If anyone got a chance to watch the State of the Union please share your thoughts. I'm just going to share one topic the President addressed and probably the most notable line from his speech. "America is addicted to oil" was that line. Then he went on to talk about solutions. You know if he's going to implement them then fine. But it sounds like hollow words. In his 2003 State of the Union, he said this "Tonight I'm proposing $1.2 billion in research funding so that America can lead the world in developing clean, hydrogen-powered automobiles. Three years later he says this, "We will increase our research in better batteries for hybrid and electric cars, and in pollution-free cars that run on hydrogen." It's hard to take him seriously, if he's going to do it do it. No difference.  But most Americans when they hear this know no president in the last 30 years has taken it seriously, to me though I still think in three years when we have a new president we will still be addicted to oil a shame for us. Any other thing things that interested or bothered you?

Also on the topic of birthdays, I can recall some of my best birthdays have happened in my pre-teen years. My recent birthday parties haven't been as exciting. So what has been some of her favorite birthday parties?  Of note mine is in two months.

This is just a little fun thing I'm going to throw out there. I always wondered whose hotter Democrats or Republicans. I mean we know they share different views politically. But whose hotter? Honestly as an observer and someone whose an Independent I look at my own campus(Florida Atlantic University) and when I see whose hotter I've come to the determination that Republicans are at least here. I mean the girls who are considered hot on this campus alot of them are Republicans, I do find some Democrats, but mostly Republicans. Granted most of the students here are liberal. Hey who knows if I went to USC it would probably be Democrats. But at your campus it may be different. This is just a fun little thing I'd throw out and nothing else.  

I'm still here and present, I haven't updated lately, sorry. Anyway, I can only post so many topics on politics that even I get tired and trust me you guys know how much I love the political scene and landscape so it might be a little longer in between posts, we'll see anyway. I changed website colors to red(which all of you know is my favorite). Anyway I'm a homebody I don't get out much, but I do get addicted to the internet, but this semester is so-so. I take my two classes World Politics and Research Methods in Politics and go out ever so often. Ok, you don't have to say it I'm not exactly mister excitement. But I am who I am. And you know you guys still love me, don't you! On one political note, the hearings of Samuel Alito concluded and it was a party line vote in the Judiciary Committee, with 10-8 in favor of Alito. The only Democrat whose come out in favor of Alito is Ben Nelson of Nebraska. Probably a few other Dems will vote for him, but the number of votes he will probably get is far less than Roberts, which really is a shame because he does deserve it I feel and remember when a President gets elected he does have the right to what judges he will elect, Bush is conservative and he nominated two conservatives, what did the Democrats expect. Anyway just a political sidenote, take care and continue to have fun.

Physician-assisted suicide in Oregon was upheld 6-3 by the Supreme Court Tuesday. This allows people in Oregon who are mentally competent and diagnosed as terminally ill to continue to have the option of asking a physician to prescribe them with a lethal dose of drugs. More than 200 Oregon residents have relied on the law to end their lives since 1997, when the measure took effect. The high court, in its decision, said former Attorney General John Ashcroft overstepped his authority in November 2001 when he rewrote regulations under the federal Controlled Substances Act making it illegal for Oregon doctors to prescribe drugs to help a patient die.  Justice Anthony Kennedy, who upheld the law,  wrote, "The authority claimed by the attorney general is both beyond his expertise and incongruous with the statutory purposes and design," The idea that Congress gave the attorney general such broad and unusual authority through an implicit delegation in the [Controlled Substances Act's] registration provision is not sustainable." Justice Antonin Scalia, who dissented(along with Justice Clarence Thomas and John Roberts), said, "Virtually every medical authority from Hippocrates to the current American Medical Association confirms that assisting suicide ... is not a 'legitimate' branch of that science and art.""If the term 'legitimate medical purpose' has any meaning, it surely excludes the prescription of drugs to produce death." This has caused states like Vermont and California to have bills pending in their legislature and has caused Washingtion to consider doing the same. But its unlikely to pass, considering the Terri Schiavo controversy from last year.

Speaking of Vermont they have been in the news recently because of Judge Edward Cashman's ruiling to only give a 6 month sentence to a man who raped a girl for four year until she was 10 years old(she's now 11).  With all due offense if this was Florida that sicko who did that to that poor girl would have gotten probably 25 years. We would have layed the rule of law down to this subhuman. Anyone who would rape a child under any circumstances gets no forgiveness from me and I don't consider him human. That judge needs to reexamine his priorites. This girl isn't going to be the same, this is going to haunt her for the rest of her life and this creep gets a free pass by only serving six months. They say he is a low-risk offender excuse me are they nuts. Anyone who rapes a girl deserves to serve hard time. This all comes down to treatment for the criminal(which is totally absurd) no treatment is going to stop him from doing this possibily to another child. This proves whether your a conservative or liberal judge you can pose a ridiculous ruiling. This judge of all things is conservative, what happened to stiff justice for hardened criminals, I guess both sides get it wrong. Also where are the politicians and organizations on the left and the right, I have heard hardly anything from them. Its very sad when you need news commentators, like Bill O'Reilly who has been on this judge and on this idiotic ruiling, why can't our constituents in D.C. help fight this injustice?

