of it.

I finally got around to seeing this movie the other night on DVD.  Didn’t really have the desire to see it in the theater.  Anyways, here’s my take on the movie.

The first thing I noticed when I first saw the trailers for this movie was that it seemed “creepy” to me.  Maybe not the whole movie, but the at least the facial expressions and eyes of the characters.  I know that the budget for this movie ($150M) was twice as high as Shrek 2 and that this movie was intended to look as real as possible.  I also know that the characters were filmed and motion captured.  The problem is, I would have rather seen a live action movie using the actors.  You could have saved about 1/3 of the budget for the movie and still had the fantastic scenery, colors, and backgrounds.  I mean, if you’ve already commissioned someone to act, then why not put it on film?  It seems like more time would go into motion capture and translating to CGI than making a traditional movie.  I know that animated movies will draw larger audiences and that children tend to respond better as well.  However, as advanced as this movie is, it still shows how far away we are from realistic animation.  I got the feeling watching this movie that the close up shots of the characters would look better from a distance, or without staring at it.  Kinda like how Madden and NCAA football games look now.  The non-character stuff is probably the best looking animation I’ve ever seen though.  The train and snow look amazing.  The physics used in scenes with snow drifting and wind look incredible.  
     Having never read the book I must say that I enjoyed the story.  I don’t know how faithful it is to the book, but I get the sense that it must be very close.  I base this on the way the movie has been advertised for both the theater and the DVD release.  I don’t think I heard anyone ever say that the movie wasn’t true to the children’s book.  My biggest beef with the store was how fast it seemed to wrap up at the end.  Once Santa took off, there was like 10 minutes left.  All this adventure, all these twists and then BOOM!  Santa gives him a bell which he loses on the way home.  He wakes up the next day and finds the bell in a present.  Yay!  I believe in Santa Claus!  I would have liked to see at least one more peril on the way home.  Just to see if he could make it back in time for the morning.  
     I liked the music.  In fact, the more I listen to the movie play at home, the more catchy it seems.  I have a 2 year old son who has been playing it for 3 days now in case you were wondering what I mean by that.  The songs are Christmas-y.  Even the traditional songs that are played in the movie feel right for it.  It’s not something that I would personally play to get in the holiday mood, but I would not mind if I heard one or two songs here and there.
     This is the kind of movie where the DVD extras are worth watching.  I have yet to watch any of them, however, I thoroughly enjoy “special features” on movies.  I want to see how this movie was made more than I want to watch the movie again.  
     I probably sound like I didn’t enjoy the movie a great deal, whereas I actually did like it quite a bit.  In writing reviews for movies, I always seem to pick at movies or rave about them.  In this case, I found more to pick at than I did to rave about.

On a scale of 1-10, I give the movie a 6.
  

After nearly three years and 2,110 U.S. troop fatalities, the Bush administration finally releases what it calls a “National Strategy for Victory in Iraq”. The problem is, it’s nothing new. “Ladies and gentlemen, behold… A PR document!”

The strategy describes what has transpired in Iraq so far as a resounding success and still refuses to establish any standards for accountability. It dismisses serious problems such as the dramatic increase in bombings as “metrics that the terrorists and insurgents want the world to use.” Americans know that it’s time for a new course in Iraq.

In the end, this document is only a 38 page book to justify W's plan to "stay the course.”

Bullshit.

By the way, why do people tell me that we are “winning the war?”  What war?  I thought we were liberating Iraq!    I thought we were doing anything but fighting a war.

• Looking for WMDs


• Reform the Greater Middle East


• Liberate the Oppressed


• Protect Integrity of the U.N.


• Fight Them Abroad So We Don’t Face Them At Home


• Pursuing the Policy of Previous Administration


• Removing a State Sponsor of Terror

The number of seconds it took President Bush to reference September 11 in this morning’s Iraq speech.

A speech about Iraq should have nothing to do with September 11th. I'm only gonna say this one more time.

IRAQ HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH 9.11.01

Click to enlarge. Duh.

"The Democratic Party seems to be taken over by the Michael Moore contingent in their attitude toward Vietnam, and they continually call for a withdrawal of troops at a time when we haven't finished the job."

- Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah on FOX News (Monday November 28th, 2005)

VIETNAM? Dumbass.

Read Hatch refers to Iraq as Vietnam

This dude obviously loves his car. I mean looooves it.

Image most likely NSFW if someone is walking by.

Have a look-see.

"Every company in America should be on its knees thanking Jesus for being born. Without Christmas, most American businesses would be far less profitable. More than enough reason for business to be screaming 'Merry Christmas.' But many will not. They're afraid of being attacked by secular forces. It is now time to draw the line, ladies and gentlemen. We must decide whether we value our heritage or not. ... George Soros and Peter Lewis, the money men behind the secular curtain, have financed a number of websites which routinely attack those with whom they disagree in the most vile ways.”

-Bill O’Reilly

Thanks for trivializing the birth of Jesus, Bill. Go suck a dildo.

So much for "returning diginity and morality to the White House." Yet another high ranking Republican succumbs to greed! I love it!


http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20051128/ap_on_go_co/congressman_s_house

I am thinking about taking my next day off of work and going to have my name changed. I think I might change my middle name to "Precision". Sounds tight doesn't it? I might toss a few more names around before I go. Maybe "Lights Out". I don't know if I want the same name as a professional boxer. Who knows... I like "Never Cease" too. Here are a few names I am pondering. What do you think? Leave me a message with your feedback.

