Must read: Little Tiny lies, Winds of Change, Calpundit, and Eschaton. Various Topics which I should post on later.

Calpundit posted why we haven't found WMD in Iraq. Why I supported Iraq and still continue to do so has 3 parts: WMD, Saddam acting guilty, and potential of WMD.

Very few people claimed that Saddam had totally shut down his WMD programs and wasn't trying to restart them. Back then, saying Saddam didn't want WMD was like saying the earth was flat, you were an idiot if you believed that.

While this debate was going on, Saddam was acting guilty. Americans have a sense of when people are acting guilty and Saddam was essentially screaming 'I AM HIDING SOMETHING!!!' by his actions. A scenerio that would be compatable would be driving along, getting pulled over by a police officer, and then refusing to walk a straight line... Obviously, something is up with the guy that got pulled over.

Lastly, if we leave Saddam in power, is he going to continue to not be a threat to the US? Will he continue to not try to get WMD and attack the US? He doesn't have the means to attack the US now, but if we leave him alone for another 5 or 10 years, will he get the means and then try something? Is it worth the risk? We tried 11 years to reform him, and he just thumbed his nose at us and flaunted our containment.

Combined, I think there is a compelling case for attacking Saddam. It will be expensive, but I feel that in the long run it will be cheaper than trying to contain him for another 10-20 years.

Which Historical Lunatic Are You?
From the fecund loins of Rum and Monkey.

CNSNews.com has a good piece by Daniel Pipes on what consitutes a moderate Muslim. A must read!

SCSU Scholars weights in on plagerism. Personally, I have never quite understood where copying ends and plagerism ends. Obviously, lifting whole paragraphs is wrong but what about using half a sentance? What about a whole sentance? What about combining 2 sentances from 2 different sources together to make 1 complete sentence? There are all sorts of gray areas that I could never figure out. Oh well, only 3 more semesters to go and then I probibly won't have to worry ever again!

CATO Institude fights against banning alcohol. Instapundit weighs in. I agree with Instapundit. It was funny how I could fly an aircraft, drive a car, and screw as I pleased but I couldn't drink at all... Oh well, noone said the world would be perfect ;)

A Small Victory has an interesting post about flying. I remember the summer of 2002, where I would fly out of Madison. We had an Air National Guard squadron based at the airport. There was a tremendous change in everyone reactions when they took off from when I flew out of Madison in the summer of 2001.

21! VV00+!!!!!!!! Sadly, I missed my powerhour b/c my back hurt like hell (only 21 and the body is already going to hell). Damn :( Oh well, I have the rest of my life to get blasted, no need to hurry. Plus, everyone was out of town this weekend due to it being Turkey Weekend ;)

Also, about the charge of being a 'chicken hawk'. I feel this is a non issue for many bloggers. First, some bloggers have served their time (LT Smash for one). Second, some of the bloggers have lived in times where it was unnecessary to serve (people growing up between the end of Vietnam and now) b/c the goverment didn't ask for their skills. President Bush hasn't asked for more troops from the civilian population. The draft hasn't been restarted. If he askes for more troops from the US population, I would be at the recruiters office tomorrow (probibly air force, I would like to fly those drone aircraft. They look cool and would fit in nicely with my flying training). Why not join up now you might ask? I firmly belive that the US needs my other skills, and that carrying a rifle isn't my calling at this moment in time.

Didn't drink tonight, but I did do laundry! Or, technically, I am currently doing laundry. It has been in the washing machine for the last 2 hours so I am wondering if it ate my clothes. Also did the dishes (or specifically, put the dishes in the dishwasher and turn it on). Cleaning isn't as much fun as it is all cracked out to be.

Class: 1 of 3. Showed up to the all important Weather class *haha* and received my worksheet. Seriously, if the lab continues to be this way I just might as well photo copy my roommate's and then copy his awnsers over. No CSCI 301 or MATH 253. Sadly, I know I didn't miss out on anything. It is bad when you can skip class and not give a shit because it doesn't matter.

I h8 work. Luckily, working on the floor means you have to do jack shit if you plan it out in advance. Also, luckily they pay me some $$$ (which is peanuts but I need the cash). *insert joke about giving 100%*

Lileks has this to say about the California Recall: "04 is going to be bloody, and it’ll be bloodier still after that. This is the sort of stuff that infects the body politic to the point where people demand that we saw off a limb, because the smell is too horrid. This is the stuff that leads to Constitutional Conventions. I’m always slightly chilled when I read a paper from the Center of the American Experiment, because the name reminds you that this is, historically, just that. And as any scientist will tell you: experiments fail."

I shurely hope not, at least to the point where the USA goes down the tubes. Would you live in a USSR with US technology or the US? Experiments fail, but if the US experiment fails what will be the outcome? Would it be a civil war like other countries? If so, civil war with thermonuclear weapons would be a nightmare not even worth contiplating. Ethnic cleansing would take on a new meaning when combined with VX, Anthrax, and dirty bombs. This IS my worst nightmare, the US breaks up in a bloody civil war and the fragments fight it out for territory with the US arsenal. This partially explains my overwhelming support for the war on terror, it isn't that should we win alot of people will be better off. It is that should we lose, hot much destruction will the US dish out before we go down?