I hope all of you had a good first week of classes. Mine was alright, enjoy the holiday weekend. I liked the Research Methods in Political Science class, it deals with analysis of graphs and surveys and so forth. World Politics I think will be a learning process on what other countries are all about. I would talk politics, but the Samuel Alito hearings were so polarizing back and forth, listening to Ted Kennedy make a fool of himself, listening to both the liberal and conservative commentators analyze it made me want to barf.  Like they really know what we think what a bunch of crap! Anyway just thought I'd check in hope to hear from you guys and like I said have a fun semester or to put to you in lamen terms just try and survive. Hope some of you are still out there.

Well first day back to class, yes the Christmas vacation seemed like it would never end, but it did. What can I say it was a class, World Politics, teacher was alright students seemed humdrum although it was just the first day so that's a rash decision. Tomorrow is  Research Methods in Political Science so then I'll get a drift on how both classes are and by the end of the week hopefully I'll know if I'm back in the college mode. I don't doubt that I won't be. I hope all of you are getting back in the college spirit or to put it much better just getting back to college life in general.

Moving on, there's this new book out by Kate O'Beirne that is called Women Who Make the World Worse: and How the Radical Feminist Assault Is Ruining Our Schools, Families, Military, and Sports. Take a guess where she stands on feminism, not positively I promise you. In a interview about the book she says that men make up 54% of the workforce, but account for 92% of job-related deaths. Jobs that are flexibile, fullfilling, and safe pay less. She goes on to say that feminists hate it when that happens. She says that its a fable that women are denied equal pay for equal work.  Saying that disparities in wages exist between women and children and men and single women. And that this is not sex discrimination, but if that were better understood feminists would have to get real jobs. She talks about in the book that a celebrated feminist dismisses the surveys reporting that married women are happier than single women by attributing their contentment to being "slightly mentally ill." She continues by saying that the moral intimidation feminists inflict on men means that other women have to take on the modern, destructive women's movement. Those are just some of the things she goes on to say about the feminist movement and in her eyes is ruining America. I am not a fan of feminism, but then again that's just me. If you want to know more you can read the book(I haven't read it), feminists will be sure to hate it beyond belief, but you can still read it.

Bill O'Reilly went on David Letterman's show Tuesday night and got a little more than he expected. I'll give you short bits of what happened.

Letterman: Well, and you should be very careful with what you say also.

O'Reilly: Give me an example.

Letterman: How can you possibily take exception with motivation and the position of someone like Cindy Sheehan?

O'Reilly: Because I think she's run by far-left elements in this country. I feel bad for this woman.

Letterman: Have you lost family members in armed conflict?

O'Reilly: No, I haven't.

Letterman: Well, then you can hardly speak for her, can you?

O'Reilly: I'm not speaking for her. Let me ask you this question.

(Letterman goes back to his war on Christmas reference: Let's go back to your little red and green stories.

O'Reilly: This is important, this is important. Cindy Sheehan lost a son, a professional solider in Iraq, correct? She has a right to grieve any way she wants, she has a right to say whatever she wants. When she says to the public that the insurgants and terrorists are "freedom fighters", how do you think, David Letterman, that makes people who lost loved ones, by these people blowing the Hell out of them, how do you think they feel, what about their feelings, sir?

(Letterman goes on to talk about why are we in Iraq to begin with and redebates O'Reilly on Cindy Sheehan.)

Letterman: I'm not smart enough to debate you point to point on this but I have the feeling, I have the feeling about 60 percent of what you say is crap. But I don't know that for a fact.

Paul Shafer: 60 percent.

Letterman: 60 percent. I'm just spit-balling here.

O'Reilly: Listen, I respect your opinion, you should respect mine.

Letterman: Well, I -- I-- OK.

O'Reilly: Our analysis is based on the best evidence we can get.

Letterman: Yeah, but I think there's something, this fair and balanced, I'm not sure that it's -- I don't think that you represent an objective viewpoint.

O'Reilly: You have to give me an example if you're going to make those statements.

Letterman: Well, I don't watch your show, so that would be impossible.