01) Precision
02) Lights Out
03) Never Cease
04) Sustain
05) Assault
06) Sustained Assault
07) Giver of Head Trauma
08) Taykashitt
09) Man-E-Faces
10) Herman

If you don't want to read this whole thing, then I will summarize.

ROVE=F*CKED

...But those close to the probe tell RAW STORY that Fitzgerald obtained documentary evidence showing that other unrelated calls transferred to Rove’s office by the switchboard were logged. He then called Ralston back to testify.

Earlier this month, attorneys say Fitzgerald received additional testimony from Ralston -- who said that Rove instructed her not to log a phone call Rove had with Cooper about Plame in July 2003...

...Ralston also provided Fitzgerald with more information and “clarification” about several telephone calls Rove allegedly made to a few reporters, including syndicated columnist Robert Novak, the lawyers said.

Two things are clear, the sources said: either Rove will agree to enter into a plea deal with Fitzgerald or he will be charged with a crime, but he will not be exonerated for the role he played in the leak...

EDIT: Sorry, had to shorten the article for people on mobile devices. Plus, there was way too much in the post anyways.

To read an entire article relevant to this post, click here.

Abuse worse than under Saddam, says Iraqi leader

Human rights abuses in Iraq are now as bad as they were under Saddam Hussein and are even in danger of eclipsing his record, according to the country's first Prime Minister after the fall of Saddam's regime.'People are doing the same as [in] Saddam's time and worse,' Ayad Allawi told The Observer. 'It is an appropriate comparison. People are remembering the days of Saddam. These were the precise reasons that we fought Saddam and now we are seeing the same things.'In a damning and wide-ranging indictment of Iraq's escalating human rights catastrophe, Allawi accused fellow Shias in the government of being responsible for death squads and secret torture centres. The brutality of elements in the new security forces rivals that of Saddam's secret police, he said....Allawi's bleak assessment is likely to undermine any attempt to suggest that conditions in Iraq are markedly improving.'We are hearing about secret police, secret bunkers where people are being interrogated,' he added. 'A lot of Iraqis are being tortured or killed in the course of interrogations. We are even witnessing Sharia courts based on Islamic law that are trying people and executing them.'

The way I see it is this:  At least we stopped Saddam over there instead of over here.  And at least he didn’t share the WMD’s (that he didn’t have) with the terrorists (that he was not connected to).  Yay!

"You allowed your fighters to be laid down facing west and burned. You are too scared to retrieve their bodies. This just proves you are the lady boys we always believed you to be.''

The two officers who ordered the burning of the bodies were reprimanded for lacking cultural and religious sensitivity. The muslim faith does not permit the cremation of dead bodies. The two soldiers responsible for recording a message boasting about the act of the burning and broadcasting it on loudspeakers will face non-judicial punishment, which may include a loss of pay or demotion in rank.

The US army investigation concluded that there was no intent to desecrete the bodies as the intention behind the burnigs were hygenic reasons. No criminal charges were pressed against any of the soldiers involved. Although Kandahar governor Asadullah Khalid expressed his confidence into the investigation, religious leaders have criticised its findings and called for more severe punishment of the soldiers involved.

Hygenic. We even have the actual context of the message and they still think that there was no intent to desecrate. I'd like to see what would actually constitute desecration.

What if I told you that the driver's license of every US cititzen is available for viewing on the internet? Sound too stupid to believe? Well check out this link. I would suggest that you click on the box to opt out of this "service" to have it removed for public viewing. You would think they would be smart enough to block out the Social Security Number, right? Wrong! Homeland Security at it's finest.


http://www.license.shorturl.com/

So I threw this really hip party the other night. Just me and like 200 of my closest friends. It was at the local bar. We were dancing to what most people call techno. Now I have a problem when people call any electronic music “techno”. Most people don’t really know that not all electronic music is called techno. That is actually a form of electronic music. There are lots of types of electronic music: Progressive, House, Drum & Bass (D&B), Techno, Trance, etc.

What was I trying to say? Oh yeah. This party. Well, I think that some people must have had something alcoholic to drink or perhaps they were on ecstasy or something. Why do I say this? Hmmm. Well, for starters people were dancing very close to each other. Very close. When I say very close, I mean that they were fornicating on the dance floor. This party had some next level shit going on. There were naked women and dudes everywhere. I saw fellatio. I saw what the kids call a “train”. I swear this all happened too! Don’t believe me? I took along my video camera. I always have it on me in case something goes down and I want to prove it later. Watch this for yourself. NSFW! I put that on here because there are ding-dongs all over the place. Tell me about the craziest party you’ve ever been to.

What a classy lady.   I would love to make out with her.  And hug her.  Maybe I just wanna kick her face in.  I don’t know.  I’m just torn.  What would you do to her?

Holy cow! Why haven’t I seen this on television?

A "trophy" video appearing to show security guards in Baghdad randomly shooting Iraqi civilians has sparked two investigations after it was posted on the internet, the Sunday Telegraph can reveal.
The video has sparked concern that private security companies, which are not subject to any form of regulation either in Britain or in Iraq, could be responsible for the deaths of hundreds of innocent Iraqis.

Bring these guys home now before they ruin everything for us. I’m not against the troops. I am against them being in Iraq. Not only are we there for the wrong reasons, but it just keeps getting uglier and uglier. No wonder the world hates us. These soldiers deserve everything they have coming to them.

Read the rest of the article here.

Watch the video here.

EDIT: To be specific, these are NOT soldiers from the US. They are contracted security guards. Regardless, I am still 100% on bringing our troops home. NOW.