How about soem upbeat news? Aviation news: the US will again be in space by the end of the year. This time, by private investors building their own spacecraft. Someday, space travel will be as common as an airliner flight. In the last 100 years, the world went from first learning to fly to the moon. The next century may see humans leaving the solar system. THAT WOULD BE AWSOME!

Day 10 of the bottle of Bacardi Light. If it lasts this week and part of next week, I can afford a bottle of Tquila, and a bottle of vodka... We will need a liquor fridge soon. Life is surprisingly good as a college student.

I tried to wire up Callie's apartment. Failed miserably, took wireing home to do here when I get some extra time (ha, with all of my wonderful free time!). Still need to get back to Rachel to fix her comp (having problems run Java applets, specifically Yahoo Games). Might get some free time this weekend and thus will try that then.

Classes, ugh. Still need to pay for Fall of 02, get finantial aid in, fill out aviation modifier for finintial aid, and register for AVIT 407. This is not in additon to homework and buying books (of which I have none so far). Of course, big O notation doesn't exactly teach itself (sadly) and I don't want to go into the math homework I have been neglecting to do (ungraded, but I am just screwing myself by not doing it).

SCSU aero club website has been partially updated. Brainstormed more about long range plans. Check the aero club website as I get it revised :) That is all I am going to say about that right now, will keep informed as I update it.

I want to shoot my desktop. It isn't working very well and I would like it working at 110%. It needs a good wipe and reinstall, but I don't have all the disks needed to do it. Plus, I forgot that a webpage with a link to a .exe file gives you an option to save, open, cancel, ect. I hope that goes away when I use it as a backround else that is going to drive me up the wall quickly.

One of the card players that I played with today had some interesting news. Needless to say, for my roommate being a virgin his friends awfully screw quite a bit. Lets just say that a one night stand can FUBAR your life...

Drinking, what is it good for? Seriously, I have no clue but somehow it is fun. I am now on day 8 of the bottle of Bacardi light, after sharing some with roommate and roommate's gf. This is the longest a bottle of anything has lasted for me... probibly due to lack of drunk roommate. I have a thing of Margarita mix, now I just need the Tequila... Also, plan to get a thing of vodka to compliment roommate's schnapps.

Unfortunately, roommate and roommate GF needed coaxing to drink (she rarely drinks but roommate is willing when awake and if he isn't going to drive anywhere). So, I pretty much went 1 to 1 with both of them. Luckily, I weight the same as both of them combined, so it wasn't all that bad.

Friday is payday and thus I get Tequila, Vodka, and a case of Sam Adams then. Should be a fun few weeks till I need to restock the fridge with liquids ;) Also, need to talk to roommate about getting some glasses for Margareta and Bloody Marys. Drinking is expensive, but well worth the money if you do it in style. By the end of Christmas season, I hope to have a fully equpped bar. My roommate coined the term "your ass travels in style", and it is true on so many levels. A fully stocked bar at home is only one way to make this true ;)

Also, got two DVD's and a CD carrying case for the car (attaches to the visor) from work (cost $23 total). The DVDs were Office Space and Twelve O'Clock High. Watched both (haven't seen Twelve O'Clock High all the way through but have seen Office Space). Very pleased with both movies. Might get another movie, my collection is starting to grow from the 2-3 I had last winter till the dozen I have now. I have some varity but most of them are older movies that have some political point or have Monty Python type humor. Course, i do have some new action movies that are good, but not that many.

I have been promising roommate to update SCSU Aero Club Website. Obviously, haven't due to imbibing the last few nights before going to sleep. Might get to it tonight, who knows. I pretty much came up with the long term plans, now all I need to do is execute them. Easier said than done... Course, my life isn't made any easier by the fact that my desktop has serious Windows problems (older install and programs are going bad) and my downloads harddrive is full. So, either I go to sleep or I get this shit done.

I remember how I found out about 9/11 like it was yesterday. Due to Michelle's Voices project, I have decided to write it down for others to read. I will post it up later.

I must say in advance, I didn't lose anyone I knew in the tragety but it has turned my life on end. I remember the other false alerts afterword. The nuclear powerplant restrictions and the Terminal Flight Restrictions that continue to today. The fears that the military fighters would shoot to kill without warning if you screwed up. The half jokes of military fighters with cessna kills painted below the windshield. I thank god that I didn't have to make the preflight decision of who fights off the terorists and who flys the aircraft that became unofficial standard practice after 9/11.

The worst was the military drilling out at the airport. The military fighters would scramble and you would get out of their way as they screamed up. You wouldn't know what was going on, just that there was an F-16 on burners that was going someplace in a hurry. You would silently look at them and hope that they were going to return with all their missles.

Flight Level 180 is up! If you are reading this, obviously it is working (if not... WTF?).