O'Reilly: Then why would you come to that conclusion if you don't watch the program?

Letterman: Because of things that I've read, that that I know.

O'Reilly: Your going to take things that you've read? Do you know what they've said about you? Come on. Watch it for -- look, look, watch it for a half an hour, you'll get addicted, you'll be a Factor fan. We'll send you a hat.

  O'Reilly also talked about the war on Christmas with him as well. Today on his radio show he said Letterman is a card-carrying member of the "secular progressive movement." First I believe it is wrong for someone to say that there not objective if they have never watched that person. You do have to give examples to backup your claim. I think O' Reilly does fair analysis, he may go to far on some issues, but he knows what he's talking about most of the time. Though I did hear him say the students who shouted down Ann Coulter were Nazis, he said that he said they were using Nazi-like tactics. But I watched the show and the repeats, O' Reilly made a mistake. But all journalists make mistakes, I thought it was wrong, those students were immature, he should of apologized. But one incident doesn't define who he is.  I also think that O'Reilly was right to criticize Cindy Sheehan, I felt sympathy for her but my last draw to turn me aganist her was her cheering after a protest like she was proud, I had no sympathy for her after that. I do feel for her but you don't call terrorists freedom fighters and you don't align yourself with Michael Moore(by posting on his website). Letterman was fair when it came to the Iraq debate and when they were talking about the war on Christmas(like Letterman it doesn't bother me, but I still think one exists, unlike him.) I had my say. How about you?

By the way congrats to Texas on beating USC 43-38 last night and stoping them from winning a third national championship. I wish people though would stop saying that's the greatest game ever. Nice try. But both teams have horribile defenses and at least the Rose Bowl game from 2003(my Miami Hurricanes vs Ohio State) had good defenses and that's what made it a better game, even if we lost. Oh, the Miami Hurricanes of 2001 could stop both those teams(well at least contain them), Vince Young wouldn't have put up the 200 yards he did and they would have contained Leinhart of USC. But I'm not taking way anything from Texas's victory congratulations. You won't repeat though.

So for the past two days I've been consumed by AIM(goalofmine). It's cool, kind of takes me away from Xanga a little bit. I've had some good conversations(I call them confabs). I like it. Getting personal about my life and their life, it's different for me. But it works and you find out interesting things. Anyway I know one thing in any of Alexia's comments she won't write when are you going to get an AIM lol.  I'm just joking with you. Anyway I still can't believe The University of Miami Hurricanes fired four of there coaches. I mean sure they got an ass whipping by LSU on Friday 40-3. But let's get our head's on here. Losing coaches means you lose top recruits to other schools that you normally would get the better of. Bad. Larry Coker has done a lot of good things, win a championship, almost win a second, have good winning seasons, but this is horribile especially for recruiting, which we always get the better of.

I hope each of you had a fun New Year and welcome to 2006. Just something I'd share, about three minutes or so before the ball was going to drop for 2006 I made my resolution for 2006, it was to be a better person and to hope God was on my side. I know corny, especially since I'm not really that religious.  But I also paid tribute to the victims of the hurricanes(Katrina and Rita) and to the fallen soliders who died in 2005 and to the many people suffering in Africa. Why? I don't know. I just said outloud to pay tribute to all these people and I wanted to get it in before the year ended. But I still don't know why. But I won't fight it, I guess I just feel lucky in where I am in life compared to so many others. I don't know if I'll do it before 2007, probably not.  I won't make any predictions for 2006, I think it's stupid, just let life flow the way it is, what happens happens. All in all I'm feeling good though.

First thing I usually never wake up at this time, especially when I have time off, I woke up a little over a hour and a half ago. It's not a full time thing trust me. But I'm awake and I feel refreshed. Anyway since it's the end of the year and 06' will be hear in a couple of days I hope each and everyone of you had a great 05' I know some of you had some setbacks you would like to forget and some of you have had some absolutely great things happen this year. Well all this best in 06' from me. I'm getting to sentimental aren't I lol. People say they will have certain things they plan they want to get accomplished before the beginning of each year but I've never been a big fan of it. So I never set goals, I just go with the flow, heck either one of these I have no problem with because everyone's different and we all should go about things our own way.

Just a final note before the countdown of 05 ends I hope each and everyone one of you enjoyed my Xanga for the year. I hope to improve(if you have any suggestions) but basically I just hope when your reading you don't feel like going back to your website within the first 30 seconds. Also I like each and everyone of your site's I go on(that's no BS) each and everyone of you have different sites that diversify from each other. I'll try to make my comments better(but I'll still continue my joking manner, you can't control that) and I'll try to be respectful to each and everyone of you.  Until 06' have a Happy New Year!